Sewing
TO SUCCESS
By Melissa Walsh Photos Gary Sissons
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ou can’t keep a good woman down and the ladies at Mount Eliza Neighbourhood House are proving that with their fabulous work on the Boomerang Bag program. It’s what happens when the group gets together for sewing bees to create the handcrafted bags that are helping to save our planet and getting rid of the need for all plastic bags.
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28 | PENINSULA
September 2018
One of the women of the Boomerang Bags Mt Eliza is Eliza Foster, the woman behind the successful business, Made in the Shade, which she launched back in 1980. Fast forward 38 years and, although she has now sold the business, Eliza is still a go getter so the plan came to give back to the community.
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