ReNuNu

Levis goes green

paisleygo — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:16:37 +0000

The Levi’s® brand has been providing a line of jeans made with 100% organic cotton since fall of 2006. Organic cotton is used in select popular men’s and women’s styles within its Red Tab and, the recently launched, Levi’s® Capital E™ lines. The jeans will be identified as “Levi’s® Eco” and be available in November 2006 exclusively at Levi’s® U.S. stores with additional products to be introduced in spring 2007.

E for Eco – very clever. Go Levis! Even their unorganic cotton is 100% biodegradeable, and man o man anything upcycled from a pair of Levis is gonna be cool.

Spring Has Sprung

paisleygo — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:47:13 +0000

Worm Bins and orach!

I ran into Jake at “Eat Your Yard” this weekend at the Ballard Farmers Market and saw his awesome worm bin made entriely out of reclaimed stuff – GO JAKE!

Here is a cool book I found about garden creations
Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition by Sue Whitney

Haute Trash Fashion Show 2010

paisleygo — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:16:00 +0000

See pix of the Haute Trash Fashion show. My pieces are the wave inspired brides gown and white pinstriped tux
They are both made from a sail

go to this site to see pics from the show
http://cornicello.zenfolio.com/restore2010

You can find my pics on
page 2 (34-38)
page 7 (135 - 138)

2 parts to recycling

paisleygo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:34:37 +0000

When I throw things in my recycle bin I am so proud of myself, and I am even prouder when I find good ways to repurpose (like washing out ziploc bags and reusing them). I realized the other day though, that in order to close that circel and really bring it home, I need to buy recycled things as well. Now that I have made that connection, I am going to make the effort (and spend the extra dough) to buy stuff MADE of recycled products (like paper and plastic items). I hope tht power of the buck will speak to manufacturers to use recycled raw materials . I know I prefer it (repuposed seems best don’t you think?)

Back at it

paisleygo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:40:24 +0000

The Haute Trash Fashion Show on Saturday was inspiring and fun. I presented my Wedding Gown and White Pinstriped Tux made out of a sail. My models were a smash hit with their fiddling, and the whole evening was a whirlwind of fun

Thanks to Travis and Racoon for their excellent presentation of my work!

Mother Earth by Henry Van Dyke

paisleygo — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:17:48 +0000

Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed,
Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field,
Mother of all the manifold forms of life, deep-bosomed, patient, impassive,
Silent brooder and nurse of lyrical joys and sorrows!
Out of thee, yea, surely out of the fertile depth below thy breast,
Issued in some strange way, thou lying motionless, voiceless,
All these songs of nature, rhythmical, passionate, yearning,
Coming in music from earth, but not unto earth returning.

Dust are the blood-red hearts that beat in time to these measures,
Thou hast taken them back to thyself, secretly, irresistibly
Drawing the crimson currents of life down, down, down
Deep into thy bosom again, as a river is lost in the sand.
But the souls of the singers have entered into the songs that revealed them, –
Passionate songs, immortal songs of joy and grief and love and longing:
Floating from heart to heart of thy children, they echo above thee:
Do they not utter thy heart, the voices of those that love thee?

Long hadst thou lain like a queen transformed by some old enchantment
Into an alien shape, mysterious, beautiful, speechless,
Knowing not who thou wert, till the touch of thy Lord and Lover
Working within thee awakened the man-child to breathe thy secret.
All of thy flowers and birds and forests and flowing waters
Are but enchanted forms to embody the life of the spirit;
Thou thyself, earth-mother, in mountain and meadow and ocean,
Holdest the poem of God, eternal thought and emotion.

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/henry_van_dyke/poems/2616

I always knew chickens were cool!

paisleygo — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:16:31 +0000

Did you know that chicken feathers have been researched as a source of plastic-like material? Chemical engineer Richard Wool and his graduate students mixed chicken feather down with soybean resin. They made circuit boards out of the resulting plastic. Their tests revealed a variety of chicken/soy plastic properties that outperformed regular plastic!

Biking to work as therapy

paisleygo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:58:32 +0000

Depending on where you live – and how far it is to your job – biking to work can be the ideal solution for bustin the winter blues. I have to go up this really daunting hill to get from Ballard to Capitol Hill – but everytime I do it I get to work so energized that I get about 3 times as much work done befor noon than I normaly would. So why don’t I do it everyday?

Well here are some of the common ones I come up with
“It’s Raaaaaining” (wahhhhhh)
“I don’t wanna – please don’t make me”
“I’m running late”
“I don’t have a THING to wear!”
“It’s dark when I leave and Dark when I come home”

anybody have solutions for some of those common excuses?

What is Sustainable Fashion anyway?

paisleygo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:51:54 +0000

To me sustainable means – thinking about the impact of my actions in every walk of my life. If I rip a piece of paper towel off the roll I think about where that paper came from and where it will go after I use it for 2 seconds to wipe up a spill. When I buy groceries I pick items that were produced locally and that are in a package that I can either reuse or recycle. I have spent many hours in thrift stores and fabric stores and I am always wondering what sort of impact the things I find there had on the environment to produce. I hope that spending my dollars on items that were produced responsibly is having an impact on those practices. When I am in a thrift store my mind races and sees the limitless possibilities for reusing those items either as is or by refashioning them.

Who is your favorite eco friendly fashion designer?

paisleygo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:55:33 +0000

In doing some research today I came across a SLEW of designers doing rewear- and thought I’d list them here – Please take a minute to leave a comment… I have 2 listed so far – I’ll post more as I come accross them.

Sarah Ratty- Concious Earthware-UK : (How Sarah Ratty has inspired people to embrace eco-fashion… Read More)

Kate Goldwater -AuH2O (NYC)