14th January...

[squeak42]

hi,
I said on a previous post total would maybe get to 10,500 so I'll stick with that for at 23.59 - need to go and do some ironing (for bags of course...)
taking an example bag for the wall and leaflets with patterns on to my local farm shop tomorrow...

take care all

[Pauline]

I have just made seven bags and added them to my pod tally. These are my first since Christmas. I was just going to sew for a while but you get hooked once you start sewing.

[zappers]

I have just made seven bags and added them to my pod tally. These are my first since Christmas. I was just going to sew for a while but you get hooked once you start sewing.

absolutely

[scallywagbags]

Get your bids in for "guess the final total for the year" competition - but make sure you post your guess BEFORE 2000hrs GMT on Mon 14th Jan 2008 (no waiting until 2358hrs )

Happy Birthday morsbags

[Pauline]

Where do we put our guesses?

[scallywagbags]

just here Pauline - just reply to this post and type in your guess

[Pauline]

Okay...10,478

[kuhtams]

:D
Does your school / college have a newsletter you could get a mention in?

Actually my school does have a newspaper, and there was already an article about it! I keep meaning to scan it in for everyone but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. In fact I'll probably do it tonight now that you've mentioned it!

[scallywagbags]

Well the time is just past midnight, so now it is officially one year since morbags was born. I've had a trawl through the guesses of how many bags would be made and these are the ones I found:

Daffysil 10101
sazziej 10291
pol 10301
zappers 10356
Ibagyou 10373
Angiedesigns 10450
scallywagbags 10472
Pauline 10478
Squeak42 10500
Beattie 10525

The actual total recorded was 10465 morsbags


Erm I think its me! I never win ANYTHING - this must be a fix
If everyone is OK with this idea I propose to donate the prize to the next nearest guesser...which would be Pauline.

It is a great total whoever guessed closest - well done you baggers

[beattie]

Happy birthday morsbags.com! Here's your present -



Thanks for thinking of that Scallywagbags and congratulations, I think you might have won!!

[beattie]

Darn, you beat me! Our internet connection's been down again - it must be raining! Well done Scallywagbags! Your guess was ages ago & Pauline's was this afternoon, so you deserve it! I could donate another "prize" to you!

[squeak42]

wow - 10,508 so people added even more today

well done everybody - you make me feel really guilty but that's a good thing - I need a push!

[seabear]

WOW! Congratulations to you all! This is so impressive.

[scallywagbags]

....I never win ANYTHING - this must be a fix ......I propose to donate the prize to the next nearest guesser...which would be Pauline.....

Just a quick post to say that your amazingly extravagant prize is in now in the post to you Pauline.

And also to apologise for the big fat porky pie I posted about not winning anything - I won a wonderful prize courtesy of morsbags last year for the Virgin promotion, so morsbags must be lucky for me as well as the whales.
We'll be using our train tickets to have a weekend in Edinburgh, and we'll be using our morsbags so please do smile and wave if you see someone in Edinburgh with a useful looking morsbag

[Tracey]

This is such a great tally.

Tokyo bags have been busy on a different eco project. We made 414 eco chopstick rolls for people to carry around their own chopsticks. We made these for the Australia day charity ball that Kristen is helping to organise and I am one of the sponsors. The charities are mainly eco charities so we made these "MyHashi" based on a pattern that Kristen developed. See her Blog here for the pattern

Disposable wooden chopsticks are used everywhere here. 63 million pairs a day in Japan alone. That means deforestation and landfill for the disposal. So a movement encouraging people to carry their own chopsticks is starting to take off.

Now that this project is done, we can make some more morsbags. We have lots of things coming up. The workshop and giveaway at the kindergarten, publicity and also a girl scout group is keen to make Morsbags a project for the 9th graders.

Am so looking forward to morsbags as the MyHashi were a tad fiddly. Plus we were on a deadline which is never fun when we work full time and have volunteer work as well. Also there were heaps to make and it got quite tedious after the first 300 or so....

See my blog here for a photo of a pile of MyHashi. I used new fabric for this project as it was a sponsorship and we are saving all our donated fabric for mosbags.

Check my blog later for photos of Kristen and I in posh frocks and with our men all scrubbed and shiny.