Hi everyone, I'm turning my blog over to Marsha today, a great Canadian blogger who is going to kick of our Canada 150 - In the Bag Blog Tour.  I can't wait for you to see all of the amazing handmade bag projects that are going to be shown on the tour! Oh, and the prize list is LOADED! Here's Marsha:

Happy Birthday, Canada!!

Come on, everybody!

The quiet neighbours up the street are throwing a massive party to celebrate their sesquicentennial (150th) birthday and the whole world is invited. Tout le monde est invité. Kick your shoes off, grab a cold can of Molson Canadian, and join the festivities. If beer isn't your thing, we have wine — lots of it because we make our own.

Bet you didn't know how many talented handbag and wallet designers and makers are in the house! We didn't know either until we went snooping around. For the rest of this week, 10 blogging sewists from coast to coast will feature bags and wallets they've made with patterns from our homegrown designers. Some of the designers, like Janelle, are well-seasoned and ready for the grill, and some are as fresh as Manitoba sweet corn on the cob in August.

We've harangued several of our Canadian suppliers into providing prizes and they all add up to an epic giveaway scheduled for June 10. But each of the bloggers is also giving away a special prize so you will have to visit all the blogs to enter individually. That's right! It's our birthday and we're giving you prezzies! (Just say thanks, and watch us blush.)

Get yourself a plate of maple-smoked bacon, Quebec cheese and fresh veggies from farm country. Pick up a glass of wine from one of our wine regions, check out the tour agenda below, and get read to mix and mingle with warm, friendly, hospitable northerners. We've got everything you could ever need. And if you don't like our weather, wait 5 minutes. (Corny old Canadian joke.)

Come on in and let the party begin. Just don't peek in our medicine cabinet. That's not polite. ;)

Bonne fête, Canada !

Marsh

PS. You must try ice wine from Niagara at least once in your life. Put it on your bucket list.

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Each blog has an exclusive giveaway, so be sure to visit them all.

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Tour Discounts

• 10% off! Tangled Blossoms Design is offering 10% off anything in stock for the duration of the tour. Offer expires June 10, 2017. Use discount code HAPPYBIRTHDAYCANADA

• 15% off! Bringberry Handbag Hardware and Design is offering 15% off anything in stock for the duration of the tour. Offer expires June 10, 2017. Use discount code LOVECANADA150

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Tour Stops

(These links will be active on and after the day they are scheduled.)

June 4

June 5

June 6

June 7

June 8

June 9

June 10

July 1

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Giveaway Prizes

• Grand Prize: 2 PDF patterns from Blue Calla Patterns, $50 voucher from Bringberry Handbag Hardware and Design, $40 voucher from Fabric Please
• Second Prize: 2 PDF patterns from Blue Calla Patterns, $35 voucher from Emmaline Bags, $25 voucher from MM Cork Supply
• Third Prize: $50 voucher from Blackbird Fabrics
• $30 voucher to spend on any in stock fabrics from Tangled Blossoms Design, 1 Pattern from Thread Riding Hood
• $25 voucher from Fabric Please, 1 Pattern, plus hardware kit from Emmaline Bags
• $25 voucher from Fabric Please, 1 PDF Pattern from Thread Riding Hood
• $25 voucher from Fabric Please, 1 PDF Pattern from FABulous Home Sewn
• $25 voucher from Fabric Please, 1 PDF Pattern from FABulous Home Sewn
• $30 voucher from Sitka Fabrics
• $25 voucher from MM Cork Supply
• Ooh La La Jewellery* bag pattern & hardware kit from Among Brenda’s Quilts (Includes shipping within Canada & USA.)
• A selection of items for bag making from Flare Fabrics (Includes shipping within Canada.)
• $25 voucher from Stay Home Fabrics
• $25 voucher from Funky Monkey Fabrics
• Store credit for 1 yard of custom knit from Crookshanks Custom Textiles
• Store credit equal to one meter of custom knit plus one meter of solid from Midnight Mountain Fabrics

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Meet Our Sponsors!!

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  Please join us in thanking our tour sponsors by visiting their websites.

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* Jewellery is the Canadian spelling.  


Thanks Marsha!  So that's it for this stop on the Canada 150 blog tour, make sure you check back and stop in to the next 3 blogs tomorrow!  Thanks of reading! Janelle