Congratulations to the following lucky folks…
Winners of the Harmony Art organic fabric stacks:
Nancy Irving, KS
Crystal Krueger, CANADA
Winners of the organic lunch totes:
pamela-4
Jessica Musumarra, MA
gingerc
Winners of the Harmony Art organic fabric Green Bag Lady bags:
jjplute
Natalya Shergunova, RUSSIA
laura.mnplygirl
maswaney
czereyna
jnbrenna
vanwalterop
Please look for an email from Bagette Dad. He will be asking for your mailing address so we can send you your prize. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. We have issues with emails going to spam. Thanks and enjoy!
The emails will look like this:
Green Bag Lady, BackToSchool_8_2011
18,681 FREE SHOPPING BAGS have been given away by Green Bag Lady!
Back to School + Organic '11 WINNERS!
Back to School + Organic '11 Freebie!
It's back to the books and time to jump into a new school year! Sew Mama Sew is helping people get ready by posting fun tutorials. I made a knit book cover tutorial that is being shared on their blog. Yay! I hope you will use it to get your kiddos back to school in DIY style.
To help even more with your cool school style, we have some fun things for you made from Harmony Art organic fabric. More YAY!
How about some organic cotton knit? To make your own book covers! Two lucky winners will get these stacks…
And a freebie would not be that same without some Green Bag Lady bags! Seven lucky peeps will win these (also Harmony Art organic fabric)…
•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, you will not be entered in the freebie.
•In your comment, hop over to Harmony's site and tell us something that you learn about organic cotton.
•DEADLINE FOR THE FREEBIE IS 10 PM (CST) Wednesday, August 31, 2011. (winners announced Sept 1)
•TWELVE LUCKY WINNERS WILL BE RANDOMLY CHOSEN FROM THE COMMENTS TO WIN!
Good Luck + a huge thank you to Harmony for the fabric and Sew Mama Sew for posting the book cover tutorial! Teresa
International entries OK.
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coming up next week!)
THIS FREEBIE IS NOW CLOSED, PLEASE CHECK OFTEN FOR FUTURE FREEBIES, THANKS!
More numbers from Bagette Dad…
We have given away 16102 bags in the good ol' U.S. of A. Here they are broken down by state:
Alaska--21
Alabama--139
Arkansas--101
Arizona--80
California--1412
Colorado--95
Connecticut--45
Washington DC--7
Delaware--8
Florida--310
Georgia--235
Hawaii--15
Iowa--29
Idaho--13
Illinois--160
Indiana--110
Kansas--36
Kentucky--180
Louisiana--55
Massachusetts--85
Maryland--58
Maine--41
Michigan--124
Minnesota--301
Missouri--131
Mississippi--219
Montana--6
North Carolina--155
North Dakota--5
Nebraska--19
New Hampshire--25
New Jersey--99
New Mexico--15
Nevada--7
New York--236
Ohio--134
Oklahoma--52
Oregon--215
Pennsylvania--240
Rhode Island--12
South Carolina--145
South Dakota--85
Tennessee--8088
Texas--2083
Utah--22
Virginia--143
Vermont--36
Washington--98
Wisconsin--154
West Virginia--14
Wyoming--4
Rankings:
1st Place--Tennessee with 8088 (of course, we live HERE!)
2nd Place--Texas--2083
3rd Place--California--1412
Those of you that live in Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, Washington DC, Delaware, come on over and enter a freebie! We want you to have bags too! A great freebie will be posted Monday evening. Have a great week! Teresa
So worth your time…
I want to send this to every educator that I know! Thanks for sharing Harmony. Speaking of Harmony, we have a great freebie coming up this week with her organic fabric! Teresa
Michigan Bag!
Colleen
Troy, MI
Birch Fabrics Organic '11 WINNERS
Congratulations to the following lucky folks…
Winners of the Birch Fabrics Storyboek stacks:
Alea Shinn, MI
Linda J Gutknecht, WI
alhcampbell
Mary Notturno, OH
Amorette Drexler, CA
Colleen Butler, MI
ellaredstar
Winners of the Storyboek organic fabric bags:
Louise Alerfors--Saffle, SWEDEN
paskiaq
kdehart5151
trollsandra
mediengland
Ludmila Zhukova--Moscow, RUSSIA
donareynolds8
Please look for an email from Bagette Dad. He will be asking for your mailing address so we can send you your prize. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. We have issues with emails going to spam. Thanks and enjoy!
