Linda's Been a Busy Girl

Linda's caught the sewing bug! In other news, her son caught a different kind of bug.

Linda's bags for this week are:

• Swallowdale
• Through Every Season
• The Cricket in Times Square
  

Bid on a bag by leaving a name and a bid in the comments section for the bag you want. Or you can just leave chatty comments as well. The highest bidder at 8pm (PST) on Monday, July 13th gets the bag and ALL profits are put towards Zaza's adoption!

Please make sure to check back and contact me if you're the highest bidder.

About the Bags ~ FAQs ~ How to Bid

Auction Open: Word Challenge

I'm hiding my dog in the wonderlands of nature for he always ruins my perfect phantastes of balancing pilates on broomsticks and sitting in my favourite place to scrawl calligraphy letters.

OK, so your challenge (aside from bidding on your favourite bag) is to use all the words from the titles of this week's bags in one sentence with the least number of extra words (I used 19).

For your bidding pleasure:

• The Hiding Place
  
• Phantastes
• Nature's Wonderlands
• Pilates for Dogs
  
• Letter Perfect
  

Bid on a bag by leaving a name and a bid in the comments section for the bag you want. Or just comment and say NICE and HAPPY and CHEERFUL things. Bidding starts at $25 and increases by whole $s. The highest bidder at 9pm (PDT) on Saturday, October 4th gets the bag!

Note on bidding: Please leave a name, nickname or handle of some sort. This is an informal and trusting system, but "anonymous" just won't do and "anonymous" bids will be disregarded. :(

Washing Donations

Rest assured, "washing donations" isn't the same as "laundering money". With all the fabric donations that come in, I have to do a lot of loads of washing these days. This week's bags feature donations from friends, family, co-workers, and strangers. The generosity out there is truly touching.

For your bidding pleasure:

• Like Abigail
• Ulysses
• Lacey Jane Eyre
• Lazy Sunday

Please note, the closing time for bidding has changed. Taking into consideration all of the feedback and my own desire to sleep in on Saturdays, I have come up with a time that will make everyone happy ... in my dreams!

Bid on a bag by leaving a name and a bid in the comments section for the bag you want. Or just comment and tell us our bags our pretty and that you're friends with so-and-so and they'll be featuring our bag on such-and-such episode of their talk-show.

Bidding starts at $25 and increases by whole $s. The highest bidder at 9pm (PDT) on Saturday, September 27th gets the bag!

Check

It looks like some of you have checked a person or two off your Christmas list - bravo! Only 14+ more weeks of shopping time left!

This week's bag biddies (winning bidders) are:

• The Parade to Paradise -- Lee Anne -- $35
  
• Fanny Crosby -- Harriet -- $26
• A Wrinkle in Time -- Sophia D. -- $56
• The Mitford Snowman -- Kristy -- $50

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

Thank you all so much from the bottom of my happily beating heart!

Tomorrow I'll be creating a little tutorial for those who don't understand how to do the bidding - it will be truly fascinating reading.

And of course, come back Monday for new bags!!!!!

Start Thinking About Christmas!

Our bags make great gifts; there's nothing more original - so why don't you have a look at your Christmas list and start thinking about who would love a bag from Bags for Zaza.

In an effort to balance our lives, we're scaling back a tad and may not always post as many bags as we have in the past. There's dozens of ideas swimming around in our heads and an amazing amount of donations to inspire us, but only so many hours in the day to put it all together.

This we have four bags for you:

• The Parade to Paradise
• Fanny Crosby
• A Wrinkle in Time
• The Mitford Snowman

Bid on a bag by leaving a name and a bid in the comments section for the bag you want. Or just comment and tell us what you think. Bidding starts at $25 and increases by whole $s. The highest bidder at 8am (PDT) on Saturday, September 13th gets the bag!

New Look - New Bags

Thank you all for your patience while I did a little vacationing. Without further ado, I bring you:

• The Carousel
• Farm Noises
• I Touch
• The Cat of Bubastes
• Kisses

Bid on a bag by leaving a name and a bid in the comments section for the bag you want. Or just comment and tell us what you think. Bidding starts at $25 and increases by whole $s. The highest bidder at 8am (PDT) on Saturday, September 6th gets the bag!

A New Crop of Kids

By some happy accident, this week's batch of bags all ended up having people names: Junie, Pudd'nhead, Caddie, and Danny Lynn. I didn't realize this until I sat down to post them. There's only four bags and we were going to finish up another one and post it later, but the way the names came together led me to decide to save that last bag for next week and just go with these four siblings.

Bid on a bag by leaving your name and a bid in the comments section for the bag. Bidding starts at $25 and increases by whole $s. The highest bidder at 8am (PDT) on Saturday, August 16th gets the bag!

Up for adoption to loving homes we have:

• Junie B. Jones is (almost) a Flower Girl
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Caddie Woodlawn
• Danny [Lynn], the Champion of the World

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And if you missed yesterday's post, have a read and let us know - "What's in your bag?"
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