Weekly Collection

Another bag

Beach finds

Big ships

Sand castle building

Joining in with the Beetle Shack.  

The Nancy Bag

I decided to make shopping bags this year for presents.

A trip to the oppie gleaned a fabulous piece of appliqué and a rat through my fabric cupboard produced  a brightly coloured bag.

     

Easy peasie with a round base.

South Australia has a no plastic bag policy, well sort of you can buy them at the supermarket but one of these is far more fun. 

This one was for Nancy.  

Thrifted and Gifted

My new bag or suitcase as I refer to it.

All the pieces that make this bag were either op shopped or presents.

Pop over to Sophies for more treasure.

Flea Market Finds

This week has whizzed by in the blink of an eye.

I had a visit from my bestie on Thursday and we hit the oppies, it's always much more fun with a friend.

We laughed at "remember this" and "I had one of those" treasures in the shops.

I found this fabulous bowling type bag for $1, with both zips still in perfect condition.

Inside the label reads "Sheldon of NSW" and "your lucky cent", and there still in the plastic is the lucky Australian 1 cent piece.

For more treasure hunters pop over to Sophie's.

Tea Towels

While checking out blogland this morning I discovered Cam's tutorial for her tea towel totes.

I set forth tea towels to find, errands to run, bills to pay, shopping apparently not everyone in our house can live on chocolate! 3 oppies later and no tea towels or any other treasure.

With lots on my mind it wasn't until I reached the supermarket I discovered I had forgotten my shopping bags, they don't always make it back to the car. Owning a zillion already I refused to purchase anymore and this upset the young check out girl who couldn't get her head around scanning my items and me loading them back into the trolley.

While driving home I made one last oppie visit no tea towels but a pile of pillow cases at 50cents each I grabbed a couple .... .... tea towel .. pillow case ... ... why not.

Home again I popped them into the washing machine while I unloaded the car and began searching for some tape and yes the last place I looked I found some cotton tape, unfortunately not enough to follow Cam's instructions but enough  for handles either end. After stitching up the side seams and turning the bag the right way out, the sides just gravitated inwards.

Now I have a zillion and 2 bags!

Thanks curlypops for sharing your tote pattern.