Saving the Earth in Style
I am having the best time shopping on eBay's World of Good site. This is what I found on there today.
Recycled jewelry--earrings in the shape of coffee cups. My favorite drink.
You may laugh, but if you follow this recycled jewelry link, you will see that World of Good has loads of fun and funky recycled jewelry that is made with cast away metal, fabric, and other materials into some very cool stuff. A lot of it is under $20 so we can put it in our Eco-Chic Green Gifts Under $25 category.
I am totally in love with these Fox Earrings which are made from recycled cart parts by artist Emily Baker. Emily Baker is a self-taught artist and designer. Jewelry design, landscape design, music, and painting are a few of the mediums she works in. Currently, her line, Emily Baker Sustainable Jewelry, is a hit among eco-savvy men and ladies everywhere. She creates earrings and necklaces out of used car parts and the result is tough and pretty at the same time. Emily hunts for treasures in small dusty towns and near the railroad tracks to find cast-off pieces of old metal to create her jewelry.
The round rings used in the earrings and necklaces are old machine parts, along with antique brass vintage chain and gold-filled earring wires. For more information about this artist and her work, follow this link.
Do you have a person in your family that loves to sew or knit? If so, there is a great book just for them that shows you how to create new clothing and accessories out of old ones. This is a book written by two fellow Clevelanders, Shannon Okey and Alexandra Underhill. Both of the authors are extremely creative people as well as extremely interesting.
Alternation reflects their varied talents. To purchase Alternation, you can link directly to the page on Lake Erie Artists Gallery's website, and I will ship it right to you, or you can buy it directly from Amazon in the U.S.
Both Shannon and Alexandra are very into recycling and reusing old materials in new ways. Shannon is an expert knitter and crocheter. She has written several other books on both topics, the most well known is the knitgrrl
Alexandra Underhill (also known as Xan) is most well known as a costume designer, dancer, and stiltwalker. She also is a proponent of eating raw foods. If you see a woman on a pair of stilts, and her hair is blond with other colors mixed in, chances are that it is Xan. This is her first book.
