"The U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion US"
- The Wall Street Journal
Plastic Bags Consumed This Year:*
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Think Outside the Bag!
Would you like an alternative to the Plastic Bag? Tote bags are easy and don't cost the earth. Tote bags are simple, practical and a cost-effective way to help protect your environment.
Reusable bags - Tote bags have many uses including grocery shopping bag, library bag, lunch bag, beach bag, or convention bag.
We will be hand sewing:
- Tote Bags
- Beach Bags
- Cloth grocery bags - fully lined in complimentary colours
- Cloth grocery bags - Unlined
- Bag-bags (for plastic bag storage)
- Trick or Treat Halloween goodie bags
- Christmas gift bags -
- Wine (bottle) gift bags - seasonal and by special order
- Hand Bags in various styles and colors - as inspiration dictates - or by special order
With a variety of prints and colours to come, there's bound to be something that fits your style. Can't find the colour you like? Chances are we could find it for you.
Before Plastic - there was Cloth
"ONE cloth bag will replace at least 1000 plastic bags over its life."
Here are a few plastic bag facts:
- Two fewer plastic shopping bags per person per shopping trip would reduce Canadian plastic waste by a million kilograms in one year.
- Approximately 2 million barrels of oil are used in plastic bag production each year in Canada. It takes only four grocery shopping trips for the average family to accumulate 60 plastic shopping bags.
- Canadians take home more than 55 million plastic bags from grocery and convenience stores every week. Less than one in two hundred of these are recycled.
- The average family uses 400 to 500 plastic grocery bags per year and that these are rarely recycled. That's a good reason to find a more ecologically sound answer to the shopping bag dilemma. No, not those ugly cream cotton bags with logos, but hand made, attractive, strong and reusable TOTE BAGS. Unlimited use TOTE BAGS !! A practical and cost-effective way to help protect your environment.
- Did you know that wrapping paper is not recyclable because of the colored inks? Think of all the holiday paper and cello wrap you see in stores during the holiday seasons---it all goes in the landfill. Many people keep and reuse paper gift bags and boxes. The alternative -- cloth reusable gift bags available in many sizes, colors and Christmas designs.
The Tote Bags:
Made from a variety of prints and solids, fully lined and each with a pocket for keys or cell phone. Some are embellished with beads or appliqué. Can easily be used for purchases in a store, take to the beach, carry your shoes or lunch or schoolbooks. Great in the car when traveling to hold all those extra goodies that you might want while on the trip. Or purchase a Tote bag and fill it with goodies for that special someone. Your bag does double duty as gift-wrap and used for a bag.
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Grocery Bags:
Are not embarrassingly ugly as most cloth bags are - they don't have logos all over them. They are collapsible, crushable, fit in your car, pocket or purse. The handles are soft and more comfortable to hold and carry than plastic bags. They won't tear open because you put a heavy soup can inside. You can't punch holes in them with the sharp corner of a cereal box. With many big 'box stores' now charging for plastic bags.…..save your money and the environment and use reusable bags.
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Gift Bags:
A great way to enhance your gift, and be eco-friendly. They'll last for many years and can be shared amongst friends and family year after year. They store up small, as they are cloth -- not like the tall tubes of paper wrap. With different colours and prints, there are gift bags suitable for all occasions. The bag is a part of the gift that keeps on giving.
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Bag-Bags:
Provide a compact and easy storage solution to all those plastic bags you already have. Stuff new bags in the top, pull bags you want to use out the bottom. Holds a whole lot of plastic bags and can be hung in your broom or coat closet for easy access
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Halloween Bags:
Just think about the little "Munchkins" out there trick or treating with a Plastic Bag! That's no way to go. Instead, think about a great little reusable cloth Trick-or-Treat bag in bright fun Halloween prints and colors.
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Specialty Bags:
We enjoy excersizing our creativity in the making of our bags, and have made a number of hand bags and other bags for carrying everything from wine to daipers. Please keep checking our website to see our latest inspirations, or feel free to contact us for custom orders
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