Tessie villarama biography

Conversations with “bayong bag lady,” Scholastican Teresita Batista Villarama, occupied my week quite happily. 

A true Piscean, (March 17) she has always had the heart for the arts.

“Even as a young girl, I would dabble in drawing and painting,” she says. “I would also fancy making paper dolls and fashioning their clothes after Grace Kelly. As I grew older, my love for anything artistic transferred to designing handbags, which in turn made me venture into a handbag- making business named ‘Sew and Sew’ corporation. I patterned my denim bags on air letter envelopes, with handpainted designs of Raggedy Ann and Andy in the front.

The bags were such a big hit I became a supplier at Cinderella’s.” 

Tessie at 45, with all her children having graduated from university entered into show business. She says she felt she needed to channel&nbs