We make junk precious. We help women start a cottage industry by turning plastic food packet waste into gorgeous fashion hand bags.
What you need to make this recycled paper craft butterfly:
Level of recycled craftiness:
What you do: [Read more...]
Print this post without sidebars
Climate Change is Real.
Thanks to extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, it’s getting harder to turn a blind eye to the reality of climate change. Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage of fossil fuels for energy production, the weather has been warming slowly. In fact, since 1880, the temperature of the earth has increased by 1 degree Celsius.
Although 72% of media outlets report on global warming with a skeptical air, the overwhelming majority of scientists believe that the extreme weather of the last decade is at least partially caused by global warming. Some examples of climate calamities caused partly by global warming include:
These storms, droughts, and floods are causing death and economic issues for people all over the world – many of whom cannot afford to rebuild their lives from the ground up after being wiped out by a tsunami or other disaster. [Read more...]
Print this post without sidebars
The Junk Wave makes gorgeous hand bags woven from recycled plastic food packets
The Junk Wave crafts and sells one of a kind handbags made from recycled food packaging. Our material comes from street and beach clean-ups and from friends and family who give to us. Every piece of plastic used in the bags is saved from entering landfill or ocean. Each bag represents a huge environmental saving.
A self-funded community project of empowerment and up-skilling, Megan Bayliss of The Junk Wave works with groups of women, many Indigenous and many with barriers to full participation in community life, to produce beautiful designer bags that sell the world over.
The Junk Wave is a business with a sustainable 3P (People, Planet and Profit) business model. [Read more...]
Print this post without sidebars
Make bowls out of waste paper. That’s right, recycled paper craft bowls.
At a recycled craft workshop in Cairns on Saturday, February the 16th, Megan Bayliss of The Junk Wave will show and train you in three different types of bowls:
Print this post without sidebars
Learn to make beautiful beads that look like coral or stone……..but that are actually made from recycled paper, cards or cereal boxes.
Learn how to make recycled paper beads in just a two-hour workshop in Cairns.
Walk away with your own beads to string and wear.
Recycled craft materials all supplied. You just bring your fashion eye for the in colours that match your wardrobe and I’ll teach you how to make beads that are strong and ecologically friendly.
Print this post without sidebars
The Junk Wave crafts and sells, online, one of a kind handbags made from recycled food packaging: chip, lolly, ice-cream, chocolate, pasta, rice, etc. Our material comes from street and beach clean-ups and from friends and family who collect for us. Every piece of plastic used in the bags is saved from entering landfill or ocean. Each bag represents a huge environmental saving and is a metaphor of ethics and social justice for everyone and everything under the sky.
A self-funded community project of empowerment and up-skilling, Megan Bayliss of The Junk Wave works with groups of women, many Indigenous and many with barriers to full participation in community life, to produce beautiful designer bags that sell the world over.
The Junk Wave is a business with a sustainable 3P (People, Planet and Profit) business model. We are fair and we believe in helping others. To this end, the money from bag sales divides between the women artisans and the organisations that host bag making workshops. But most importantly, part of the sale of the bag supports other community programs that look after people in their own communities and the social and physical environment of those people.
Our bags are story bags: they contain stories of sharing and healing and come with the love of the women who developed new life and social skills while making them. Woven while the women talk among themselves, each bag carries the stories of the weavers: sad, happy, curious, frustrated, empowered, scary, bold, cultural and interesting.
Your bag comes with a card made from recycled materials, signed and briefly storied by the artisans. Your bag also comes with our collective wish for you to make the world a better place. But wait…there’s more…just as this program value adds to the women artisans who weave the bags we value add to our bags. Your bag will come with special little value added gift made by the weavers: a little something to help you be even more different and special than you already are.
Buy a purse for a curse: help build pathways out of poverty for Australian women. Get yourself a good feeling from helping a grass-roots and self-funded community project, a drop dead gorgeous fashion bag AND a surprise gift to wear and show off.
Buy our bags here and help an Australian woman develop her own cottage industry, her pathway out of poverty, through recycled craft skills today.
Print this post without sidebars
The Junk Wave makes junk precious.
Through intentional teaching and teachable moments, we spread our recycling passion to protect oceans and landfill from toxic household waste so that tomorrow’s children can experience a healthy and safe, animal rich, environment. [Read more...]
Print this post without sidebars
It is Cairns turn to hold a master class for turning household plastic waste (like chip and biscuit packets) into gorgeous fashion hand bags.
So simple once you know the techniques, save hundreds of dollars. Craft your own designer handbag: one of a kind and very trendy.
Everywhere I go, I am stopped by random people and asked,”Where did you get that beautiful hand bag from?”
If you are like me, you will relish in the delight of replying, “I made it myself.” [Read more...]
Print this post without sidebars
Recycled craft is IN. Green is the new black this Christmas. Recycled is the new, new.
The Junk Wave, in partnership with the divine Miss Erica from Recycled fashion and Recycled Market in Melbourne, and Replas Environmental Centre, offers you an AMAZING opportunity to get three recycled craft tutorials for the price of one! Yep, three for one! [Read more...]
Print this post without sidebars
Evening bag from coffee bean foils $150.00
Cousin sister shoulder bag $80.00
Evening bag from coffee bean foils $150.00 Cousin sister shoulder bag $80.00
