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Byline: Sam Kennedy

Sep. 16--The walls of a room in Lynn Teles' Hanover Township home are lined with cabinets and drawers that organize her collection of vintage 1940s fabric, buttons, ribbons and milinary flowers. At the window is the sewing machine, where the former home economics teacher mixes and matches those ingredients to make "clutch" handbags.

Camera and lighting equipment is in another room. This is where each bag is photographed so digital images can be displayed on a Web site.

"This is just what I love to do," Teles said of making 1940s-styled clutches, which are strapless, oblong purses held under the arm.

Her passion is ...

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