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I found a good example of a recycle site blueprint by accident and stopped to check it out. I see that evidently someone has been taking the “get green” messages to heart. The Ebay listings are mirrored on the website. This is a very good model for a green materials or re-use based crafts sales site.
The Re-Use concept is mirrored in the vintage marketing. This website operator has learned that many things that are thrown away are actually “beauty” in the eye of the beholder. Scrapbook covers and favorite book protectors can be one of a kind individualist statements made sustainable.
Crafts and fabric arts create items like journal or book covers from recycled items like placemats and larger garments which have been mined for intact textile fabric remnants. Book or journal covers, halloween goody bags, even remade costumes out of salvaged materials can save a bundle.
With the multiple applications of fabric arts in found fabric and sourced textiles for crafts from discards, Freecycle, and Ebay, there is no excuse not to be making hobby crafts for resale, donations, or gifts. Templates for journals covers and bound scrapbook type sewing projects can be found online or in local libraries.
Panels of these types of creations can be considered media art and can also be incorporated into one of a kind room decorations, quilts, and pillowcases or slipcovers for chairs. this can be fun for the whole family.
Begin by sorting re-use items like buttons, trims, and fabric remnants as they can be removed from donated charity thrift shop items or discards from the household. Collect like items in painted egg cartons which make excellent sorting bins. Look for sheer fabrics, rubbery stuff, plaids and other groups and put them together.
The Ebay member rating displays the excellent sales record of the seller in shipping items. There’s no limit to the benefit that Freecycle or Ebay can bring to the re-use cause. Everything from homemade organic paper to fabric arts can generate entire categories of crafts all from primarily re-used source materials.
The descriptor text reads:
Mousevox-an online exclusive, eco-friendly boutique featuring a hand picked selection of one-of-a-kind, fashion forward, authentic vintage apparel from the 1950′s, 60′s, 70′s & 80′s
This person evidently has set up shop as a vintage item Ebay reseller. this is an excellent way to begin a thread of distribution for small fabric goods from recycled sources that can garner additional and sustainable use from the original industrial manufactured items.
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