Diet Coke Necklace

I've noticed it popping up on several blogs lately! It's The heart Diet Coke necklace made by one of our artists!

I am thrilled for her! Orders have come in from Sweden and Australia just this past weekend!

Whether you are blogging about how you love Diet Coke, Coke Memorabilia or Recycled Products, Jennifer and www.repurposed4you.com love that you have added her necklace!

For more of Jennifer's line of recycled aluminum jewelry visit her page at http://repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_27

Repurposed4you.com Big Sping Sale

www.Repurposed4you.com, the eco friendly online retailer specializing in hand made items made from recycled reclaimed and repurposed materials, is having a big Spring Sale!

Repurposed4you.com is doing some spring cleaning. Many of our favorite products are on sale this month to make room for the new Earth Day line.

Check out the popular children's book purses. "Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You", "The Velveteen Rabbit" and "Green Eggs and Ham" are in stock and on sale !
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Kitchen accessories, like napkins rings and glass bowls are one of a kind eco friendly items that are on sale.http://repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=34_36


Home furnishing items such as decorative pillows and select furniture are marked down.
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Hurry! These items are one of a kind and when they are gone, they are GONE!

Repurposed4you.com March Newsletter and Coupon

March Newsletter - New Artists, New Products and Coupon for you!

Once again, this month we have made great changes in our website. We would like to introduce these new artists and their products to you...

New in February...

Laura has added a new line of the Bottled Up Designs! Beautiful new colors and styles of depression and reclaimed glass shaped into pedants and earrings! A must see, the designs of the etched depression glass shine through and are simply stunning!http://www.repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_21

Dolly and her line of hand painted reclaimed glass. These pieces have a variety of uses and have each been hand painted and given new life as beautiful works of art.All of Dolly's glass line can be found under "Glass ware" in the "Home Goods" Catagoryhttp://www.repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=34_35

Gene and Karessa and their line of recycled notebooks. These notebooks are made from common items, from board games to shoe boxes but have now been turned into pop icon upcycled notebooks in a variety of sizes with 30% post consumer paper inside. A must see!Gene and Karessa's line of notebooks can be found under "Desktop" under the "Home Goods" Catagoryhttp://www.repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=34_38

Paula and her internationally acclaimed line of eco friendly textiles and jewelry. Paula's pieces are all handmade and one of a kind. She is known the world over for her green art and we are happy to have her as part of the repurposed4you.com family!Paula's lines can be found in both "Paula's Designs" catagory under "Fashion Accessories" and the "Art" catagory under "Home Goods"http://www.repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_48

Jean Pool ... An evolution in denim! Our new line of denim dungarees with a green attitude. These jeans have been reclaimed and refashioned into one of a kind works of hand stitched and beaded art! Each one is as unique as you are! Jean Pool is an exclusive Repurposed4you.com line!Jean Pool can be found in "Eco Friendly Fashion" catagoryhttp://www.repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=28

We have also veared away from our handmade items to introduce a a new catagory to our site...

Natural/Organics

We have proudly opened up this catagory in order to feature ...

Tea Largo's line of organic loose leaf teas! In many different varieties and flavors. Each tea has instructions listed, health benefits and comes with it's own storage container.www.repurposed4you.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=31_32

This catagory will showcase some of our favorite handmade, natural and organic product lines. Every new item must meet our standards and come from a company that we believe is trying to do some good. We are proud to have these items listed on our site and hope you will also enjoy them! More to come!

Have you checked out the new web site call www.Myboneyard.com They offer a method to recycle many electronic devises and the consumer may receive money to recycle. PCs, Laptops, Monitors and PDAs!

Wondering if the switching light bulbs hype is really worth it?Check out this comprehensive comparision sheet showing the difference between CFL and LED bulbsThe comparision sheet can be found at:http://www.keysglee.com/images/pdf/LightBulbComparison.pdf

Have you tried Free Cycle? An amazing opprotunity to share products that you might not want, to get products that others might have already loved. Check it out!http://www.freecycle.org

Do you know of any Earth Day events coming up in your area? Next month we will be listing all local and National Earth Day events that we know of, so drop us a line so we can spread the word about your local event!

Thank you for being a newsletter subscriber!We would like you to enjoy some of the hundreds of new products we have listed on www.repurposed4you.com!

Enjoy 15% off your order (no minimum) : redemption code NEWTEA Expires 4/30/08

Have a great March!

The www.Repurposed4you.com Team

Repurposed4you.com's Artist of the Month

Our Artist of the month is Ann Harmon!

Ann just joined www.Repurposed4you.com in November. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and has two college-aged daughters. Ann has spent much of her career as a graphic designer and art director, but has spent the last 5 years as a special education teacher.

Ann' s specialty is her beautiful silver beaded bracelets. You never would have guessed what these beautiful bracelets started out as... Soda Top Tops! Ann's line of bracelets on www.repurposed4you.com is under "Fashion Accessories".

