Burlap bags for sack races. Updated 5/16/2023

Sack Race Bags $4.00 each.
Used Burlap Coffee Bags.

The sack race sometimes called ‘potato sack race’ is a competitive game in which participants place both of their legs inside a sack (or pillow case) that reaches their waist or neck.

Then they have to hop forward from a starting point toward a finish line. The first person to cross the finish line is the winner of the sack race!

You remember. You stuck your right leg in a burlap sack and your uncle stuck his left leg in the same sack—together you feverishly hopped toward the glory of the finish line at the family reunion. Well the sack race is back!

There are numerous variations to sack racing rules. Here are just a few suggestions for you—but half of the fun of these games is putting your own spin on the rules! So get out there and be creative!

Individual Sack Race:
To play you need one burlap sack for each individual participant. The more people racing, the more fun it is.

• Participants will run to the sack, put both feet in and begin hopping toward the finish line.
• Contestants must keep both feet in sack and at least one hand on the sack at all times.
• The sack must remain as close to the waist as possible and should not fall below the knees.
• The first racer to the finish line wins.

Relay Race:
To play you need one burlap sack for each participant or team. The more people racing, the more fun it is.

• Each player puts both legs into sack and hops around a cone, or some marked point, and back, tagging the next person in line.
• Then, the next person in line gets into the sack and repeats the once-around the cone course.
• The first team to the finish line wins.

Note: The relay race can be done with individual participants or two-person teams. The two-person teams can fit both team members in the same sack, or by placing one leg each inside for the “Three-Legged Race.”

Team Sack Race:
To play you need one burlap sack for each team. The more teams racing, the more fun it is.

• Start with 8 people per team (or an even number); 4 people on each side of the field (or applicable number if starting with less than 8 per team).
• Start the race on one end and have each person tag the next in the other line. Continue until the team finishes.
• The first team to the finish line wins.

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Kids seem to put their "all" into these races, so in their excitement to win, we saw lots of falls, so grass is the best place to have your races! 

In addition, you need plenty of space between your racers - so the imaginary lines should be about 4 - 5 feet across so racers do not run into each other.

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Tampa Handmade Handbags . Updated 5/1/2023

Handbags Made in Tampa Florida. Famous Reuse Artist Hongkongwillie.

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Artist Born for this time, Lived on a landfill as a child in Tampa. Reuse Became the way of life. To read the story from the inception of the Name Hong Kong Willie. Famed, by the humble statements from the Key West Citizen, viable art from reuse has found its time. To Live a life in the art world and be so blessed to make a social impact. Artists are to give back, talent is to tell a story, to make change. Reuse is a life experience.
Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery In Tampa, a reuse Art Gallery. Artist Kim,Derek,and Joseph. reuse artist that have lived the life and are meant for the green movement in the world. A gallery that was born for this time. Artist living a freegan life,art that makes a social statement of reuse. Media that has a profound effect in making the word green truly a movement of reuse in the world today and the future.

 Reuse artist.
Hong Kong Willie. Artist of the 60’s in the now. Acclaimed Florida folk artist, Living the Life of using objects for many uses. Follow the travels of life.

Description

Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
Source: Third Generation Coffee Roaster
Stitching: Recovered Yarn
Handle, Label, Pocket:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing (HKW)
Inner Pocket: 1
Appliques:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing, Coffee Bag Ebmlems Hand-Stitched
Length(Strap to Bottom)-27"
Actual Length-16"
Width-17"
Lining from ex-rocker now artist, currently located in Key West.

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Handbags

made in Tampa Florida

Description

Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
Source: Third Generation Coffee Roaster
Stitching: Recovered Yarn
Handle: Baseball Panel
Source: Recovered Game-Used Baseball
Source: Tampa Bay
Handle, Label, Pockets:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing (HKW)
Inner Pockets: 2
Outer Pocket: Tampa Bay Buccaneer (Artist Worn)
Dimensions:
Length(Strap to Bottom)-29"
Actual Length-19"
Width-11"

Hong Kong Willie. The name of the artist. In 1958 his mother took Hong Kong Willie to an art class. The name started then. An art teacher when doing crafts out of Gerber baby bottles, made a statement, in Hong Kong reuse was common. At that time he thought this was very interesting. His father had low-land, at that time landfills were common also. The county had told Hong Kong Willie’s father, it was safe, but as we now know this was not so. Something can come from bad to be good. Hong Kong Willie the name came from that art teacher impressing on that young mind that objects made for one use could be for many other uses. Hong Kong for the neat concept. Willie for an American name. So for many years Hong Kong Willie had a life of reuse. Hong Kong Willie saw forms in a different light, His life now was meaningful, knowing this was and would be his life. Art made from found objects, making less of a footprint on this world. Art and art teachers, HOW IMPORTANT. For the ones that have, and the ones who have not. Media can be found. Now 50 years later, we know now being green is important. We need to look at this very carefully. Our children and our world need a different understanding. Objects can be used in many different ways. Hong Kong Willie the tons of objects in his life that have been used, without much change, So for that art teacher what she did for my life. Thank You. I still have the Gerber baby bottle till this day. Hong Kong Willie.

