As of late…

Harmony and I have been busy. We were invited for dinner last night by her friend's Morrie and Ginger. Look at their view!

We got to eat this just after sunset…

Ginger and Morrie have not been properly trained in the use of jazz hands…

Bye bye sun…

Today we went to see the baby seals not far from Harmony's house…

Then we hiked to the river and got some cool rocks…

And picked up trash on the way back. Who does this? Who throws stuff our their car window?

Please tell me it's not you. Teresa

Beach Plastic…

Today Harmony, Misses Stitches, and I went looking for plastic on Cooks Beach…

The first thing I spotted was a water bottle, sheesh…

 So pretty…

Some of the trash tries to hide on us. For your viewing convenience, I have circled it in red for you. Doesn't that white piece of styrofoam look like a rock? It's not…

Do we look like a rap group or what? We are available for your next event…

 Here is our booty, arghhhh matey…

 Harmony felt like she was on an environmentalist Easter egg hunt…

 Each of us found lost soles…

 Circled is the area where we found most of the trash…

I will post more pictures of our booty tomorrow. Teresa

Visiting Harmony!

I am in California visiting Harmony. Yay! We went for a 2 hour hike this AM with her hiking group. The focus was on wild flowers.

I mean, c'mon, flowers, hiking, amazing scenery AND Harmony? Heaven. :) Dinner and then planting some pots of flowers and herbs for Harmony's new deck. Teresa

Cool bags!

Maybe we need to illuminate some Green Bag Lady bags???

Aren't these cool? The felted wool bag is sturdy, durable, and works well for day-to-day use. Empty the bag, turn on the LED light source, and you have a portable luminary that beautifully highlights the felt’s natural weave. More info found HERE. Teresa

Argentina Bag!

Hi Teresa I send pictures.
Greetings.

Marina
Argentina

Winners of the Earth Day 2011 Freebie!

Congrats to the winners of the produce bags!


Sara Moran--South Lake Tahoe, CA
Jill Osborn--Kea'au, HI
Meghan McGrady-Curtis--Eugene, OR
Nicole Bruno--Pocomoke City, MD
Aimee Friedrichsen--Wheaton, IL
Suzee Neal--Jasonville, IN
Jessica Musumarra--Methuen, MA
Catie Tindell--Lake Villa, IL
Rachel Hulan--Santa Ana, CA
Laura TaVoularis--Pittsburgh, PA
Sarah Schwartz--Passaic, NJ
Pam Evans--Rogers, AR
Michele McKay--Austin, TX
Wendy Shelton--Chiang Mai, THAILAND


Winners of the fruit contest were:
13 strawberries
6 tomatoes
5 cucumbers
4 asparagus, blueberries, pineapple
3 apples, broccoli, oranges
2 corn, kale, mushrooms, peppers, potatoes
1 avocados, beets, bok choy, cabbage, fennel, grapefruit, green beans, kiwis, lettuce, lilikoi, mangoes, nectarines, onions, pears, pluots, raspberries, squash, watermelon, zucchini


Just for the record, Bagette Dad is very offended that his beloved watermelon only got one vote AND that broccoli and kale got more. Just lettin' y'all know. I'm off to visit Harmony in the morning! Teresa


PS-Please remember that on all our freebies, you need to leave an email address, we don't know how to find you otherwise!

Me steering the boat!

I finally put this on YouTube. It is me steering the boat on one of the worst days at sea. Dale took the video on his iPhone. Alfred and I just got finished singing our own version of Yellow Submarine. I hope you had a good weekend. Only a few more hours to enter the freebie below! Teresa

Dear Mother Earth…

Dear Mother Earth--

Thank you for an absolutely glorious Easter day!

Thank you for making baby ducks, they are the best. Do you know how to train them to do jazz hands (er, jazz wings)?

Your BFF, Teresa

This photo was taken yesterday at my University's egg hunt. They had 40 baby ducks! Notice the similarity in expression. Happy Easter!!!!

Happy EARTH DAY 2011 Freebie!

I can't let Earth Day slip past this year without another freebie. I also happen to have a lot of great produce bags on hand. FOURTEEN sets of 3 to be exact. So, who wants them? Produce bags up for grabs. This set of 3 will help you reduce your use of plastic even more at the grocery store. They are all washable and include a tiny binder to close the top. Easy peasy!

Here is what you need to do to win:

•LEAVE A COMMENT, IN THE COMMENT LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THIS FORMAT: name(at)something(dot)com it is important to spell out dot and at so you don't get spam, if you DO NOT leave an email address, we will not hunt you down to send you a freebie, thanks.

•In your comment, tell us you favorite fruit or veggie!

•Do a blog post/email/facebook/twitter about the freebie or become a follower of the Green Bag Lady blog. If you do, leave ANOTHER comment for a second chance to win. 

•DEADLINE TO LEAVE A COMMENT FOR THE FREEBIE IS 10pm (CST) MONDAY, April 25, 2011.

