my bags

Early last year,I ended up in a battle with one of my neighbors. It was long and bitter. I tried to walk the high road, and I would like to think that I succeeded, at least most of the time. I did not start it, But I did finish it, and with dignity. During this time, another neighbor of mine was a true saint. She listened to me, and appeared at town meetings with me. She was a great support in a time of despair.

The neighbor thing was only the icing on the cake I called my life. Last year was by far the hardest of my life, and I am so grateful that it is over. When we were on the downside of the battle, I started thinking about something that I would like to do to thank her. She is an artist and loves hand made items.

So I wandered on the internet and started looking for ideas and ran across items made out of recycled burlap coffee bags......They were amazing. The texture with the graphics, I cannot even explain what they did for me. I needed to create some of these for myself. but where would i even start...

supplies'
of course
i could not even begin to make anything without supplies. So I turned to the internet yet again. where do you find these bags?
So I turned to ebay first......what a disappointment. I have not been on there in a while, and the whole site felt....well.....stale.

and expensive. While i could get the bags for like 1-2 dollars each, the shipping was like 10 per bag.ok so maybe i exaggerate. What I would need to do if find something locally......so I turned to an archaic device,the yellow pages. i contacted a few local coffee roasters and found a few that would supply me with the bags i required.


All i had to do was pick them up i went over onedaqy hoping for at least 5 or 6 bags, and left with almost 80. It felt like I had struck gold.On the way home I was so exicted, and I began to think about what else I needed

........next i needed a pattern...