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- Apr 17, 1:49pm
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- Apr 17, 7:38am
- giftable green goodies
If you're looking to be a little more green with your gift giving, consider some of these goodies...
These one-of-a-kind wine glasses are actually created from recycled wine bottles. Using a patented technique, they convert the top of the bottle into a unique wine glass base... pretty clever!
Handmade in Wisconsin - $16.50
Practical, positive, and easy to use, 1,001 ways to save the Earth will inspire you to take eco-friendly action into your own hands. $9.95
So... how do you make money by using garbage, a sewing machine and some thread?
Just ask 15 year-old Shaina from Leonard, Michigan. She creates these stylish juice box bags by recycling them from schools and day care centers.
Bags are available at our Berkley & Rochester locations. Prices vary.
Resource Revival in Oregon collects tons of discarded bicycle parts every year from bike shops all over the United States. They clean them using mild detergents, sort them into more categories than you can possibly imagine, and craft them into the cool products like bottle openers and business card holders. $10.50
All of a.i. paper design's ribbon frames are created with a recycled masonite base and covered with recycled paper. They are also made and sold in Metro Detroit... making them carbon footprint friendly. $33.00
Keep your coffee warm, stylish and waste one less cardboard sleeve. Available at our Rochester & Berkley locations. $9.50
- Apr 17, 7:37am
- my artfest adventure in a nut shell
 Michelle and I arrived in beautiful Port Townsend late afternoon and took in some sights before our art adventure began.
Artfest took place in Fort Worden State Park. We were lucky enough to stay right on the grounds with other art-festers in 'dorm-like' rooms.
Being new to Artfest, I didn't come prepared with trades. I quickly found out that many art-festers make small goodies to trade with other artists and in the end you come home with loads of lovely goodies. The first dinner was a prime time for trading.
Even though I didn't have anything to trade, many of the artists insisted that I take one anyways. Generosity in all areas ruled supreme during Artfest.
These are some the goodies I collected from other artists. 
I thought this bag of colorful yarn was a very sweet idea. It reads, "Help A Bird Build a Nest - As you take your walk through the woods, leave small yarns along the trail to help a bird build its nest with color and flair. When you return next year, look in the trees for your colors in the nests along the way. Or weave your yarns into your won art pieces, to create you own nest to take home with you."
 
Most of the trades include the art-fester's name and contact info. Some even have their own blogs or websites. Here are some of their links: treicdesigns.com [treicdesigns.com] , uncommonarts.blogspot.com [uncommonarts.blogspot.com] , heatherchevreau.blogspot.com [heatherchevreau.blogspot.com]
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- Apr 17, 7:36am
- wine glasses with a twist
 Meet Brian and Christa of the green glass company in Weston, Wisconsin. I had the pleasure of getting to know this delightful couple at the New York Gift Fair and think their take on recycling is brilliant. And I'm not alone... their hip stemware has already made to the shelves of Barneys and Anthropologie!
The Green Glass Company takes discarded wine and beer bottles to an environmentally friendly and elegant level. By simply adding a twist, they produce two separate drinking glasses from one bottle without any waste glass. The bottom portion of the bottle becomes a tumbler and the top portion a goblet. 
All of their bottles come from the waste stream and are sorted and supplied by a partner network of wineries and wine festivals. Sometimes they also have been supplied 'resort' glass which are those bottles that have failed quality control at a glass manufacturer and are destined to be crushed.
Currently, catching fireflies carries the colbalt and cyan wine glasses created from reclaimed bordeaux bottles... a perfect gift for a wine lover. $16.50 each
- catching fireflies
 Apr 7, 1:54pm (1 review) shopping, green, earth, save-the-earth, earth-day http://www.shopcatchingfireflies.com/Qst...- Whimsical gift store located in Berkley, Michigan.
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- Apr 7, 1:40pm (1 review) shopping, gift, green, recycled, repurposed http://www.shopcatchingfireflies.com/Qst...
- Made from a reclaimed bordeaux bottle, this goblet is 100% recycled and 100% certified Green!
- catching fireflies
- Apr 3, 1:15pm (1 review) weddings, shower-gift, gift, bride, wedding http://www.shopcatchingfireflies.com/Qst...
- What a great gift for a wedding shower! Make sure he knows all there is to know about you.
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- Apr 3, 1:12pm (1 review) shopping, sister-cute-canvas, painting, sister-gift, gift-for-sister http://www.shopcatchingfireflies.com/Qst...
- This original cute canvas is colorfully painted and adorned with red crystal jewels. A perfect gift to let a sister know you care.
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- Apr 3, 12:54pm (1 review) shopping, unique-gift, frog-gift, frog-watering-can, watering-can http://www.shopcatchingfireflies.com/Qst...
- Ribbit, ribbit. I love this and it looks darling on a front porch. I'm so happy spring is finally here to stay!
- sk*rt - Personalized pretties for Moms day by artist Michelle Rubin of...
- Apr 3, 9:38am (1 review) shopping, gift-shop, gifts-jewelry, mother-s-day http://www.sk-rt.com/story.php?title=Per...
- These whimsical necklaces make perfect Mother's day gifts. Plus, Michelle is the featured artist for the month so they are 15% off.
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