Articles & Photos in Haute Handbags

Volume III Spring 2008 In this issue, Haute Handbags published two articles I wrote ~ one featuring two of my free-form crochet purses and the other about a tote bag made by my art group. Click on the cover below to see the magazine in a new window.
Free-Form Crochet Purses	Ephemerites' Collage Bag
This article is about some free-form crochet purses that I made - not bad for a girl who doesn't know how to crochet!!!!! However, free-form crochet can be so much more than what I did. Click here to see the purses up close.	This article is about a collaged and altered tote bag made by my art group, The Ephemerites. We had already done a round robin of tote bags for ourselves when we decided to make one for publication in Haute Handbags. After the tote was returned, we donated it to the Oklahoma City Canterbury Choral Society's annual Masquerade Ball and Auction. Our purse was in the silent auction with a starting bid of $150. Next to the bag (and included with it in the auction) was a copy of the magazine opened to this article. Apparently there was a bit of a bidding war because there were two sheets of bids and, in the end, the purse raised $775!!!