Auction Closed: Pie Makes a Party!

I had my friend Jenn V. over for a sewing party on Friday night. "Sew" fun. Groan. Part way into the evening she informed me, "There's only two of us - it's not a party." Hmph. "But there's pie," I retorted. Then Jayme came and set up more shelves - yaay shelves. And then my sibs showed up - all 4 of them - and the sewing pretty much ended and the partying began. We read passages from books and planned our next round of bags ... sorta. Alrighty then! Thanks Jayme for the shelves and thanks Jenn for ALL the sewing.

This weeks bag biddies are:

• Calvin and Hobbes -- CC in BC -- $70
• The Measure of a Woman -- Darla -- $55

Bag Biddies, please email BagsforZaza@gmail.com to arrange payment and postage/pickup.

ThAnKyOuLoTsAnDlOtS! Now go eat some pie and come back Tuesday for more bags!

Auction Closed: Flurries

OK, there aren't any flurries in the sky (at least not in my neck of the woods - thank goodness), but there was certainly a flurry of last minute bidding here at BFZ. Thank you all so much. The comments and bidding certainly give us an idea of what's popular, although we never recreate the exact same bag again. But we aim to please!

This week's Bag Biddies are:

• Like Abigail -- Kristy -- $51
  
• Ulysses -- J.A. -- $67
• Lacey Jane Eyre -- JillyBean -- $58
• Lazy Sunday -- A.W. -- $47

Please email BagsforZaza@gmail.com to arrange payment and postage/pickup.

Thank you again and please come back Tuesday (or if you're lucky - Monday night) for more bags!

I've recently created that How to Bid post I promised awhile back, so if you're stumped - please check it out.

Lazy Sunday

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Jennie C and I work together, but live almost an hour apart. She often brings to work bags of fabric from her enormous stash to see if anything works with the bits and pieces my MIL and I have around. My new co-worker, Calvin, gets pretty excited about these bags of fabric and he couldn't help pulling together a coordinating bundle of this and that. I liked it enough that Lazy Sunday was created, named after Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book. It's also an apt name, because a glass of red wine, the colour of this rich corduroy, might be perfect for an ideal lazy Sunday.

We (Jennie C, Calvin T, and I) debated on whether the corduroy is wine or raspberry or burgundy or what? It really does different things in different light and from different angles. In any case, it's a gorgeous donation from Marjorie T, another co-worker of ours.

[* The pictures with an asterisks/star are the pictures that I think represent the colours the most accurately. The bag definitely is a berry shade and does NOT look at all rust like it shows up in a couple of the pictures.]

The front of this bag features a cute belt-like embellishment with a retro antique light-blue buckle from my MIL.

The back of the bag is simply more delicious corduroy.

The side pocket is made from that off-white diamond-patterned curtain I've used on other bags. And the pockets underneath the flap are made from a coordinating striped flannel from Jennie C's mom.

The bag, flap, and straps are lined with a sturdy cotton plaid, in coordinating shades of pink and blue on an off-white background.

The inside of the bag features three roomy pockets in a fine blue & white pinwhale stripe.

Bid on this bag by leaving your name and a bid in the comments section. Bidding starts at $25 and increases by whole $s please. Highest bidder at 9pm (PDT) on Saturday, September 27th gets the BAG! Postage extra (from Abbotsford, BC). This bag was created by Jenn V (with artistic direction from Calvin T).

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