California Bag!

Teresa,

Thank you so much for my gorgeous vintage print bag Number 942!

I have used it regularly with my other re-usable grocery bags at all my favorite grocery stores here in Sacramento (yours is obviously the cutest!).

It is quite the conversation starter at the register because it is so cute, I always speak highly of your great idea that is spreading like wildfire over the internet.

I have found other non-groceries uses for it as well, including picking plums from our plum tree in our yard. Here is a picture my hubby took of me using your bag to pick plums for my delicious plum pie.

Keep up the good work!

Morgan Valencia

Hawaii Bag!

Hi Teresa!

Here is a photo of me with my bag. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the polka dots! Representing the Green Bag Lady in HAWAII!

~elaine

OVER 2000!

Wow, can you believe it? Over 2000 Green Bag Lady bags in use out there!

AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC NE NH NJ NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV = 46 states

plus 29 cities in 21 countries/territories:

West Leederville, AUSTRALIA
Summer Hill, AUSTRALIA
Dombirn, AUSTRIA
Rixensart, BELGIUM
Petropolis R.J., BRAZIL
Fortaleza, BRAZIL
Ontario, CANADA
Vancouver, CANADA
Calgary, CANADA
Abbotsford BC, CANADA
Alberta, CANADA
San José, COSTA RICA
Jaco, COSTA RICA
Havana, CUBA
Copenhagen, DENMARK
Quito, ECUADOR
Paris, FRANCE
Freiburg, GERMANY
Sicily, ITALY
Camp Zama Army Base, JAPAN
Monrobia, LIBERIA
Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Pietermaritzburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Barcelona, SPAIN
Upsala, SWEDEN
Taipei County, TAIWAN
Kampala, UGANDA
Christiansted, VIRGIN ISLANDS

Imagination Branding

These are the lovely ladies from Imagination Branding here in Nashville that allowed me to interrupt their morning. All 10 agreed to us the bags instead of paper or plastic. Thanks ladies! Enjoy! Teresa

If you have ANY promotional needs, give them a ring!

Imagination Branding

Florida Bag!

Hi Teresa!
Sorry it's taken me so long to get this picture to you. (A little crazy around here with my twins!) Anyway, here's a picture of the twins and me at the "green market" down here in South Florida with bag #1453, filled with gator tail and fresh vegetables! Thanks so much!
Melissa

New Freebie!

With the help of "Queen Bagette April," over 100 bags were put into envelopes today and are ready to ship out. I hope to get most of them in the mail tomorrow. The backlog is getting down. There are still about 200 envelopes waiting for bags. Soon. . .

I have come up with an idea for another give away. I will take some photos this week and make a post. There will be 5 lucky winners that will get something fun in the mail from Green Bag Lady.

Stay tuned and I hope you will enter the contest!

Teresa

Vermont Bag!

Linda Miller of Vermont with bag in P-Town, Cape Cod. We had a picnic on the beach of lobster rolls and watched the sunset. Thank you for the bag. I use it all the time to bring snacks for the kids along to baseball, soccer and our weekend trips. I have also used it at the grocery store when buying a few items. It’s beautiful!

Arizona Bag!

Hello,

Here's a pic of me and my bag. It is great and extremely useful. I've used it for more than just groceries; it has become my goodie bag and goes everywhere with me. So much better than plastic.

Thank you. Colleen R.

New York and Maine Bags!

Teresa,

Back from Great Diamond Island, Maine, where I gave Bonnie her bag. She was blown away by it.

Again, thanks so much for the great gifts!!



Randall Harris, Director
Figureworks
http://www.figureworks.com

California Bag Lady!

My best friend found your site and got one of your bags.

I want you to know that I was given a bunch of fabric scraps and fashioned my own "Scrap Bags!" I have been taking orders for them and make them as fast as I possibly can. In fact, people have been custom ordering fabric bags. I have a Brother embroidery machine and I do a design on them with their name: i.e.. Nancy's Shopping Bag.

And, by the way, I have a wonderful 36 year old Elna sewing machine as well so I can stitch up bags while the other machine is embroidering...it sews as well.

My bags are slightly different in construction: I fold the edges of the strap fabric to the center, then in half wit the raw edges inside. I stitch down each side of the straps. I cut rectangles and then sew 3 inches across each corner of the outside fabric. When I put the lining in I simply stitch straight across the bottom and stuff it inside not worrying about making the "boxed corner" on the lining. Real easy and people LOVE them!

Nancy Springston in San Diego, California

South Carolina/Italy bag!

Teresa

I really enjoy your bag and it was great in Italy. Attached is a jpeg of me with the bag in Milan.

Best, Jane
http://www.janenodine.com/

New!!!! Footage of Green Bag Lady

FINALLY! I have this up for you all to see. This is footage from way back in JUNE of the Green Bag Lady event at Ecology. I had only given away about 600 bags way back then. We are over 1900 now!

