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Beautiful Vegan Catch-All Bag Giveaway!

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I’ve written before about one of my favorite online etailers – Borsa Bella Design Company.  The bags are gorgeous and SO very well made.  The quilting is beautiful and quite cushiony.  I get compliments on any of the bags I carry and have handed out a lot of Borsa Bella cards due to that.  On top of a really impressive product line, they have superb customer service.  When I recently had a small issue with a bag (first time ever), Melissa – the owner – immediately offered to fix it, and after I shipped it back it was returned repaired in less than a week.  These vegan friendly bags come in a variety of sizes and shapes, and an amazing array of fabrics.  I have several for Kindle, some smaller versions for carrying doo-dads, and one for my iPhone. When I thought I might get a Mac Airbook last year (right after it came out), I contacted Melissa and suggested that maybe the Airbook would be a good product for her to develop a bag to fit.  In only a couple of weeks, the bags were up on her site, and as soon as my Airbook arrived, I ordered my favorite – you can see it on the right.  It’s not only a beautiful bag, but it’s impressively protective.  I’ve dropped my Airbook (I know) twice in the bag on concrete and had exactly zero damage.  Have I mentioned how I love these bags?

As another indicator of her super coolness, Melissa has sent me two of her new catch-all bags to give to you, dear readers!  They are adorable little zipper bags with waterproof interiors that would be perfect for electronics, makeup, first aid – almost anything really. In fact, I can’t quite decide what to do with mine.  I’m not going to tell you what color the giveaway bags are to maintain the surprise! (but you can check out all the beautiful fabrics she offers here)

To enter the giveaway, visit Borsa Bella, and tell me what your favorite bag is in the comments below.   Get 1 extra entry each for subscribing to TheVeganAsana, following TheVeganAsana on Facebook, following BorsaBella on Facebook, or following me on Twitter.  There is a maximum of 5 entries per person.  Due to issues with me making it to the post office during business hours, I unfortunately will be limiting this contest to U.S. addresses. Leave me a comment below for any extras you complete.  Entries will be accepted until 12:01 a.m. on November 13th.  Random drawing for a winner will be held and announced on the 13th.

Good luck!

And the winners, as selected in a random drawing by the And The Winner is plug-in are:  Lynn~The Learning Curves Blogger and Angie @ Many Little Blessings.   I’ll contact you soon regarding mailing.  Congratulations and enjoy the adorable bags.

Thanks to everyone who entered!

Ringing in the New Year at The VeganAsana House

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As is our usual plan, on new year’s eve, we spent the evening at home with the family, eating until we almost exploded, watching movies (including Despicable Me and a couple of Marx Brothers films), and drinking exciting things like soda and water.  It’s a fun family tradition, and even the 19 year old elected to stay for the first part of the night.  The menu was not entirely vegan, but it was mostly vegetarian (except for some sliced pepperoni and a little ground beef for nachos) and there was plenty of vegan faire.

The featured item was nachos, including tortilla chips, vegan refried beans, regular shredded cheese and Daiya, con queso, ground beef, salsa, regular and vegan sour cream, black and green olives, and hot sauce.  I think everyone had more than one plate of that!  We also had veggies with ranch and (vegan) French onion dip, potato chips, crackers with cheese and pepperoni, mozzarella sticks, and vegan chocolate chip cookies (recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance).  I had planned to make big pretzels as well, but realized that there was already a lot of food on the table, so I stopped!

The children anxiously awaited the official “starting time” of the gorging yourself portion of NYE and, when released to begin at about 6:45, they descended on the table en masse.

Luckily, this year, no one became violently ill (even with the combination of nachos, cookies, and orange soda that one consumed) and much fun was had by all!

Happy new year!