I love blank notebooks and these are the best! Made from recycled bike inner tubes they come in all sorts of bright colors and some have appliques and embroidery. From Copenhagen artist, Larsen who sells her wares at her shop called: PalePink. She blogs (where she shows some of her other work) over at www.palepinksblog.blogspot.com. Recycled bicycle tubes seems to be a great “fabric” to work with. Larsen also creates recycled bicycle tire jewelry, but I think I’ll save that for a future post featuring several artists working with the material. If you want to read more about this artist, here is a link to an interview on Etsy.
For now, get a notebook, they are so thick and yummy!
$35.00 at Palepink’s Etsy Shop

After a freaky tornado swished through NYC last week, Brooklyn-based design company, WrecordsByMonkey surveyed the damage and got a great idea. Repurposing the fallen camouflage sycamore trees into a limited run of eco-friendly pins. Grad your piece of history!
$10.00 for the set at WrecordsByMonkey

While you are on their site, check out their jewelry made from recycled records.

Tine de Ruysser is a jewelry designer who is all about folding! She even invented a folding material during her studies at the Royal College of Art. Her website is dedicated to her folded work. I was especially taken by her “Banknote Jewellery“.

Detail of 6 necklaces from 6 continents (China, USA, Australia, Europe, South Africa, Argentina,)

Created from Ngultrums which is the currency of Bhutan since 1974.

From artist, Lauren Vanessa Tickle who calls this line of her work (working with currency) “Value Exploration”. Other projects which she gives glimpses of on her blog are called “Inconsolable” and “Weathered”. She is a recent graduate of RISD in the Jewelry and Metalsmithing program.