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Wendyloo Handbags and Yoga Mat Bags-Style with a Conscience
Wendyloo handbags are currently available:
Exhale Yoga (980 Madision Ave & Central Park West, NYC)
April thru December at the Our Lady of Pompeii Art Market in the West Village (NYC) on Bleecker Street between 6th and 7th Ave's.
....and coming very soon on this site!!!!
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Cool SlideshowsDesigner Wendy Luker created the first Wendyloo handbags in 2001 (and incorporated in 2003) as an antidote to her post-graduate school brain fatigue. Now Wendyloos have been seen on NBC’s “Crossing Jordan”, A-list and indie actresses, political scions, and fashionable women of conscience from New York to California, Canada to Singapore and across Europe.
Amidst the vacuous superficiality of fashion,Wendyloo is style with a conscience.
Wendyloos are sweatshop-free, highly personal handbags with a spirit. They’re produced at the MCIF Center, a women’s collective in Brooklyn, NY. When you buy a Wendyloo, you get more than a great bag, you’re creating financial empowerment for economically disadvantaged women. (Go to wendyloo.com, click on “You and Wendyloo” and meet Maria and Romana, two of Wendyloo’s MCIF stitchers.) Additionally, ten percent of the sale of select bags is donated to the MCIF Center. With Wendyloo, you look good and feel good at the same time.
Each bag is signed by the woman who sewed it. “Everything we wear is constructed by somebody somewhere,” Luker observes. “Wendyloos are handmade at the MCIF Center in Brooklyn, not some faceless factory. I believe my stitchers’ excellent craftsmanship should be recognized. The energy of their time and attention is sewn into each Wendyloo.”
Nearly every handbag incorporates recycled materials such as vintage linens, thrift store finds or yardage contributed by friends of Wendyloo. These bags exude a sense of fun and exclusivity for their owners. They are capricious yet durable, combining practical functionality with a sense of play.
Wendyloo bag interiors are as important as the exteriors for Luker. “I like to do fun or surprising linings that are like a secret just for the owner of the bag. And every bag must have pockets!”
Wendyloo bag production is a family affair. Wendy's dad, Rohn Luker, makes each Wendyloo Pagoda purse handle in his workshop in Mason City, Iowa. On a band saw, he cuts them from a pattern Wendy designed, sands them on a drum sander by hand, and stains and seals, or paints, the handles made of oak or maple.
Like her grandmothers’ quilts, every Wendyloo creation has a story--each as individual as the woman who carries it.
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My Interests

What's Wendy thinking about?
Former jihadist Hassan Butt renounces violence in the name of Islam

Chuck Gutenson blog entry: Taking Radical Islam Seriously

96 yr.old author proves it's never too late

"If you're the prayin' kind...
Prayer works. God always hears you. Join Wendy in praying this week for the following below. If you have a prayer request, please let me know!

1) Peace and reconciliation instead of "an eye for an eye" in any conflict anywhere.
2) Total remission/elimination of my friend, Karen's father's (Richard Lacy) cancer. Miraculously, he's past the 9 months the doctors gave him and the tumors haven't spread further.
3) That all adoptable children and animals in the world will find happy, loving homes. Especially those at Robin's Nest Children's Home in Montego Bay, Jamaica. (see link in "Wendy likes...")

Food for Thought
"It is better to begin in the evening than not at all" --english proverb

"Try? There is no 'try'. Only 'do' or 'not do'." --Yoda

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" --Gandhi

Wendyloo likes...

I went on a volunteer mission to Robin's Nest in Feb. '07. My heart was profoundly affected by those little cuties. Support them, serve them, adopt them.
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I'd like to meet:

You!Wendyloo has happy clients from all over the world including Canada, France, England, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, Iceland, Denmark, Spain and more.

Do you have a Wendyloo?
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Music:

U2, Beatles, Regina Spektor, Gwen Stefani, world music, classical music, bossa nova, Brazilian music, old french music....

Movies:

Moulin Rouge, Lost in Translation, Blues Brothers, Marry Poppins, Walk the Line

Television:

Lost, The Office, CBS Sunday Morning, I don't watch a whole lot of tv....

Books:

I read all kinds of stuff....Capote, Rumi, Annie Lammott, Jane Austen,I read a lot of non-fiction.

Heroes:

Ghandi, Jesus, MLK Jr., Bono, my parents, and all my ancestors.

My Blog

October Greeting from Wendy (Oct, 2007)

Hello, Wonderful Wendyloo friends:     Check out the generous, write-up Wendyloo got on the groovy website--Indie Fixx! It came completely out of the blue and has me tickled pink! :) http:/...
Posted by Wendyloo on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:48:00 PST

Exciting Wendyloo News! (April 1, 2007)

Dear Everyone who's ever heard of/prayed for/supported me and Wendyloo, Inc.:     Exciting Wendyloo news!:   1) Wendyloo is in its first store window!     For those...
Posted by Wendyloo on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:23:00 PST

Wendyloo Myspace Under Construction! (Feb. 2, 2007)

Under construction......stay tuned! cp (Wendyloo's webmaster)
Posted by Wendyloo on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:08:00 PST

You and Wendyloo!

Do you have a Wendyloo? We'd love to see photos of you with your Wendyloo!...
Posted by Wendyloo on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:16:00 PST