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placemat bag What do you get when you look at a placemat in a whole new way?
Well, a bag for Darfur, of course! I added buttons for some surprise texture.
The green velvety goodness on the bag body is already a textural paradise. It's a happy bag; employing two of my favourite colours- turquoise and green. (And orange! Makes three... but who's counting?)
10 x 11 inches.
Who will start our auction off with $35.00 Canadian? We'll wrap it up tomorrow morning, April 8. at 7:00 am. (My second teen-ager gets launched on that very day!)
Posted by joyce at 5:37 PM 
It makes me happy.

April 7, 2009 at 8:20 AM 
Your bags are all so beautiful Joyce. Thanks for adding some colour to my otherwise colourless life. Sorry I didn't show last night.

April 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM gophercheeks said...

Oh my...ooohhhh my!!
This bag is just so juicy!!! I could paint my house with those colors!!!!

I just have to say that I think this bag is too wonderful and brilliant to be presented on Tightwad Tuesday. Joyce... I just love this bag!!

April 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM Rana and Yvan said...

Oh I love this bag!!!! I have to bid on it - $37

April 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM 
Really cute. $50.


April 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM April 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM 
Oh no Karen!!!! :) Come on! I have been trying for one of these bags forever! Sigh!

$52 :)

April 7, 2009 at 12:01 PM 
Uh oh Rana. We might have to arm wrestle for it. :)

I may bid again tonight, but if it helps, I am never up before 7:30am, so if you're an early riser (and bidder), I can't possibly win!


April 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM shaunak said...

It is a lovely bag, Joyce!
I would bid, but I know that Rana needs somewhere to store her referral photos that are going to arrive this week. So I am going to hope she gets it - the referral and the bag :)!

April 7, 2009 at 2:30 PM 
This bag is so springy looking...I would like to bid $55.

April 7, 2009 at 3:36 PM 
I'm not sure about the time difference, not sure if I'm too late, but I'm up, so I'll try $60.


April 8, 2009 at 6:58 AM 
well, you couldn't have planned that any better- two minutes to deadline!

Send me an e-mail to email@example.com with your mailing address and I'll fill you in on the rest.

April 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM 



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I've always been a scrounger. Raised by a frugal prairie farm woman who reduced, reused, and recycled long, looooong before it was trendy; I've come into the concept of re-purposing honestly. I am silly-in-love with anything vintage-ish, and am powerless against it when I discover it stacked on card tables in someone's garage, or stale and lonely in a thrift shop.

As a responsible consumer, here's what you can feel good about:

*the bags are fashioned from recycled fabrics purchased at thrift shops, garage sales, and fabrics donated by generous supporters.

* Most of the thrift shops are themselves humanitarian aid fund raisers.

*while keeping this stuff out of the landfills, you get to enjoy little pieces of history. Fabrics that used to function as tableclothes, aprons, bedspreads, sheet sets, coats.... Well, you get the idea.

*the proceeds of the project are intended for food aid to people in camps in and around the Sudan via the United Nations World Food Programme.

The bags are distributed in "good faith"; the fabrics within each piece can not be warranteed due to their unknown fiber contents. I myself treat my bags with little caution- throwing them in the wash, hanging them on the line to dry. I cannot offer any guarantees though, and do not offer refunds or returns; although I am certainly willing to do reasonable repairs. Although in a sense one is purchasing a bag, the bigger vision is to partner in feeding the hungry.
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