Thursday, December 6, 2007

LouLou Loves TLC


Yet another great Canadian magazine loves our gal Tracy, the eco-savvy designer of the TeeBag by TLC. The 'hot' TeeBag is the clever invention of Tracy Lee Crandall who turns the lowly discarded T-shirt into the highly sought after handbag that every LouLou reader is after.
Tracy's gorgeous, eco-conscious take is a statement...and the statement you can't help but make when you're wearing one is "check me out!"...the other statement you'll be making is a ready answer to "WHERE did you get that bag."
See the TeeBag by TLC on LouLou's Christmas Green Picks List (pg. 148) Available at select store across Canada listed at tlc.com & available on-line at echoesintheattic.com

Friday, November 16, 2007

TLC in Canadian Living Magazine


Check out this month's Canadian Living Magazine where our friend and awesome designer, Tracy Lee Crandall of TLC Bags (tlcbags.com) has her own spot (#21) on the Christmas Wish List.
Echoes in the Attic is so proud to carry her gorgeous, recycled, crocheted T-shirt bags called The TeeBag. This is recycling genius at it's best...clever girl! Since we started carrying Tracy's creations the demand has gone through the roof, and now to be recognized in a national magazine...kudos to you Tracy!
You can see Tracy's gorgeous TeeBags and Felted Wool bags at the One of a Kind Show '07

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Northern Exposure Artisan Open Studio Sale


This is our last show of '07 where you can buy our beautiful recycled wares direct from Echoes in the Attic. We've been invited to show at a house/studio tour called Northern Exposure in beautiful Aurora Ontario. We'll be surrounded by other talented artisans showing pottery, photography, jewelry and soaps in a lovely home setting replete with home-made treats and goodies.
Don't miss this once a year event where you can get a head start on your Christmas shopping!
Nov 10th 10am - 5pm &
Nov 11th 11am - 5pm
34 Tribbling, Aurora, ON
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&q=34+Tribbling+Rd,+Aurora,+ON&ll=44.010225,-79.481792&spn=0.028087,0.058365&z=14&iwloc=addr&om=1

Monday, October 29, 2007

Thanks for coming to the Canadian Home & Country Show


A very big thank you goes out to all friends new and old for coming out to the Canadian Home & Country Show to see our recycled wares for 2007 and say Hello to Vicky and me. We had the prettiest booth in the show (in our humble opinion). We shared with two talented sisters from Shabby Lane Interiors and From the Inside Out Photography. The impact was wonderful we think you'll agree it looked like we'd all been in a store together for years. Response was wonderful and it seems recycled is even hotter than ever. Watch for our next sale coming this weekend at No Men Allowed (we didn't name it, we're just participating) 63 Wingold Ave. 2nd floor. It's a Designer Showroom open to the public for Saturday 11 -5pm and Sunday 11 - 4pm only! We'll see you there!

Monday, October 22, 2007

One Green Thing


If only everyone would do just one thing to green up their act...
Here's one thing we propose. Come to the Home & Country Show Oct 25 - 28 at the CNE Automotive Bldg Toronto and check out Echoes in the Attic's greener choices.
Along with our best-sellers Purse-nickety, Hipster(Hipster Doofus for you Seinfeld die-hards), Purse-nickety Hipster (the hybrid) and ReBag we're launching a couple of new things...our huge recycled Tote Bags are finally here, and Christmas gift packages which include our sell-out ReBag made of 100% 'rescued remnants' with 2 organic, fair trade body bars from Simply. Simply has been enjoying such popularity that it makes it difficult for Amanda to get around to make her 'no-emissions-footprint' bike deliveries. Simply has the same ethos as Echoes in the Attic so we got together. What better container for body bars to come in than a recycled purse. Brilliant!
So, do your planet a service, support Canadian, home-grown business doing their best to do just one thing to help you green up your act.
See you at the show.
Laura & Vicky

Friday, October 19, 2007

What a Week


Wow, what a week. We've been busier than squirrels getting our stock ready for the upcoming Home & Country Show at the CNE's Automotive Bldg next week. It's starts Oct 25 through 28th and our booth is a group effort of beautiful not so shabby, shabby-chic style furniture, photography, jewelry, pillows and handbags of all styles, shapes and designs and all from the 'discard pile of life'. This week we shipped our recycled wares to two new stores in Nelson B.C. and a Webstore in Manitoba, managed to re-stock some current stores and still have loads of fabulous product for the show. Last year we had so many visitors to our little 10' x 10' booth but this year we're going twice as big with all our eco-fab goodies. We do hope you'll come out and see just how much we can pack into our booth to tempt you...Christmas is just around the corner and there's no better time than the present to think about our future...Buy Recycled, Hand-made, Canadian! See you at the Show.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Echoes in the Attic & Shabby Lane Interiors T.V. debut


Lisa Finch of Shabby Lane Interiors and I spent our day doing something pretty fun...we were guests on a Rogers cable show today called Daytime. We were there to talk about our "co-production" of a packed & stacked little 10' x 10' jewel box of a booth at this years Home & Country Show we're doing. It all takes place at the Automotive Building at the CNE Oct. 25 - 28.
Lisa and her sister Kelly are displaying painted furniture and amazing artwork of photography touched by technology and a little sparkle...all in a not-so-shabby, Shabby Lane way.
Vicky and I will be there too with all our best selling recycled purse styles, pillows and a couple of new exciting things like gift packs of ReBags with organic soap by none other than Simply. These are the best body bars...great hostess or Christmas gifts. We've got reclaimed/recycled leathers, silks with raffia you just have to see to believe. We'll have Auntie Em's Jewelry using buttons and beads in unique necklaces and new interchangeable belt buckles.
If you love eco-chic this is the place to find it.
Can't wait to see everyone!

