RecycleVintageStudio has a Mission!
Welcome to Recycle Vintage Studio, which has a mission beyond simply selling stuff. My goal is to encourage up-cycling, re-use, or recycling of household and natural materials. Whether or not you buy anything from me, I hope you are inspired by seeing creative ways to re-use various materials. If you do buy from me, I pack carefully and ship almost every day, so you should get your items fast and in the condition you expect. I ship with mostly recycled materials as well.
Most of my current listings are based on stockpiles of recyclable things I have in my house - especially broken computers, cell phones, and other small electronics. (My husband may or may not have called me a hoarder, and he may or may not be right.) In Recycled Vintage Studio, I am selling some of my stockpiled materials for you to re-use (or up-cycle, or in the old days before the phrase up-cycling was coined, we just called it recycling).
I grew up in a family of designers, crafters, and artists, so I am also selling some of their vintage creations, and their vintage art and craft books. (Don't worry, I have enough of their creations left in my home to remember them by.) Also selling things that I have made over the years, but haven't used, because I make more stuff than I actually need: decoupaged wooden boxes, handbags, jewelry, art. Occasionally, I also sell handmade things that I find at secondhand stores; I love to see other peoples' discarded handiwork get the appreciation it deserves. Please enjoy looking around my store, and thank you for your interest.
In keeping with my recycled theme, I use almost entirely recycled packaging materials (lots of friends in the area save their packaging for me.) I know Etsy shoppers like pretty packaging, and I am trying to add some pretty flourishes to my packaging, but my priorities are still (1) packing your items safely and securely for shipment and (2) re-using the packing materials at my disposal, instead of buying new and fancier packaging materials for items I sell on Etsy.
