So, just at update, the budget is rather limited at this time of year so I am going to save my pennies until I can find a sporran that I am really crazy about. I went on ahead and bought a brown closeout/blemished sporran from Stillwater Kilts which will suffice for right now. I think I got pretty lucky because the "blemish" is only a very very very small area on the front where the color is slightly darker than the rest of the sporran. Thanks for all of your suggestions (I now have several of the sporrans you guys have shown me on my kilt accessory wish list )
Oh, as an aside, my girlfriend (NOT a fan of my wearing the kilt) has asked her dad if he would make a sporran for me for Christmas. Awesome! He wants to make part of it out of a turtle shell or something- should be interesting... (Yes, I will definitely post pictures however it turns out!)