Jessie’s Bags…
I would like to introduce myself to you…..
I am a Tote bag,
I am Hand made by Jessie an 86 year old 3 time breast
cancer survivor and her daughter.
I started my life as fabric in a high end designers shop. I might
have lived in Bethany beach DE or on the Main line Philadelphia PA or maybe it
was West Chester PA or Glenn Mills maybe it was Wilmington DE. My fellow pieces of fabric and I have grown
old we are out of date or season. The designers have moved on to newer fabrics
and colors we have become trash to the designers they don’t want us anymore..
Oh wow… Someone wants us. Jessie and her daughter they traveled for 2
hours to pick us up, and rescue us. Yea!
Someone wants us we are not going in
the dumpster. We are being recycled or is it up cycled!!!! A whole new life for us! What will I be where
will I go?
Jessie’s daughter is putting us together. Oh wow I would
never have put this color or design with that one but I like it….
Where are we going next? Is that a nursing home, senior
center retirement community am I in Reading PA? What will happen next? I haven’t
been sewn yet. Who are all these people? Some in wheel chairs, these people have
walkers, does he have Alzheimer’s disease what will they do to me.
Hay! These people
like me. Look at how they are feeling the textures; woe they love all of the colors
they are putting us together. Is that the shape of a bag... Jessie’s daughter
is saying just pick out two pieces that you like. They like us , they are
smiling they are enjoying touching us…
what is happening over there those are
just scraps cut off little pieces too small you can’t sew that… What’s happening?
Did that small piece of scrap material just become a bow… this is so exciting I
can’t believe what’s happening we are being transformed into new stuff …where
am I headed next?
Oh, I recognize this
it a sewing machine. We are being permanently attached. In a patch work style…I
like it.
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| Jessie' sewing ! |
It’s Jessie again what is she doing closing up my sides,
turning down the top, I’m getting handles.
I’m a bag, a tote Bag.
This is a strange new world…
It’s not over where to next. I’m being gift wrapped… she is
putting a card on me.
What does it say…?
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| a chair or a Bag... |
“A joyful heart is good medicine” we hope this bag helps you
be joyful. Wow a quote from the bible... I’m designed to make someone happy I thought I was just trash.
Where are they taking me? Look at all the pink ribbons this is a breast cancer
event… oh this looks like a nice lady …I’m being given to her as a gift… she is
reading the note I think there are tears in her eyes. Oh wow someone loves me
& cherishes this gift…this new me a bag.
This is a strange new world… I thought I would live in some
High end home on a couch or chair I am a Designer Fabric....
I never expected to
be used in this way…now as a bag I go places every day. My new owner carries
all kinds of goodies’ in me. She takes me everywhere, are we going on a trip,
Maybe it’s to her chemo appointment again. I hope they will be done soon so we
can get on with life…wonder where we will travel… Oh boy. Just think I could
have ended up on a chair or a couch how boring…. I love my life… meeting all
those people being… loved… hand made with love…
I’m one of “Jessie’s Bags”!