Turn packets into gorgeous handbags

Bag Making Masterclass (woven bags from plastic food packets)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.

purse made from woven lolly packetsEverywhere 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...]

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Megan Bayliss and The Junk Wave in Pak Mag

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Megan Bayliss of The Junk Wave talks Celebrity Garbage at Pat Mesiti’s Celebrity Evolution Experience in Sydney

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Recycling old love for an old house

When I was a kid and lived in Sydney I used to occasionally walk home past a house that I longed for Dad to buy. How I fantasised that I played in the garden and took the time off the sandstone sun-dial. The house was old albeit lovingly restored, haunted by a friendly woman ghost probably, and beckoned to me to live in it.

Love recycled: Fast forward 35 years and I still LOVE the house. I revisited her on a recent trip to Sydney and I have set her on my vision board. The ghost still beckons but the sundial is gone and the block subdivided with another house built in the ample grounds. [Read more...]

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Our model is simple: People, Planet and Profit. Mass action of individual home based effort through recycled craft makes a HUGE difference.