Don't waste time- GO!!

Eleven bags posted Saturday morning.
Going, going, going....

What's left is:
Orange and Blue
Bye bye Birdie
Exotic
Velvet Kisses

Go on! Don't dawdle now!
Get them while they're fresh.

Orange and Blue: SOLD! to roofie's friend...Lexi

The grey piece with the characters (Inuit?) has been in my stash for years now. I bought it at a yard sale in Brandon and liked it too much to just impulsively use it on any old thing. Well, its day has come, and it'll look terrific on your shoulder. I've always found blue with orange to be an irresistable combination.



The plaid is a men's shirt. The pocket sits underneath the flap, and would work well for a phone or a set of keys. There's a big pocket on the inside as well.

$25.00 for Darfur.
paypal accepted.

button flowers: SOLD!

Can't get enough of those flowery buttons.

Large tote.

Full of summery fun.

$25.00

paypal accepted.

Exotic: Sold to J Hildebrandt.

Not as big as a messenger bag- more of a handbag.
Cut from a table cloth in bright pinks, turquoise, and floral stems.
Vintage button accents.

$20.00 for Darfur.

Cover Me With Velvet Kisses: SOLD!

Bright blue floral upholstery fabric.

Turquoise and gold velvet bits.

Bye Bye Birdie:Sold to sister Laura!

This adorable birdie is coming off the table. She has been paired up with an orange table cloth, some delicious blue and orange vintage, a piece of geometric blue, and more of the birdie tablecloth inside for pockets.

Two big pockets inside. One medium and one small pocket underneath the flap.

A geometric blue pocket on the right side, perfect size for a cell phone.

$25.00 for Darfur.

Paypal accepted.

Love her Like a Child SOLD!

This amazing fabric got discovered in St Pierre thrift shop. I nearly had cardiac arrest, utterly overcome was I. For a few weeks, I had to just stare at it, and fondle it, and occasionally drool upon it.

But now I'm ready to share.
The inside has four small pockets, two of which came off a favourite pair of khaki capris.

I personally recommend this bag.

$25.00 for Darfur.

Paypal accepted.

Deep and Delicious: SOLD!!

This bag is sooooo rich.
One large and one medium pocket inside.

$25.00 for Darfur.
Paypal accepted.

Folky Funk: SOLD!

This is the last of my tie-dyed picnic blanket. It's been dressed up with pockets off of a turquoise apron, and pockets from a splashy floral apron in vivid shades of pink, blue, yellow, and green. (seven pockets in total!)

She's got all my favourite stuff on her- turqoise, floral 70's sheets, velvet, funky camper curtain fabric and serious durability to boot.

You can't wear this bag without getting happy.

$25.00 for Darfur.

Paypal accepted.

Cozy Like a Campfire: SOLD!

Sold!

A heavy gold, brown, and auburn upholstery fabric softened with batik green, gold velvet, and soft brown corduroy.

Two big pockets inside, and two medium.

Grunthal Meets St Pierre: SOLD!

SOLD!
The blue floral upholstery fabric was rescued from the Grunthal thrift store. It looks like someone was trying to recover chairs and finally gave up, so now YOU get to wear it on your shoulder instead! I dressed up the humble blue floral with some gold and turqoise velvet that I found in the more worldly community of St Pierre. They seem to be getting along remarkably well.

















*The buttons are from my tiny stash of baubles.*
They are layered and really add a fun element.

Inside you will find a large pocket, and two medium sized pockets.

Get it while the Mennonites and Catholics are still in harmony.*

paypal accepted.

$25.00 for Darfur.

A Few of my Favourite Things: SOLD!

Turqoise and green, with some happy splashes of purple and yellow. This bag used to be a table cloth, an apron, a bedspread, a flat sheet, a throw blanket, plus a fabulous remnant of turqoise velvet. I like to imagine that a little girl got that velvet dress for a wedding or Christmas. Something special and soft and pretty.

Two small pockets underneath the flap, about right for a cell phone and keys. Inside you'll find three more pockets- one large and two medium.

This is a perfectly happy bag.

$25.00 for Darfur.

Paypal accepted.

What's All This?!

Some time ago, a blogger friend of mine provided a link on her site to the crisis in Darfur. Thus began an online conversation about our responsibility as being in the priveleged minority on this planet. God gave me a passion to create bags and send the proceeds to provide food and shelter aid to the peoples of Darfur, Sudan. This project seems to be exploding. It is impossible to stockpile bags, as they sell very quickly and get constructed in the "spare time" of my life as full-time family daycare operater, mother of four children, and keeper of the grounds.

It has been an unbelievably fulfilling ride to combine several passions in this project. Listening to the small, still, easily ignored voice of God. Combining a passion (compulsion) for thrifting with a passion to create with needle and thread. Using reclaimed fabrics rich with imagined history and sending them back out into the world to begin anew.

Now skirts, jeans, curtains, quilts, tea towels, kitchen aprons, flour sacks, couches, belts, neckties, bedspreads, and table cloths are being casually slung over shoulders from across the prairies, over the mountains, and over oceans. The joy and connectedness spreads right around the world.

From off my shoulder and through my heart, welcome to the Darfur project.

Tie a Yella Ribbon- We're Waiting For Old Faithful

We are currently...
SOLD OUT!

(back to the drawing board.....)

April 20, 2008
Old faithful Bernina is in the hospital at the moment. She is quite anemic, having run herself a little ragged with enthusiam; fuelled mainly by caffienne, sheer grit, a little wine, and waaaay too much lint. It has been eight long days and eight endless, lonely nights. We are all growing a little anxious, and hope that the hospital bills will not exceed our equally anemic means. Still, we wait, and hope. And when the hoping becomes unbearable, we bring out old pinkie and thread and rethread her until she and I slump over, exhausted and overheated, threads snapping and lights dimming.

As we await the homecoming of Old Faithful, we anticipate the abundance of productivity and faith that time will multiply itself twenty-fold upon such a time.

Lucky 7 SOLD

Bowling Bag. Made from funky old bowling lane scenes, the back of the bag is on the right, and the front on the left. The pocket is from a rice bag. Lucky Seven.

$25.00

Hanky Handbag and Pink and White SOLD

$15.00
Hanky Handbag. Vintage flavoured- bits of old pink and grey, pulled together with handkerchief pockets.

$15.00

Pink and White.

Kitschy Kitchen and the Happy Handbag SOLD

Kischy Kitchen.
$25.00

The Happy Handbag. This is a smaller handbag perfect for outings that don't involve the kitchen sink or your locker's worth of textbooks. Each side has it's own charm, and I let some of my buttons go on this project.
$20.00