The emails will look like this:
Green Bag Lady, BirchFabrics_8_2011
Here is how you voted:
117 votes
29 whale watching
22 field friends
19 gone fishin
11 field stroll
10 wildflowers
10 woodcut sky
6 cobblestone
5 bubble stripe
3 seahorses
2 new school
Birch Fabrics + Organic '11 FREEBIE!
I don't know if it is possible, but Cynthia Mann of Birch Fabrics is even sweeter than her lovely organic textiles. I contacted her about an Organic '11 freebie to which she readily agreed. Then, she sent a WHOPPING 56 fat quarters to be made into bags and stacks. Yup, 56! Thank you Cynthia! This is the newest Birch collection called Storyboek (not a typo) and is absolutely precious! Look how cute these bags turned out. I can see this fabric as dresses, quilts, bedding, curtains, the list goes on…YUM! (click on photos to enlarge)
Here is what you can win, one of these SEVEN Birch Fabric Storyboek organic fabric bags…
Here is what you need to do to enter this freebie:
•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, you will not be entered in the freebie.
•In your comment, tell us your favorite design from the Storyboek collection!
•DEADLINE FOR THE FREEBIE IS 10 PM (CST) Thursday, August 25, 2011. (winners announced Aug 26)
•FOURTEEN LUCKY WINNERS WILL BE RANDOMLY CHOSEN FROM THE COMMENTS TO WIN!
Good Luck + a huge thank you to Cynthia and everyone at Birch Fabrics for being so generous! Teresa
International entries OK.
Not familiar with Green Bag Lady? Click HERE.
Like us on Facebook to be updated on all FREEBIES! (there is a great one on organic knit next week!)
THIS FREEBIE IS CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR ENTERING. CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY FOR FUTURE FREEBIES.
Sweden Bag!
Bag no:16824 has now arrived in Säffle, Sweden!
It was fun to recieve your email and then an hour or two later when the regular mail arrived I found my Green Bag Lady bag!!! Of course I had to go shopping and try it out!
Thank you for the Green Bag Lady bag! I'll use it as much as possible! Let me know if there is anything I can do from here to help you with the project!
Hugs from Säffle, Sweden!
Louise
Alejandro Duran, my new favorite artist…
Washed Up is an ongoing project by Mexican-born, New York-based artist Alejandro Durán that addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve. With more than twenty pre-Colombian archaeological sites, this UNESCO World Heritage site is also home to a vast array of flora and fauna and the world’s second largest coastal barrier reef. Unfortunately, Sian Ka’an is also a repository for the world’s trash, which is carried there by ocean currents from every corner of the globe.
Starting in February 2010 and over subsequent visits, Durán has used this international detritus to create his color-based, site-specific sculptures. He conflates the hand of man and nature, distributing the objects the way the waves would, like wind-scattered seed or roots tunneling through soil, echoing the organic forms of the surrounding landscape. In order to photograph the sculptures, Durán uses a mix of natural and artificial light, further blurring the line between existing and constructed realities.
Over the course of this project, Durán has identified products washed ashore from forty-two nations on six continents. The resulting photo series depicts a new form of colonization by consumerism, where even undeveloped land is not safe from the far-reaching impact of our disposable culture. Although inspired by the works of Andy Goldsworthy and Robert Smithson, Washed Up speaks to the environmental concerns of our time and its vast quantity of discarded materials. Beyond turning trash into treasure, the alchemy of Washed Up lies in the project’s potential to raise awareness and change our relationship to consumption and waste.
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Thank you Alejandro for your great project! Spotted on Design Mom. Teresa
Really, REALLY?
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PHOTO: flickr.com/Arbel Egger |
California schoolchildren will be able to read all about plastic bags' contribution to society in their school text books. Who's to thank for such a development? Why, the American Chemistry Council, of course.
The lobbying group put pressure on California educators to include positive information on plastic bags -- such as that they take less energy to produce than paper bags and are much lighter -- at the same time it was fighting San Francisco's ban on plastic bags, according to California Watch.
The section "The Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags" was added in 2009 to high school juniors' text. The information is "almost verbatim" identical to letters written by the chemistry council, which lobbies for bags as well as other plastics.
The section "The Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags" was added in 2009 to high school juniors' text. The information is "almost verbatim" identical to letters written by the chemistry council, which lobbies for bags as well as other plastics.