FOURTEEN people will win a set of three produce bags from the ones pictured above. HOWEVER, anyone that enters that DOES NOT have a bag, will get a shopping bag from us. Enter, what have you got to lose? Teresa

PS, International OK! Enter

Dear Mother Earth…

Dear Mother Earth--

Happy Earth Day, er Happy YOU Day!

It is today that we celebrate everything about YOU. Your kindness even when some of us are not so nice to you. Your forgiveness even when some of us tread not so lightly on you. Your willingness to give us everything we need to survive as a species.

There are many of us who don't forget these things and understand that you will go on without us, no matter how foolish in our choices.

You deserve all the hoopla and celebrating that is going on in your name today! Enjoy!

Still your BFF--Teresa

Wish I had the National Geographic Channel…

If anyone out there watches this, let me know! Teresa

Winners!

Randomly chosen winners of the Bling, String and Spring are as follows:


Cynthia Randolph--Milan, TN
Angela McWhorter--Derby, AUSTRALIA
Tracy Dunn-Kappes--Madisonville, KY
Adriana Gonzalez--Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Mary Beth Rew--Newport, OR
Carla Susana Wilt--Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Heather Schwartz Olson--Braintree, MA
Jackie Hom--San Francisco, CA
Candy Bryant--Ludington, MI
Stacey Roseberry--Fenton, MO


However, if you do not have a bag from us already, you will get one! Bagette Dad will be mailing everyone today. CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER!!!!! Congrats! Teresa

EARTH DAY…Bling, String and Spring…Organic '11 Freebie #7

How about some bling bling from Janet Setter along with some lovely string string from Whisker Graphics? What a great combo! Throw in a spring spring Green Bag Lady bag and you are ALL set!

How about this for a fun EARTH DAY FREEBIE???

TEN LUCKY WINNERS WILL GET:
ONE spring Green Bag Lady bag…

 ONE "Earth" necklace, made just for this occasion, from the lovely Janet Setter…

ONE set of 2 yards each of Divine Twine in 10 delicious colors (from the fabulous Whitney at Whisker Graphics)…

 All set to be dropped into your hot little hands!

 Awww, Big Girl modeling the necklace for you…

Here is what you need to do to win:

•LEAVE A COMMENT, IN THE COMMENT LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THIS FORMAT: name(at)something(dot)com it is important to spell out dot and at so you don't get spam, if you DO NOT leave an email address, we will not hunt you down to send you a freebie, thanks.

•In your comment tell us how you are celebrating Earth Day.

•Do a blog post/email/facebook/twitter about the freebie or become a follower of the Green Bag Lady blog. If you do, leave ANOTHER comment for a second chance to win. 

•DEADLINE TO LEAVE A COMMENT FOR THE FREEBIE IS 10pm (CST) TUESDAY, April 19, 2011.

TEN people will win the prize pack above! HOWEVER, anyone that enters that DOES NOT have a bag, will get a shopping bag from us. Enter, what have you got to lose? Happy Organic '11! Teresa

PS, International OK! Enter!

Sigh…

Another artist who does cool things with plastic bags…

One Hundred and Eight – Interactive Installation from Nils Völker on Vimeo.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT

interactive installation

summer/autumn 2010
One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.

Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observer. As long as he remains in a certain area in front of the installation it dynamically reacts to the viewers motion. As soon it does no longer detect someone close it reorganizes itself after a while and gently restarts wobbling around.

2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller

It's a beautiful day…

All about eggs…

Eggs are great. The shape, the colors, the taste…lovely. Do I sound like a commercial? We are in the season of eggs and I am surrounded. I surrender!

I started getting local farm fresh eggs through a friend here in Nashville last year. Wow. I did not know what I was missing. The taste, the color, the variety. I love it! Opening a new carton is like opening a present!

Look what Farmer Jim sent me this week. Ok, so I already ate one. A dozen large and a dozen small. Look how tiny some of them are, they are almost too adorable to eat. I can't wait to hard boil some of these little guys and dye them for Easter. I can count at least 5 different breeds of chickens between these 2 boxes. I so adore the blue one, they are my favorite. Sometimes I save the shells. They are just too pretty to compost…

This was my breakfast. I normally only eat 2, but I wanted you to see the different varieties. Can you guess which yolk came from the tiny egg? As though you are in Kindergarten…

The darkest yolk was from the blue egg. Amazing how gold they are, isn't it? You don't get this from the grocery store. You only get eggs this rich from chickens that run around on a farm. True…just read Omnivore's Dilemma…

And speaking of eggs, I have been making these for everybody and my brother. Literally, these 3 sets are for my 2 sisters and my brother. I need to mail them off so they get them before Easter…

The nests were left over from a friends wedding and she gave me about 70 of them. Even though they were adorable, I wasn't sure what to do with them until I found the wooden eggs HERE. I painted them white and then used ultra fine permanent markers for the letters and designs.

These are Bagette Ann's…

 Showing you some scale…they are tiny, I am cross-eyed now…

And then, I found these on the world wide web…

 I mean, holy smokes, embroidery on eggs! Find out more HERE. Cross-eyed just thinking about it…

Ok, done, back to our regularly scheduled programming about bags…Teresa