Shhhhh...we've got a secret!


Soon enough you'll see it in black & white what everyone's asking for this Christmas!
TLC's "TeeBag"
is coming to three Canadian Christmas Wish Lists.
Only available in select boutiques or through Echoes' webstore.

Monday, October 8, 2007

The TeeBag by TLC is in demand


TLC's TeeBag takes the lowly T-shirt to new heights. The one who puts all her TLC into her line of recycled T-shirt bags is Tracy Lee Crandall. After a long while fending off offers from perfect strangers to buy the bag right off her shoulder Tracy thought she might be on to something! She started out slowly but since the calendar flipped to '07 it's been all hands on deck making her beautiful, one of a kind art-pieces we fashionistas are looking for to be the one with the most unusual, jaw-dropping accessories....and you're doing your part for the environment as these eco-chic babies are recycled to boot! When Tracy, Vicky and I started discussing our joint efforts selling on our websites and launching in a few of our more exclusive boutiques we had no idea how crazy things were going to get. We're currently battening down the hatches and stockpiling like mad as the TeeBag is set to launch on not one, but two National magazine Christmas Wish Lists. Until we met Tracy, we thought old T-shirts were only good for cleaning windows...WE WERE WRONG!

Monday, September 24, 2007

The Process


We often get asked about how we make our bags so we thought we'd share a little of our process.
Echoes in the Attic bags & pillows are designed in 'lots' of a particular style and a head first dive into the pool or 'stash' of fab fabrics. Many things contribute to the design session...mood, time of year, is the sun shining, did I pull something in yoga! I'm a fortunate fashionista with a life long addiction to other people's cast-offs. I just see something different to do with something found. Whether it's from a day spent scouring second hand stores and scoring the overlooked or heaping my car with the generosity of our eco-conscious donors. The fabrics are yummy, often very small but fab. I have to admit though I'm no sewer. My partner Vicky and my former sewing teacher (my non existent skill has no bearing on her talent) usually asks me to 'step away from the cutting tools'. She sews, she teaches, she's even found a way for us to get more sewn than what she could do alone to keep up with the orders. Our purses & pillows are hand sewn in the sweat-shop free workshop of our 'right arm' production guru and her team of stay-at-home-moms.
For me, the finished product arriving is just the beginning of photo's, numbering, cataloguing, selling and supplying to our now over 35 stores across Canada, our e-tailers and our own webstore.
It's a crazy pile of work but it's our passion! Who was it who said...oh ya, my son at 9 years, "One lady's trash is another lady's purse."

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Workshops at Artisitc Revival's ArtSpace 2


Just three of our new friends enjoying the end results of their new found talent. These gals had some experience sewing so it made the time spent choosing just the right antique button unhurried. The ladies were allowed to choose from the fab fabrics from recycled designer remnants. Vicky led them through the steps to creating their very own ReBag...one of our most popular sellers.
Artistic Revival's intimate ArtSpace 2 Gallery made for a cozy setting and keeping our numbers capped made it easy for personal attention from Vicky.
A little time at the end for tea & treats and a wonderful time was had by all.
For info. on the next workshops please contact Clare at Artistic Revival 206 Main St in Newmarket. 905-953-0901
Upcoming workshops - Echoes in the Attic "Past-Times feather pillows" featured in Oct 2006 Canadian Home & Country magazine & July 2007 Style at Home magazine and our new "Big Old Bag" Tote.
See you in the ArtSpace!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

The colour of Fall is always GREEN


At Echoes in the Attic the colour of Fall is always GREEN. Our gorgeous, Canadian-made, recycled purses, bags, pillows and jewelry made from the 'discard pile of life' will once again be at the Home & Country Show- Oct 25 - 28/07 at the CNE Automotive building.
We've teamed with the not-so-shabby, Shabby Lane Interiors and will be setting up a little jewel box of a store for these four days. A mixture of re-vamped chandeliers, furniture, pushing my buttons jewelry incl. the new line of belts with highly sought after interchangeable buckles made with pre-loved buttons and beads, our best sellers; the Hipster, Purse-nickety & Purse-nickety Hipster, plus our constant sell-out The ReBag and our new Tote Bags made with vintage, designer remnants and retro fabrics, both topped with antique buttons. If one of a kind, or a few of a kind are what you're after please join us at the Home & Country Show this year.
Oh did we mention pillows...feather, gorgeous chenilles mixed with lush Robert Allen and Ethan Allen sample remnants.
See you there!
Laura & Vicky
www.echoesintheattic.com
echoesintheattic.@gmail.com