Tag: Recycling
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Healing and Creating. Vintage Wrist Cuffs.
Yoka Having torn my leg muscle lately,I’ve been forced to slow down and rest up for 6 weeks so it will heal. Today, I’m sitting on the couch with a warm fire creating fabric wrist cuffs. My lounge room is a gorgeous mess of vintage scraps and odds and ends in boxes, bags and tins.…
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Reasons to Upcycle in your Creative Business
I really enjoy finding a new purpose for something that would otherwise have gone into the trash and saving it from landfill. In all my shops I mostly, reuse, recycle and upcycle materials where I can. Atelierinparis Outlook8studio Nostalgi Upcycle: “to process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something…
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Nostalgi Shop – Vintage Pre- loved. Good ol’e Days
If you are into vintage Art Deco music sheets with gorgeous pictures, old books, vintage cordial labels, handmade doilies reclaimed and dyed in bright colours and more… Pop over to my Nostalgi and go to each section in the left menu. I also have over 100 other vintage items to browse at Nostalgi Vintage Cup…
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Assemblage Necklace. Handmade Jewellery.
SOLD INSPIRATION I named this piece after a little cathedral I ventured into on “Rue Genivieve” in Asnieres France also, my French name is Genivieve.This gorgeous assemblage necklace is one of a kind. I created it from an antique broken rosary. In the middle of the mother of pearl beads, lay a silver cross with…
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Crazy Rust Dyeing
Lately I’ve been experimenting with natural dyeing processes for fabrics and papers. I’m trying out rust dyeing at the moment. I want to build up a collection of natural and rust dyed fabrics and papers so when my next creative spurt comes around, I’ll have plenty to work with. Over the years I have collected…