Ok you guys & gals this is it !  The ultimate gift for Christmas, this 
was in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday and I thought it should be shared with 
you all !  Enjoy !

Bags: To be sold by silent auction
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       There are shopping bags, plastic bags, evening bags, waist pouches and 
backpacks. And creativity ran unchecked, with condoms and cookie pans, hu�man 
hair, piano parts and live fish finding their way into the designs.
       Allson Smith-Welsh recycled a girdle, sewing zippers into the bra cups 
to safeguard valuables. And Wal-Mart saleswoman Carole Hebert spent more than 
80 hours creating an ostrich egg purse lined with ostrich skin and closing 
with a feather clasp. Learning how to process the skin alone took three weeks.
       Seeing a pair of shiny VW van hubcaps in a junkyard reminded sculptor 
Lynne Lalonde of a friend who once drove from British Columbia to Ottawa in a 
beat-up van.
"She was as colourful and playful and representing of freedom as her old VW," 
she says. And the hubcaps reminded her of a time when people were more active 
in social causes. "Today we 'talk about it but we don't go into the streets 
any-more. I find that alarming," she says.  "Maybe it (her "Peace and Love" 
bag) will make us speak about these times more often and we'll go back into 
the street and protest."
Ms. Lalonde's Peace and Love bag, along with the other works of art, will 
sell by silent auction on Dec. 15.
       There is a $200 minimum bid, which can be waived at the de�signer's 
discretion.

Click here >< <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/graphics/misc/vwpurse.jpg"><http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/graphics/misc/vwpurse.jpg</A> to see 
this lovely purse ! 

Cheers ���

Frank Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
'87 Westy & Lionel Trains
<Member: <A HREF="http://www.vanagon.com/"><Vanagon List</A><, <A HREF="http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/"><LiMBO</A><, <A HREF="http://www.westfalia.qc.ca/CIW_English.asp"><IWCCC</A> & Capital City VW Club 
Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley
<<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm"><STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless Steel Mufflers</A> �
<<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html">Frank Condelli &< Associates</A> or http://frankcondelli.com

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