Upcycling greatness
let me introduce you to one of the stall holders at the Melbourne Craft Cartel Market. Dan is the man and he has a label called Nearly Roadkill.
Nearly Roadkill is a bag and accessory label established in 2006 by Dan Vaughan. The bags are made out of recycled car uphoistery, just saved from their fate as roadkill.
Dan makes wallets and messenger bags, back packs and hand bags and they’re all handmade.
And they’re really hot!
(so is Dan incidentally, I always get a couple of people come up to me and ask me what his marital status is. I don’t know, for the record. And I hope he doesn’t mind me saying this. Hopefully he’ll be flattered that lots of people think he’s hot.)
I can’t show you any pictures, you have to go look at his site. Or come and see them in person at the next Market (March 3, diaries)
And while we’re on the theme of ace upcycled bags, check these babies out
The brain child of Motor City Handbags, they’re made out of that orange stuff they use on construction sites. Super cute and very, very strong. I could definitely see one of these in action at the Footscray Market.
They also make seatbelt bags, like this diaper bag (or nappy bag as us who don’t live in the US tend to refer to them as).
I love people who think of the parents!
For those of you who don’t know, upcycling is a term which means to take an objects (usually waste, or unwanted) and reconstruct it into something of value. And it’s a super, brilliant, crafty way of saving the planet.
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Wow, imagine how strong that seatbelt bag would be – it would last forever!
One would hope so…
Dan IS hot, isn’t he? Sadly, word on the street is that he’s spoken for. Happily we can all buy a little piece of Dan in the form of a wallet & stick it in our jeans pocket & it will be kind of like he’s touching our bums. Maybe not very much like this but it’s as close as we’re going to get & the wallets are hot in their own right so we may as well.