Check out her line of five different types of bracelets named for the woodland hues that have inspired the designs, Sweet Birch, Juniper, Chestnut, Cypress and Redwood.

Her favorite quote is by Marc Chagall. "Great art picks up where nature ends."

We are glad to have her on board!

How the Depression Taught Grandma to be Green

This past fall, an anniversary has come and gone that I have heard little fanfare about. Black Thursday. Not the famed best shopping day of the year, where retailers open at 4 am and sale catalogs weigh 5 pounds a piece. But the infamous anniversary of that fateful day that took us into the Great Depression.
I am not a political analyst touting the cautions and comparisons to our times and those that lead up to that dark day. I really pay no mind to the issues that flood the internet linking the Depression to present day concerns. However, there is one thing that caught my attention as I sat down to write my “Green Christmas Tips “article for the www.repurposed4you.com newsletter. I couldn’t get this thought out of my head. Did Grandma start going green in the 1930’s and no one noticed?
The Great Depression was a terrible time in our history, full of homelessness, joblessness and poverty. To my amazing discovery, it was also a time of being frugal, being thrifty and going green. The environment wasn’t the issue. Al Gore wasn’t standing on his 100% post-consumer recycled soap box warning of doom and gloom. It wasn’t an option to reuse items. There weren’t green stores, green art and green articles teaching us how to be more green. There wasn’t this type of save the earth mentality that made people change their ways. But instead the Great Depression was a time of conservation based out of necessity.
"Repair, reuse, make do, and don't throw anything away" was a motto during the Great Depression. Look how far we have come. Look how gone to the other extreme. Is it only the” tree huggers” and the “environmentalists” that see the usefulness in that phrase today. That slogan could easily be on any Eco Friendly Website and no one would know that it was regularly tossed around in homes 70 plus years ago.
Their green behavior is clear; their environmentally sound practices are shown through their resourcefulness. These lessons that they taught their kids have since gotten lost in an age of waste. Grandma became the nutty one for reusing cloth ribbon on her packages and neatly folding her gift wrap and saving it for the following holiday. And we became so superior for showing her how we can mindlessly discard anything that isn’t shiny and new any longer. Remember, Grandma was the one who wore dresses and sometimes even undergarments made out of feed bags and flour sacks because her mom wouldn’t toss out the colorful cotton. Our grandparents were taught that once socks could not be patched any longer they could be tied to the end of a long handle to become a mop. Glass jelly jars became everyday drinking glasses, geese would have their bellies plucked for the family to have a softer bed and oh, those beautiful handmade quilts and rugs made from worn out clothing. Everything outdoors became the kid’s entertainment. The garden was their grocery store. There was no thought to how much pesticide was on the produce or how much fuel it took to ship it across the country to your local neighborhood market. The electricity was limited to illumining the house at night, if that, and not for mindless hours of television, video games and lighting rooms we aren’t even in. They composted. They recycled. They did the things everyday that we pat ourselves on the back for; Repurposing, Reusing and Recycling. They were the first environmentalists, without even knowing it.
Every “Going Green” Holiday article you will read this season will tell you to start folding your paper to save it for next year like it is a new concept. Remember, Grandma still does this now. This is not a new concept. Grandma may have had this one right. And you never know she might just be right about her bee hive making a come back too.

Wonky

"You Spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round, round round" was the song that all the records gathered around the jukebox in the Turnsville Soda Shop to listen to.But it was not always that happy, oh no a long long time ago it was far worse.

One day a little record, let's call him Wonky, learned how to turn on a turn table and play music at the same time. What a multi-tasker! Anywhoo,Wonky wanted to do something special for his girlfriend because it was their fourth anniversary together. So he went to Google and typed in green gifts. After all he remembers her saying she loved the color green. Well he found Repurposed4you.com (repurposed treasures for you and your home) for you that had qwerty keys on it and he bought it for the low low price of eight ninety-five. He wanted to do more for her since she was quote "extra special" so he found a pop-up about the beautiful, extravagant, (and any other positive adjetives you could think of) Island of the Spinners. So he bought the package including air fare.

Once they arrived, they went to check into the hotel and then they took a romantic stroll around the beach, but to Wonky and Wonkette's (Wonky's girlfriend) surprise it was 105 degrees outside. And all the records that were sunbathing . . . . . melted.

Wonky and Wonkette rolled quickly back to the hotel and floored it right to their room. Wonky unhesitantly picked up the phone and called Audrey from repurposed4you.com. She said that she would be right over. She said that there was no hope for the melted records except (here is where the story turns around) she could make them into bowls.

So we named the bowls after the brave record that acted to save the environment. And they lived happily ever after. And by the way Wonkette loved her qwerty keys.



This is a narrative story because records can not type or dial numbers on a phone.