Recycled Canvas Bags and Hats by PAZ Apparel | Fashion Peace.

Environmental Countdown

I receive a monthly newsletter from 'Environmental Countdown' and wanted to share their latest launch venture with everyone.

"We are pleased to announce the pre-launch of Environmental Countdown and we need your help. Environmental Countdown is a non-profit video community that allows environmental organizations to create profiles and upload and highlight their videos.

Our state-of-the-art easy to use technology allows organizations (and individuals) to post videos to the Environmental Countdown website, gives you the tools to create a profile page with information about your group, ways people can donate and volunteer and lets you EASILY add your video to your own website with a simple code (known as a widget). Joining and posting videos is absolutely free and there is no outside advertising associated with our site."

Thank you Ideal Bite!

The folks at Ideal Bite featured one of our hats this past week and I want to offer them my sincere thank you!

TRASHIONISTA - Sustainable style and recycled fashion!

If you love the idea of sustainability and you also love creative fashion then please take a look at a group I came across in flickr called trashionista.

Wiki-Monday: Optimism

Wiki-Monday: Optimism

Optimism is an outlook on life such that one maintains a view of the world as a positive place. People would say that optimism is seeing the glass "half full" of water as opposed to half empty. It is the opposite of pessimism. Optimists generally believe that people and events are inherently good, so that most situations work out in the end for the best.

Optimism has been shown to be correlated with better immune systems in healthy people who have been subjected to stress.[2] Ideologically convinced optimists may defend failures in their hoped-for outcomes by discussing "misplaced optimism" rather than abandoning optimism altogether.

A number of scholars have suggested that, although optimism and pessimism might seem like opposites, in psychological terms they do not function in this way. Having more of one does not mean you have less of the other.

The factors that reduce one do not necessarily increase the other. On many occasions in life we need both in equal supply. Antonio Gramsci famously called for "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will": the one the spur to action, the other the resilience to believe that such action will result in meaningful change even in the face of adversity.

I Love Fashion!

Sometimes it's just the color that catches my eye. This time it caught my eye and made me happy.

Have a look at 'One Sweet Peach' for some very lovely handmade jewelry.

I found this artists space online by searching for 'recycled fashion' since I'm all about recycling, sustainability and of course fashion.

In any case here's what the artist has to say about her?? pieces.

"All pieces are original creations and most are one of a kind with occasional exceptions of very limited editions. Materials are hand selected by the artist on numerous buying tips to find the very best selection. Vintage materials as well as gemstones are interwoven throughout her collection to offer something unique and truly one of a kind."

The Beauty of Stitching and Patching

One of the reasons I love what I am doing with my business so much is that I get to work with really fantastic recycled canvas hats and bags made from a material that's been reborn as unique one-of-a-kind fashion pieces.

(We just finished a fun photo shoot with models and I have to admit the shots came out great!)

Anyway, getting back to my point..... earlier I posted about my towels and how I take such good care of them and how I've had them for such a long time.

Well the same is true of the canvas material the truckers from Brazil use to protect their cargo loads.

They stitch and patch their canvas tarps until they are no longer of use.

That's when I get my hands on the material and have our friends in Brazil fashion the canvas into our one of a kind recycled hats and bags.

Oh and we're hearing really terrific things from a couple of stores that plan on carrying our items...so stay tuned and we'll let you know where you can see our things up close and personal. (Besides our online store that is.)

Wiki-Monday: Role Model

Wiki-Monday: Role Model

The term role model was introduced by Robert K. Merton[1]. Merton says that individuals compare themselves with "reference groups" full of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires.[2] The term has passed into general use to mean any "person who serves as an example of a positive behavior".

Who was or is your role model? Do you consider yourself a role model?