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Silver Metallics, Recycled
Silver Metallics, Recycled, featuring
Sterling Silver Flower Necklace using Precious Metal Clay (PMC). PMC is recycled fine silver, made from pure silver particles that are recycled & reclaimed from scraps, x-ray and film plates. Made by Lumoi in London
Musical Chime necklace, specially designed for a modern recycling fan who is musically inclined. Made by Jewels of Sayuri in India.
Fine lines Ear rings, made from recycled culinary items crafted with care by qualified jeweller Greg Mann in his studio in Melbourne.
Repurposed scrabble tile keychains, made by I Am The Mandy in Central Kansas, USA
“Goose” Recycled Bolt Creature, made by Craftworks Cambodia, in the urban city of Phnom Penh.
iCAN Wall Lighting2, recycled aluminum can wall light, made by Creative Thinking in the USA
Creating recycled bolt creatures, by Craftworks Cambodia producer’s, in the urban city of Phnom Penh
House pin made from a recycled souvenir spoon, made from recycled culinary items crafted with care by qualified jeweller Greg Mann in his studio in Melbourne.
Recycled Highway Billboard Bags: Pinto Bags
Have you seen Pinto Bags clutch bag range on Recycled Market?
Pinto Bags as seen on the catwalk:
Which colour would you choose?
More colours to choose from here
Hubcap Flowers as seen on Blue Velvet Chair
Recycled hubcaps, become wall flower garden feature as seen on Blue Velvet Chair
With a clever DIY tutorial here
Masculinity (cars) vs femininity (flowers) in recycled artform, clever!Cape & Wing PDF Patterns
Fun Costume Cape pattern and tutorial, to make from recycled t-shirts, shirts and scrap material. SUITABLE FOR BEGINNER SEWISTS!
The Costume Cape is designed with upcycling a men’s dress shirt and fabric scraps! There is a safe & simple velcro-neck closure and easy-to-wear elastic arm bands. Each wing is decorated with pretty “FEATHER” ruffle layers. Sure to become a favorite dress-up for all! Can be created for either a boy or a girl, simply changing fabric choices.
The Costume Cape can be made to fit babies to adult sizing. Perfect for anyone enjoying a medieval festival…or just trying to flutter around being a fairy. Think about adjusting the colors in a brown color scheme to mimic a wise, old owl or go for a selection of greens and make your favorite fire breathing dragon. The possibilities are ENDLESS!
Wings for girls, or cape for boys http://www.recycled-market.com/CHICKEN-HILL
Red Hot and Recycled!
Today’s blog post, relates to recycled products found on Recycled Market, the theme today, is red.
Red Hot & Recycled featuring
Leggings made with fabric production excess material, by Bartinki
Introducing Factory on the Moon
Market Browsing
We stumbled upon a few recycled treasures at Mornington Racecourse Marketthis morning
by Beyond the Picket Fence
Introducing Rutis Roots, Origami Recycled Paper Gifts
Ruti is 26 years old, born and raised in Jerusalem, currently studying Occupational Therapy in the city of Haifa, Israel.
She has always loved art – painting, sculpting, photographing, designing, beading and more.
In recent years she has been drawn to the magic of folding recycled paper and creating various works of art with them.
This kind of art combines her passion for shaping and color-matching, with her love for nature, while attempting to preserve and reuse pre-existing materials.
Ruti’s colorful stylish products can add a lot of grace and peace to a home or work environment.
Recycling Facts
Facts and figures sourced from around the net
“It takes 70% less energy to make recycled paper, and 95% less energy to make recycled aluminium cans than it does when using new raw materials. It takes 125 plastic milk bottles to make one 140 litre recycled plastic wheelie bin.” source City of Port Phillip Community Environment eHub
“Aluminium and steel cans, glass bottles, PET bottles, and most cardboard are made from recycled materials and are usually recyclable after use. Choose items with this kind of packaging rather than packaging made entirely from virgin raw materials. It’s important to buy recycled as this creates a demand for recycled materials and supports the recycling industries.” source PlanetArk
“When we do not recycle at least our glass or aluminum we cost the earth in power usage, water and oil usage and landfill usage; glass takes up to 4000 years to decompose in a landfill yet can be recycled indefinitely.” source Environment Green
“If 300,000 people would stop junk mail coming to their home, they could save half a million trees.”
First Featured Seller - Siamese Dream Design
We have our first featured seller interview with Barbara and Amy, of Siamese Dream Design.
We are an expat mother and daughter team, originally from the USA. We have always had a passion for the eclectic and never really embraced mainstream consumerism. For many years it was just the two of us and we reveled in our ability to create and recreate everything under the sun. Not even knowing we were “recycling and repurposing”. Anything we had or found was fair game for a new project. Embossed drapes found in Grandma’s basement became a fantastic mermaid skirt, a unique lamp from a garage sale would get a complete make over, sheets became new window swags and coordinating cushion covers. As we began to travel and were exposed to an array of ethnic textiles, a new obsession was born.
We find an item, a piece of textile art seeped in ethnic traditions. The wheels begin to turn, ” a handbag like this….. no a little jacket with…. a skirt, boots, shoes,” and we’re off. Ethnic textiles repurposed into modern fashion and home decor items.
We love working with the different ethnic groups, helping the women keep their culture alive by turning their age old traditions into modern products and marketing them to a global audience, thereby providing them with financial stability. As we grow, it is our goal that our work will reach a large enough audience that we will be able to further diversify the ethnic groups we work with.
