This is the time of year when ghouls and goblins and mummys are a common site. But these aren’t your everyday mummys ..they are made out of a recycled metal cabinet! They are about 10 inches tall….perfect for creeping out the little treaters! The creator is artist, Elli Groninger…I’ve never met her, but I like […]
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Recycled Plush Dolls and Monsters
I am totally hooked on finding artists who are making plush dolls or monsters out of recycled materials so I just LOVE Tracyville! Tracyville is Tracy Viverretta, a Portland OR artist who’s tagline is: nature conscious, recycled induced, handmade fortified. In addition to her wonderful 3d pieces, she is a beautiful illustrator embracing the recycled […]
Eco Friendly Hand Made Plush Dolls
Fiber artist, Sue Lappan, from upstate New York makes these playful creatures exclusively in eco-friendly materials. First, she only uses plant based fabrics and stuffing which means organic cotton, hemp and bamboo fleece sewn together with organic cotton thread and soy yarn and then filled with kapok fiber, buckwheat hulls and walnut shells. They are […]
Notebooks Made from Recycled Rubber Bike Inner Tubes
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. […]
When a tree falls in Brooklyn…..
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 […]
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