Caravan Love

Lovely grungy Woods Ivory Ware Platter with Caravan portrait. Nice!

Zippy

This is a lovely piece of recycled zip jewellery I found on ETSY.

Sock Monkeys from Miss Millie

During the Depression, store bought toys were desirable but unattainable extravagances. Thrifty mothers, accustomed to using materials over & over, refashioned worn socks into various toy creatures for their children to play with. The sock monkey was born! See Miss Millie's range HERE

Luxford Street, Bags It!

Brilliant new bags by Luxford St just listed!

On The Wall

These are Fab...plate clocks from Sisterhood.

New Skulls From Birdsong

New skull cuts from Birdsong. Went down really well at Kraftbomb, and some now listed on toggle.co.nz.

Little Birdie Clothes for Girls

Beautiful new children's clothes from Little Birdie just listed. Check out this fantastic up-cycled blanket jacket with reclaimed embroidery pockets. Love it!

Paper Doily Art

We have always liked the idea of drawing on Doilies, so here you go!

From Etsy by Fieldguided

Salvage bags are made from reused bill board skins.

Salvage make sturdy, roomy shopping bags from chopped up bill board skins, with handles made from recycled carpet fibre. The only 'new' material in these bags is the cotton used to sew them up. They are really great, and of course every one is totally individual. Use them at the supermarket!

Only $28.50 from toggle.co.nz

More recycling on toggle.co.nz!

When we thought more about it we realised there were many more artists on toggle.co.nz who use recycling (or as some say, 'upcycling'....hhhmmmmm).

Let's see...Crafthouse makes bracelets out of old movie film found on a street in NYC. The movie is about about Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician and humanitarian.




Cheek Pinchy makes her beautiful collaged cards and wall blocks from all sorts of old imagery.



Su McPherson makes jewellery out of beer bottle tops and bread bag tags


Bags Knot are fantastic bags made from knotted plastic bags on a kete base.


Stuck On You Magnets are made from baby food jar lids!

Among the cool stuff that Luxford St makes are bracelets made from plastic cars:


And Rachelle Pedersen is making gorgeous tiny artworks on found fabric badges.

toggle.co.nz artists who recycle...

Several of our artists use recycled materials and we thought they deserved a special mention:

Trixie Delicious with her fantastic funny plates, Bryce Bowen Glass who makes large bowls out of patterned old found glass sheets, Rekindle with teacup bangles and teacup handle pendants, and Crown Lynn Toki pendants.