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Michelle on shopping spree
New delhi:Indian textiles and handicrafts charmed their way into michelle obama's shopping bag monday as the us first lady almost ran out of money, picking up bedspreads, ganeshas and wooden toys which, she said, would make for ideal christmas gifts!

Michelle went on a shopping spree after arriving at the national handicrafts and handloom museum in pragati maidan complex at 10.45 am.She was in the museum for nearly two hours, shooting well past her onehour scheduled programme.

"Michelle was so impressed Louis Vuitton Bags uk with the indian handicrafts on display that she did not want to leave the museum.She went on a shopping binge, buying almost everything that she came across,"Said ghosh.

Michelle said she would have bought more had she been left with more money, those at the museum said.

The us first lady exhausted her shopping budget at the crafts museum and said the indian craft items were ideal gifts of christmas, barely oneandahalf months away!

She was clad in the same black and green dress she had worn at mahatma gandhi's memorial rajghat and from where she drove down in an eightvehicle convoy to the crafts museum while her husband and us president barack obama left for hyderabad house for talks with prime minister manmohan singh.

Her shopping list included four embroidered kantha bed spreads, kutchi mobile phone bags, kutchi dolls and a from gujarati 'yogi thaila', which was a cloth bag with sequins and heavy embroidery.

Michelle also bought wooden toys from karnataka, wooden key chains, three wooden ganeshas and a wooden toy train.Part of the gifts she bought were also elephants and fans made of rice grain and rice stalk.

Also on display for the first lady were patachitra art from west bengal, phulkari weaves from punjab, phoosa art from karnataka, dushala shawls from jammu and kashmir and handicrafts from himachal pradesh.

About 20 women artisans from across Ralph Lauren Outlet the country exhibited their work on the occasion.

Michelle was impressed by the rich legacy of indian crafts.

She also interacted with 15 underprivileged girls of an ngo who make handicraft items for a living and showed a keen interest in the welfare of the girl child, museum sources said.

To add to her cultural experience were 'baul' folk singers from west bengal.

The museum, which is usually closed monday, was kept open specially for the first lady.

The museum was set up over a period of 30 years starting in the 1950s when the area adjacent to the pragati maidan was envisaged as a craft zone for artisans to work for the preservation of traditional art.
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The legislation was passed earlier this year in response to the estimated 40 million singleuse plastic bags used every year, causing problems with landfill, wildlife and littering.

Over the next four months territory retailers will be using the last of their polyethylene polymer bags and providing alternatives.

Shoppers will now start carting their purchases in paper, cloth, green, heavy use or biodegradable plastic bags.

Failure to phase out all the plastic bags by the ban in september could see retailers or suppliers hit with a hefty fine.

Fresh produce market stall owner peter from virginia told julia christensen on 105.7 ABC Darwin that some of his customers are going to be hard to convince.

"As a stall holder i am expecting quite a problem with some customers.

"Fifty percent are fine but there are some who will have some real reservations they can't get a plastic bag off me no matter how often i tell them it's going to be impossible. "