The Falling Leaves drift by the window. The autumn leaves of red and gold - lyrics, Frank Sinatra

Fall is one of the loveliest seasons.  It brings with it enough chill to change from the sleeveless, cottaging, carefree days of summer to that feeling of feathering the nest and a change in wardrobe with layers, colours and textures of warmth.  Nothing like tossing on a great scarf over a warm jacket with an Echoes, warm-toned, cross-body flatbag and you're good to go.  Get out there.  Go walking in the autumn leaves.  Hold hands with a loved one.  Stroll the markets and see nature's bounty.  Get to a fall fair or cranberry festival  Just don't worry about what your carrying, Echoes best selling Zipster & Zipster Jr. add just the right hit of colour and pattern and keep your hands free for more important things.

Happy Autumn everyone! 

Ah, Summer...

Seasons come and seasons go. Echoes loves the bright greens of spring in all it's newness turning into the fullness of summer. Autumn colours inspire and winter's grey only benefits by a splash of colour wherever you can. At Echoes we love each season for the backdrop of lovely eco-designs we reinvent from XS textiles.

There's an ease to summer's wardrobe and the fun is adding just the right bag to the simplest outfit to make it pop. Echoes soft pinks and apple or celadon greens will fade slowly to the autumn golds and browns...keep your eye out for the subtle changes and remember, nab the bag you love before it's gone, they're one of a kind.

Nab your new spring Echoes Eco-Handbag

April 15th - 23 - Book an appointment to Nab Your Echoes Spring Eco-Handbag! Just in time for Easter, Mother's Day you can come and shop our huge selection of spring bags before we ship out to our stores! At Echoes HQ/Laura's home office we're knee-deep in bags and we'd love you to be sporting new, fresh colours, patterns and styles in time for capri and open-toed-sandals-season.

Email for your private shopping appointment echoesintheattic@gmail.com

Our favorite colour in spring is GREEN!

Basics Office Products EARTH DAY contest

Stop in to any one of 35 Basics Office Products and fill out a ballot to win an Echoes in the Attic Ecobag to celebrate Earth Day. See for yourself what beautiful diverted landfill from forward-thinking companies can be re-imagined into when they choose to eco-donate instead of trashing it.

Basics Office Products is giving away 35, one of a kind, Zipster Flatbags. The most popular Echoes bag just slings across your body so you can go...with a clear environmental conscience that you're helping us save the planet one handbag at a time!

YOU be the DESIGNER

Echoes strives to honor your individual style by designing one of a kind, or one of a few, upcycled eco-handbags. Inherent in our eco-donations of small, but gorgeous fabric sizes is the necessity to keep our 'runs' very exclusive. That being said, Vicky and I have often wondered if those of you who carry one or many of Echoes bags would ever want to have a go at being your own designer.
This is your chance. 'YOU be the DESIGNER' is a one-time chance to choose from our stash of gorgeous fabrics, bring your own or mix the two and make your own statement in a current Echoes bag style.
For a limited time, January 17th - 31st we're inviting you into our studio, otherwise known as Vicky's house, to choose your own fabric combination. We'll have the bags professionally sewn and you'll be carrying your own design within 3 weeks! What are the chances that someone else is going to choose exactly as you do?
For an appt. call Vicky at 905-775-0529 and prepare to unleash your creativity on your own Echoes eco-bag.

Echoes Mother's Day FREE SHIPPING on webstore purchases

To celebrate Mother Earth and MOM Echoes is offering FREE shipping on all webstore purchases till May 8th/10. We love our mom's, we love being mom's and Mother Earth needs us all to vote through our purchases on her long and healthy existence.
Echoes Salvage-savvy handbags for planet-lovers are made from a mix of sturdy materials from post-manufacturing and gorgeous designer fabrics. In other words...diverted waste stream donations previously on their way to a bloated landfill near you. Echoes steps in, stops this process and reinvents these spectacular fabrics in a line of one of a kind, eco purses, totes, diaper & laptop bags.
Echoes in the Attic - Canadian, One of a kind, Eco-friendly, Upcycled Handbags.
www.echoesintheattic.com

Echoes in the Attic gets "Global" attention

Ok, how great is this...an international company, Global Upholstery who makes most of the office furniture we buy worldwide is off-loading their large remnants to our little cottage industry company. We're always looking for eco-conscious donors to join our current roster Robert Allen Fabrics, Ethan Allen Furniture & Taylor Robyn Originals who all believe in passing on great sample fabric and off-cuts to us to divert the landfill. Once again we've hit the jackpot when we got a call from the manager of Global's Toronto plant back in December '07. We met this January and are astounded by the amount of fabric we now have at our disposal to turn into our handbags & totes. Cool vinyls, industrial strength upholstery weights that lend themselves to durable, long lasting products. The blend of all these company's fabrics are beautiful and our retail prices are obscenely affordable because the savings are passed on to the customer. It's win/win/win down the line.... the environment, our eco-donors, our Canadian business and finally YOU! Enjoy our cool new offerings as they launch in our almost 50 stores across Canada 4 e-tailers and our own webstore this spring.

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!

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