Hey check out Vicky & me sittin' pretty...well sittin', at the head offices of The Global Group. We visited our newest eco-donor and checked out their chair. Later we headed over to the plant where they make all kinds of cool office furniture and save us their 'ends' or 'rescued remnants'. A few hundred pounds of fabric later the back of the car was full and we really are sittin' pretty now with scads of great recycled fabrics and remnants to make lots of pretty handbags with. Thank you Global...see you next week!
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.
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
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
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!
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
