The Bag Hags

 It has been a while since we have written, but we have not had a show in a while.  We had one scheduled in Fredericksburg last weekend and it was a total disaster.  Not only did Tessie get sick, but our brand new tent collapsed. (It was defective)  The rain didn't help either.  Then on Friday we had a pretty nice day, but it was windy.  We were afraid for our other tent, so almost as soon as we were set up we decided to tear down and give up for the weekend.  Then our new tent wouldn't fit in the van because one leg wouldn't fold up.  We had to leave it so we left it up against the shack behind us, called my husband to bring his truck on Saturday (the next day) and we left thinking that Saturday would be a better day.  (Now the people around us were all aware of what happened and what we were doing.  Well, as you can probably already surmise, our tent was stolen.  No only stolen, but picked clean.  They pulled off the canopy and stole every screw, nut and washer and left the skeleton in peices by the trash can.  Well I lost it.  (cried)  Poor Tessie was standing there trying to comfort me like I did her when we found the tent collapsed.  (That's when she lost it!)  We waited for Steve to get there, but checked out the rest of the show, which is a great show I have to say.  They are there every 3rd week of the month and are well worth going to.  I tell ya, I was shooting for bear the whole time though.  If I had found our canopy I think those people would have gotten a pretty good reaming out along with a call from the police.  Luckily I didn't find them and of course no one would tell us who took it. 

 

On a brighter note though we have been accepted to the Texas Peddler Show and are trying to get in in Fredericksburg at the end of November.  We also have a show the first weekend of November at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church here in San Antonio.  If you haven't been to that show, it is one well worth going to for Christmas Gifts.   You can find jewelry, glass crosses, quilts, olive wood nativities, aprons, fruit cake, etc.  Now I have to say I don't like fruit cake, but this fruit cake is to die for.  It is soooo good.  He gives out samples and my two girls will circle around to try to get more samples just so they can eat more cake.  Hope to see ya'll there.  I will update you on the Fredericksburg show on when it is.  It will be at the Gillespie County Fairgrounds. 

 Well, as you can see we have added quite a few more bags to our picture album.  We will be adding several more next week once the camera has had time to charge back up.  It ran out of juice in the middle of taking pictures, so we did not get pictures of all of the bags.  The pictures just don't do them justice and I just can't get the handles in.  I don't know if everyone knows this, but the handles of the majority of our bags are made out of belts.  We try to find unusual belts and we also try to leave as much of the belt intact as we can including the buckle.  We feel that this is one of the things that sets us apart from other who are making bags and we are very proud of it.