I am so grateful to have made a new contact at Bromham Show last week. Lance Haggith, from Sports Traider, came over to my stand and made several fabulous suggestions. The first of these has already started to become real; he brought over a pile of brand new jeans for me to use for the items I make. These are jeans confiscated by Trading Standards, as they are "designer ripoffs" and passed on to Lance; some have now been passed to me. This afternoon I began cutting them up. Here is the first set of pockets removed from the jeans, ready to be remade into pocket bags and then sold to benefit Utange.
Thank you so much, Lance!
This blog shows my recycled denim creations, along with tutorials for items I have designed myself. I collect old jeans (a strange collection, I know!) and cut them up to make bags, purses, animals and other items of varying sizes and shapes. I then sell these to raise money for weomen and children in the town of Utange, near Mombasa, in Kenya. I help women to set up their own businesses and am supporting the building of a new school for disabled children.
Sunday, 19 July 2015
Exciting times!
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