Gone unmentioned are the facts that plastic bags take 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill while leaching toxic chemicals into groundwater and oceans, which are, in case nobody noticed, currently full of plastics.
Read the rest of the article HERE.
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I really wish time and energy could be used for the good of the planet, don't you? Thank you to Harmony's sister-in-law Wendy for the heads up on this one. If you live in California and your kid comes home with this book, ask the school to choose a different curriculum. Teresa
Numbers
This just in from Bagette Dad. Some nice numbers for you:
Green Bag Lady is over 17000 Bags
in 2651 US cities in every US state
plus 561 cities in 297 territories/provinces/countries world wide
I hope this makes you smile, it sure made me happy! Here's to greening up the world! Have a great week. Join us soon for a freebie from Birch Organic Fabrics! Teresa
CIO Hero!
Thanks CIO! We are honored. Teresa
Sale at Namemaker!
LIKE Namemaker ON FACEBOOK & receive a HUGE DISCOUNT off most web items. Go to the Facebook page using this Link and click the Like button at the top of our facebook page to reveal the discount code. Once you have the discount code, shop on Namemaker.com and enter the code at check out. Make sure you enter it in all lowercase letters and as one word with no spaces.
This coupon can only be used once per customer. This coupon expires AUGUST 28, 2011 at midnight EST. Coupon CAN NOT be used retroactively for orders purchased prior to this sale- no exceptions apply. Coupon is ONLY valid for NameMaker FACEBOOK FANS and web orders and can not be used over the phone or by mail. Coupon can not be combined with any other offers & is not valid on sale items. This Coupon is also not valid on sweet selections gift wrap that is already value priced at $10.95 per roll, wine tags, logo items, custom items or items not available on our website.
If you wanted labels now is your chance! Teresa
Whirlwind to California…
I made it back from a 3 day trip to California. I flew out on Wednesday and came back last night. Whew. The first thing I did was meet the ever fabulous Judith Selby and give her 60 bags for an event with her alma mater, Pitzer College, that she and Richard are hosting at their Electric Works Gallery. Judith is wearing one of her famous beach plastic necklaces in this photo…
Then I headed to Gulalala to see Harmony and judge the Art in the Redwoods Exhibition for 2 days. My fellow judge was Tim McNeil from UC Davis, he was great. We got along well which made the task of picking winners from 350+ entries much easier! This is a photo of the awards ceremony. Tim has a lovely British accent so I let him do most of the talking.
I had a wonderful, if not busy time, here are good buy jazz hands with Harmony…
Good bye California, I heart you!
Swanky Swell Organic '11 WINNERS
Congratulations to the following lucky folks…
Winner of the fat quarter set:
Karyn Ashley-Smith
Winners of 2 yards of Swanky Swell fabric:
Christie Stoops
Suzan Widecrantz
Winner of bags made out of Swanky Swell fabric
angiemail99
marcela_p_7
dsmenke
Kris Perez
seller600
Please look for an email from Bagette Dad. He will be asking for your mailing address so we can send you your prize. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. We have issues with emails going to spam. Thanks and enjoy!
The emails will look like this:
Green Bag Lady, SwankySwell_8_2011
Also, stay tuned for upcoming fabulous Organic '11 freebies with Birch Fabrics and Alabama Chanin (just to name a few!)
Here is how you voted:
33 votes
10 foliage
3 (EACH), hand screen.print, heritage, raindrop, split pea
2 (EACH), cherry blossom, daydream, gingko, mum
1 (EACH), bloom, digital printed, doilies
Swanky Swell Organic '11 FREEBIE!
We are excited to team up with Swanky Swell for this Organic '11 freebie! Yay! The fabric is gorgeous and designer Nina Jizhar is super sweet and talented! Nina believes in the importance of sustainable design. Her main collection is screenprinted by hand with non toxic water-based ink. She recently introduced prints on organic cotton too. All her fabrics are upholstery weight, perfect for home decor (and sturdy bags!). Check out Nina's cute blog HERE.
We have some great bags AND some fun fabric up for grabs for EIGHT lucky winners!
First up is this set of fat quarters…
TO ENTER THIS FUN FREEBIE, DO THE FOLLOWING:
•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 your favorite Swanky Swell fabric!
•DEADLINE FOR THE FREEBIE IS 10 PM (CST) Thursday, August 18, 2011. (winners announced Aug 19)
•EIGHT LUCKY WINNERS WILL BE RANDOMLY CHOSEN FROM THE COMMENTS TO WIN!
