Earth Day: Make a Difference

Suse am 22. April 2009

green is beautiful

Yes, the issues the Earth Day brings to our minds are not nice and easy ones – and people tend to avoid them. Some argue that environmentalist are overreacting, some argue that there is no global warming at all, some react fatalistic and think that it’s too late anyway and there is nothing left to do to avoid the disaster.

But there are also many, many people who found their own way to make a difference. And as this is a crafting blog – I’ll show some crafters and designers who make a difference:

It’s not going to change the world – but it still makes a difference when you start to use eco fabrics or/and recycled materials and buy eco friendly toys.

Oh, and here is my favorite Earth Day idea: The Eco-friendly umbrella :-)

RevoluzZza for Nature

Suse am 18. April 2009

Already last year during the Fashion Week Berlin I got a request if I maybe could make some „Eco Dolls“ – dolls made from organic and fair trade  fabrics.
Of course I really liked the idea as this fits very good  to my philosophy of anti-mass-production-toys.

Unfortunately there are not so very many pretty organic and fair trade fabrics – but at Volksfaden I found some and I made this little doll which is a perfect gift for the parents of a newborn:

eco_doll_mira

So this little doll is made out of organic fabric and the felt I used for the face and the hair is a special recyling felt made out of 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles. And in her tummy she has a rattle to provide some fun for the baby – and this rattle I took from an little stuffed animal my daughter destroyed some time ago. A recycled rattle.

Which brings me to the next issue concerning a sustainable way to produce toys: Recycling. Some other plush designers already take second-hand fabrics and use them to produce their creations (like Hasenpfeffer f.e.)

The other Eco Doll I made is this cute little Pikatti girl Nini:

nini

She is made out of second-hand fabric (in her first life she was a pillowcase I bought on a flee market already some time ago), face and hair again made out of recycled plastic bottles felt and her body is filled with lamb’s wool doll wadding.

Those two are the first ones – but many other RevoluzZza creatures will follow to be made from organic and fair trade fabrics or/and second-hand fabrics.

Monster Mollo sees quite a lot of the world / RevoluzZza voll im BILDe

Suse am 21. März 2009

revoluzzza_bildLast weekend the newspaper with highest circulation in Germany and even Europe decided to show some special stuffed animals and pillows with cute faces – and they decided to show two RevoluzZza monsters too :-)

I’m not really a fan of this newspaper (actually I bought it the first time ever now) – but of course it’s nice to see parts of my monster family there :-)

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Am letzten Sonntag wurde nun zum ersten Mal die BILD gekauft – denn die BILD am Sonntag brachte ein Special über besondere Kuschelpuppen und Kissen mit Gesichtern. Und dabei waren auch zwei RevoluzZza-Mollo-Monster :-)

RevoluzZza meets Smila

Suse am 17. März 2009

Seit heute  gibt’s im Zaubermaschen-Shop ganz wunderbare Stickdateien mit einer Anleitung zum Nähen von monströsen Schlüsselanhängern – zu Smilas tollen Monstern hat sich Monster Ninni noch hinzugeschlichen.

Viel Spaß beim Sticken und Nähen und Werkeln und Mini-Monster erschaffen :-)

Und als Gemeinschafts-Projekt von Smila und mir spenden wir jetzt zum Online-Gang einen Betrag an die Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei – und 1 Euro vom Verkauf jeder Monster-Stickdatei geht ebenfalls an die DKMS. Tut also was Gutes und werdet kreativ: Kauft monströse Stickdateien :-)

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As of today you can buy in the Zaubermaschen-Shop a wonderful stitching data file and tutorial to create monstrous key pendants – and little monster Ninni joined Smila’s monsters.

I hope you have a lot of fun while you are stitching and creating cute little monsters :-)

Smila and I made this project together and we decided to donate a certain amount of money now to the Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei (German bone marrow donor database) and with every data file that is sold, 1 Euro goes also to the DKMS. So: Do something good and get creative :-)

minimonstasvorschau

Noch ein Wort zur DKMS: Der Fall der kleinen Helene ist ja durch die Presse und die Blogs gegangen – und viele Menschen haben sich glücklicherweise schon Typisieren lassen. Allerdings kostet jede einzelne Typisierung 50 Euro. Es wird also wirklich jede Spende benötigt – damit Menschen, die eine Knochenmarkspende benötigen – geholfen werden kann. Hier könnt Ihr Geld spenden. Und hier könnt Ihr Lebensspender werden.