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Short, slightly over-excited note to say that I've now seen my Bags for Japan in real life! They are brilliant (vain, I know), but they're also nice fabric and the print quality is great. If you've ordered one, hopefully they'll arrive soon - and if you haven't got one yet, why ever not? All proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross as before. And look! now there are T-Shirts too (this time designed by my husband from photos he took) ... SHOP FOR BAGS AND T-SHIRTS FOR JAPAN HERE

I've been thinking that I want to do more to help with the efforts in Japan. I'm not remotely athletic, so physical feats like doing a sponsored run are out of the question. I don't really bake, so I don't want to provide paltry efforts for the wonderful Cakes for Japan . I've not really got the time to auction stuff on eBay for the brilliant Bento4Japan campaign, much as I would like to take part. Then I realised that I had lots of rather nice photos that I'd taken in Japan which languished in this weird half-life on Flickr, as I'd never got round to printing them out. So I thought to myself, "I really like tote bags and I reckon others do - let's use those photos to make some bags for Japan". I played around with all the designs to make them a bit funkier, and I'm pretty pleased with how they came out. The bags are only £8 each and all proceeds will go directly to the Japanese Red Cross (that's £1.10 per bag). And there's free sh...