Watch the video.

Enjoy! Teresa

Brooklyn, New York Green Bag Ladies!

Hi Teresa,
I wanted to let you know that I hosted Brooklyn's first green bag making day this past Sunday as part of Church of Craft. Here are some of photos of my hard workers, Abbie, Elisa, Sarah, and Kristy. We cut out over 40 bags and sewed 18. I posted it on my blog too. Our next step is to organize a give away day where we give bags out locally. It has been a lot of fun.
Hope you are well.
Annika


Annika--This is FABULOUS! I hope others are following suit and will send me photos too! All of you out there, send me photos of bag making, I would love to post them! Teresa

A Greener You. . .

Ok, so you have the fabric bag thing down. You use them all the time. You feel good about it. Now what? What else can you do to be green? Here are some suggestions:

•Be aware of your energy usage. The documentary film, "Kilowatt Ours" (made right here in Tennessee!) is WELL worth buying or viewing if there is an event near you. It has great tips for saving energy and some very scary facts about why you should do so. Saving Energy=Saving Money! www.kilowattours.org

•I know many of you do a great job recycling, right? I'm going to assume you are all nodding your heads. Do you feel bad about throwing away those plastic caps/lids when you recycle a bottle? No more, you can save them and bring them to an Aveda store for recycling. This is true, I asked at the store. Click here for a store near you! I have an oatmeal container on my kitchen counter just for collecting caps/lids.

•STOP buying bottled water. Please, stop. Read this and you will understand why. Get a good refillable bottle. Please.

•Try to buy as many things at the store as you can in glass and metal. These are both infinitely recyclable. Also, you reduce how much plastic you use. Please read "Plastic Ocean" to see why we all need to reduce our dependence on plastic.

That is all I will bombard you with right now. Get greener and do it today! It will make you happy. :) Teresa

Smoky Mountain Bag Lady

Teresa,

My Elna arrived on Friday--what a dream machine! It sews so fast, I almost couldn't keep up with it. Attached is a picture of my machine, with a newly finished baby quilt for Newborns in Need.


Best,
Sara
Smokey Mountain Bag Lady

Over 1900!

AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC NE NH NJ NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV = 45 states

plus 20 countries/territories:

West Leederville, AUSTRALIA
Summer Hill, AUSTRALIA
Dombirn, AUSTRIA
Rixensart, BELGIUM
Petropolis R.J., BRAZIL
Fortaleza, BRAZIL
Ontario, CANADA
Vancouver, CANADA
Alberta, CANADA
Calgary, CANADA
Abbotsford BC, CANADA
San José, COSTA RICA
Jaco, COSTA RICA
Havana, CUBA
Copenhagen, DENMARK
Quito, ECUADOR
Freiburg, GERMANY
Sicily, ITALY
Camp Zama Army Base, JAPAN
Monrobia, LIBERIA
Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Pietermaritzburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Barcelona, SPAIN
Upsala, SWEDEN
Taipei County, TAIWAN
Kampala, UGANDA
Christiansted, VIRGIN ISLANDS

A nice little post on another blog. . .

Fabric shopping bags! Hooray! I recently met a wonderful woman who works with the "Green Bag Lady" in Nashville. The Green Bag Lady is Teresa, an artist who began sewing fabric shopping bags and giving them away to anyone who requested them. Her project has now expanded so much that she has a small network of women who sew bags with her, and she's had so many requests that she can't keep up with demand. They use mostly donated (and consequently mostly vintage) fabric. My friend Anna made these two bags for me, and I love them so much more than the plain beige canvas bags you can buy in the grocery store.

To read the entire post go to Julie's Blog.

Thanks for the post on your site Julie! Teresa

OVER 1800!

AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC NE NH NJ NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV = 45 states

plus 19 countries/territories:

West Leederville, AUSTRALIA
Summer Hill, AUSTRALIA
Dombirn, AUSTRIA
Rixensart, BELGIUM
Petropolis R.J., BRAZIL
Fortaleza, BRAZIL
Ontario, CANADA
Vancouver, CANADA
Abbotsford BC, CANADA
San José, COSTA RICA
Jaco, COSTA RICA
Havana, CUBA
Copenhagen, DENMARK
Quito, ECUADOR
Freiburg, GERMANY
Sicily, ITALY
Camp Zama Army Base, JAPAN
Monrobia, LIBERIA
Pietermaritzburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Barcelona, SPAIN
Upsala, SWEDEN
Taipei County, TAIWAN
Kampala, UGANDA
Christiansted, VIRGIN ISLANDS

Australia Bag!

Thank you so much for my green bag! Knowing that you are so backlogged with requests I wasn't sure that you'd be able to send mine all the way to Australia so I was thrilled when my Green Bag Lady package arrived. I took it shopping that very day as you can see in the photo. I promise I'll be spreading the word about eco friendly bags.

Mindy Graham (West Leederville, Western Australia).