Good Luck + a huge thank you to Nina and Swanky Swell! Teresa
International entries OK.
COMMENTS CLOSED, PLEASE LIKE US ON FACEBOOK TO BE INFORMED OF FUTURE FREEBIES!
From Argentina…
I make a new bed for my dog Lupe, and two beds more for abandoned dogs. :)
Adry in Buenos Aires, Argentina
If you would like to make pet bed too, how to post is here. Thanks Adry! Teresa
Today I am…
loving--all your nice comments (either emailed to me or on the blog) about the video (thanks!)
crossing--off items on my to do list (many before the my University begins class on Aug 24)
packing--to go see Harmony on Wednesday and judge this exhibition
deciding--what to make for dinner, the hardest decision of the day!
reminding--you that there is a great freebie posted tomorrow night!
Happy Monday! Teresa
New Video
HUGE thank you to my former student, Ryan Stufflebam for this fabulous video about the project. I heart you Ryan!!! Teresa
It's too hot…
My kids have not been outside as much as I would like lately. It. Is. Hot. Here. Some days when you walk out the door the heat hits your lungs like a ton of bricks. Like walking into a sauna. Ugh. Yesterday was not too bad. After Little Girl and Little Man kept arguing in the morning, I sent them outside. I didn't care about the temp, they needed to go…
In my email…
From my office manager, I don't know the original author, just funny! Teresa
The Green Thing
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana .
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.
We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service.
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartmouth young person.
SEW MAMA SEW + #17,000 Winners!
Winners of the $20 Sew Mama Sew gift certificates:
sherid94
num1_angel
Winner of bag #17,000:
beatrix.sadek
Winner of Harmony Art organic cotton bags:
yquiltsalot
statuesque27
carolyn_dv
mindfulhome
jenniferdannielle
tkelley5
laurajane10
ksnrn
faerieblossom
Please look for an email from my father, David VanHatten (aka Bagette Dad). He will be asking for your mailing address so we can send you your prize. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. We have issues with emails going to spam. Thanks and enjoy!
The emails will look like this:
Green Bag Lady, SewMamaSew17_8_2011
Also, stay tuned for upcoming fabulous Organic '11 freebies with Swanky Swell, Birch Fabrics and Alabama Chanin (just to name a few!) Teresa
First Day of School…
Every year when the first day of school rolls around, I walk down memory lane. I LOVED the beginning of school. All the new supplies, the excitement about seeing what teacher you had and what friends were in your class. Fun!
Here I am first day of first grade…
I think this is 5th grade, this is all 4 of us siblings, I remember those shoes so well, hearted them…
Now I make my kids line up and do the same thing on the first day…
Sew Mama Sew + #17,000 = Organic '11 FREEBIE!
I am thrilled, we are teaming up with Sew Mama Sew to bring you another Organic '11 FREEBIE! Haven't heard of Sew Mama Sew? What? Let me give you a little tour:
Sew Mama Sew Shop (cute, cute and more cute fabric, patterns, notions, etc)
Sew Mama Sew Blog (great tutorials, fresh ideas, freebies, etc)
Sew Mama Sew Tutorials (wonderful how to's from experts and readers!)
Sew Mama Sew and Green Bag Lady Green Grocery Bag Challenge (from last November)
But, did you know that the Sew Mama Sew Shop has organic/sustainable fabric? Oh, yes they do! Yay! Some really nice textiles, check them out. I'm a bit smitten with THIS from Monaluna and THIS from Timeless Treasures.
Guess what? Sew Mama Sew is kind enough to offer TWO $20 gift certificates for a couple of lucky winners here on Green Bag Lady. You can buy some fun organic fabric (or anything else that suits your fancy).
BUT, WAIT, that's not all…
Green Bag Lady has given away almost 17,000 bags. Yup. I can hardly believe it! To celebrate, we are giving away 10 Harmony Art organic cotton bags and ONE of them is bag #17,000! Here they are:
This one here is lucky #17,000…
See how she has those cool straps made with the ribbon from this post? Heart her, isn't she lovely?
Want in on this freebie? TWELVE lucky people will be victorious! TWO will win the Sew Mama Sew gift certificates, NINE will win Harmony Art organic cotton bags and ONE will win bag #17,000 (also made from Harmony Art organic cotton).
TO ENTER THIS FUN FREEBIE, DO THE FOLLOWING:
•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 e