Hong Kong Willie Preservation Art Group

Things to Do in Tampa Florida .Updated 1/1/2022

Information on the Tampa Bay area,Famous Reuse Artist. Small Roadside Trip. Packs a lot of social meaning.
Summer short trip to see some in simple reuse. Artist trying to make a living to GIVE BACK.
Reuse artist.
Hong Kong Willie. Artist of the 60’s in the now. Acclaimed Florida folk artist, Living the Life of using objects for many uses. Follow the travels of life.

GOOGLE HONG KONG WILLIE

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Artist Born for this time, Lived on a landfill as a child. Reuse Became the way of life. To read the story from the inception of the Name Hong Kong Willie. Famed, by the humble statements from the Key West Citizen, viable art from reuse has found its time. To Live a life in the art world and be so blessed to make a social impact. Artists are to give back, talent is to tell a story, to make change. Reuse is a life experience.
Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery In Tampa, a reuse Art Gallery. Artist Kim,Derek,and Joseph. reuse artist that have lived the life and are meant for the green movement in the world. A gallery that was born for this time. Artist living a freegan life,art that makes a social statement of reuse. Media that has a profound effect in making the word green truly a movement of reuse in the world today and the future.

Hongkongwillie

Preservation Art Group

Recycling as a Lifestyle and a Business
Tampa Art Galleries. Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery
By:
Chris Futrell, Florida Focus

TAMPA, Fla. – Have you ever seen the building on the corner of Fletcher and I-75 with a bunch of buoys strung everywhere? This small business that many think is an old bait n’ tackle shop is actually Hong Kong Willie.

Derek Brown, 26, and his family own and operate Hongkongwillie . The little shop specializes in preservation art. The artists don’t take preservation too lightly either.

“99 percent of everything that has gone into a piece of art has been recycled and reused,” Brown said.

Just as unique as the art is, so is the company’s name. Brown says the name was created by his father, Joe Brown, in the 1950s.

“My father being in an art class, being affected by a teacher, they were melting Gerber baby food bottles," Brown said. "The teacher interjected that Hong Kong had a great reuse and recycling program even then.”

Brown's father then took that concept and later added the Americanized name Willie to the end. And that's how Hongkongwillie was born as a location that offers recycling in a different and creative way.

Hongkongwillie  artists are what are known as freegans. Freegans are less concerned with materialistic things and more concerned about reducing consumption to lessen the footprint humans leave on this planet.

“I’m sure everyone has their own perception of a freegan, possibly jumping into a dumpster or picking up something on the side of the road,” Brown said. “There [are] people who will have excess. There [are] also things that can be trash to one man, but art or a prize to another man.”

Brown and his family carry this practice through to their art. It’s his family’s way of life, turning trash, which would otherwise fill up landfills, into an art form.

The Brown family gets a lot of their inspiration for their art from the Florida Keys. In fact, this is where the deluge of buoys wrapping around the ‘Buoys Tree’ came from, the fishermen of Key West.

“It is Styrofoam, we understand that it does not degrade, but to blame the fishermen for their livelihood wouldn’t be correct, instead we find a usage for those,” Brown said.

Brown said there’s a usage for everything, even the hooks to hold the painted driftwood, which are also salvaged, to the wall are old bent forks. Everything’s reused here. Purses made out of old coffee bean sacks to “kitschy,” as Brown described it, jewelry made from old baseballs.

Hongkongwillie  truly believes that a piece, whether it’s a bag or a painted artwork, it’s meant for one person.”
Tampa Art Galleries.Hongkongwillie Art Gallery

Black Bird

of Key Largo

“Black Bird of Key Largo”

The allurement of the winds blowing in the palm trees and the moon shining through and the “Black Bird of Key Largo” looking upon.
Hongkongwillie
**Hongkongwillie artist Kim Brown, chose aged Florida sawmill stock as canvas. Recovered Brass Hanger: Key West lobster trap rigging. Originally connects and suspends rigging of spiny lobster traps in Key West waters. Candy-like appearance due to multiple protective layers. Assigned number in artist register by Fisherman ID tag, corresponding burn-etched # rear of piece. Key recovered by Robert Jordan, acclaimed treasure hunter: also in identification of piece and artist.
*Prior to shipping, final coating will be applied to each piece.
Dimensions:
24″ L
8″ W
4″ H
Weight: 17+ LB