This week’s Earth Friendly Etsy giveaway is from La Alicia, a fun little shop opened by Alicia Collina-Ashby in December of 2007. La Alicia is full of Earth Friendly frills including; earrings, bobbies, clocks and purses, all made out of recycled materials. Her fave materials to use are recycled paper, maps and buttons. Alicia is offering a Mini Eco Clutch. Wouldn’t this be the perfect little bag to grab on your way out the door. It is made using last month’s magazines, catalogs and other uninvited mail. Isn’t it a fantastic collage of colors, words and images.
Alicia is inspired by giving new life to objects that would otherwise find their way into the landfill. Alicia’s mission is to make our society a more Earth friendly place to live and she is committed to doing three good things for the Earth each day. She recycles, uses fabric shopping bags and limits her car trips. This year she is also focusing on avoiding plastic and using more food grade stainless steel, shopping at her local Farmer’s Market and having at least three meat free meals a week. Fantastic.
Jump over to LaAlicia and check out her fantastic store and leave a comment to enter!
I will choose a winner on October 4th!
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* A huge thank you to Alicia at La Alicia for sponsoring this giveaway!
** UPDATE: WINNER: Laura Kirk is our winner! Congratulations and enjoy.
hi, is this giveaways already closed? I like alicia s Wreath – Recycled Map Garden.:-)
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Very creative items,,,I especially like the Bee Beau Brooch. very cute!
Thanks for the great green giveaway.
katklaw777
I love her work! It’s amazing what she can create from every day stuff we’d just throw away!
I love her clutches, and her Eco Chic Brooch in black and white is a gorgeous gift idea!
Pili
I love her work! It’s amazing what she can create from every day stuff we’d just throw away!
I love her clutches, and her Eco Chic Brooch in black and white is a gorgeous gift idea!
Phoenix
I love La Alicia’s work! Excellent recycling of magazines and catalogs. It’s amazing how she turns them into cute clutches and accessories
Rita
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I like the Penny Q Punctual clock
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Angela K
The Eco Chic Leaf Earrings are so cute! i love the designs in her shop.
Angela K
Very creative & eco-friendly. I like the winged brooch & the heart pendant.
Phoenix
I love her work! It’s amazing what she can create from every day stuff we’d just throw away!
I love her clutches, and her Eco Chic Brooch in black and white is a gorgeous gift idea!
Phoenix
I have had the pleasure of viewing Alicia’s work in person and can tell you that even these great phototos don’t do justice to the real thing. Whoever wins the bag is going to love it!
So cool!!! Love your stuff.
It’s encouraging to see how La Alicia takes colorful left-overs from our paper, bits & bobs and recycles them into things that are attractive and useful. I like the coin pouches & earrings best. Maybe I’ll become a chica eco-nista!
I think this is very creative and would love to win it. Thanks!
its lovely you are very talented
I LOVE all your things!!!! SO FUN AND CREATIVE!!! I would LOVE to win this clutch!!! I’m a college student and think this clutch is SUPER cute for going out or even for just running around town and campus!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! I hope you choose ME!!! 🙂
Its always a great pleasure to also see another person caring about the environment. Let’s all work together to preserve Mother Earth ! 2 thumbs up on your works La Alicia ! – fnflopez@yahoo.com
I have to say I just visited your site and every product is more awesome then the other. You do GREAT work.
Would love a free eco-friendly item!
Perfect! i wanna win it!. i hope you choose me.
I love it. That is sooooo cool. Hope I can win one. Would really love to show it off. Go Green.
Tanya Craven
north charleston,
sc
wow, this is awesome. i love it
true inspiration!
hats off to u!
my mom is a teacher 🙂 i showed her this n she started making stuff and teaching the children 🙂
the best thing i liked is about avoiding plastics!
it is most harmful to the environment. keep up the good work. we are always with you 🙂
Love the website, I am really glad to see more “green”!!!!
Cool purse!
Wow this thing is amazing! I always loved recycled things, that you wouldn’t expect, and this is awesome!
Beautiful, awesome way to recycle!!
Hello. I just found this website, and I think that you have some great ideas! I love recycling things. Some things I recycle: those envelopes that come with your bills (reuse them for mailing letters), bubble wrap & mailers (reuse), deli potato salad containers & glass jars from jelly, etc. (sort screw, nails, nuts, bolts,etc. into them) Why throw these things away when they can become something useful and save you money?
I absolutely love this little bag. I hope I make the giveaway.
This is really great!!! But if it’s made of paper, how does it do in rain?
It’s a really beautiful clutch. and it’s even better that it’s recycled 🙂
wow a lovely bag. and i m a high school student and i would would to win this clutch. and i think it would be perfect with a cute t-shirt and pair of skinnies. thaanks! 🙂
so cute! i’d love to win the giveaway!
This bag is probably the most genius creation I’ve ever seen. 😀
love the eco-chic corkboard and cigar box purse, so creative
I would love to win the pouch/wallet I am in love with it!!!!
The bag is really beautiful and is a Gaia-conscious piece of work–my hat is off to you!!!
great bag idea! NYC girls need more options to carry our things. This seems fun & love that it’s green! good luck to whomever wins = )
Very creative work. I like the Creme Brulee – cigar box purse!
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Very creative and environmentally safe. I love them all.
These are absolutely adorable!
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Very nice bag! Love it
creative, inspiring and useful creations
creative, everyday inspiring ideas
I love love love her stuff- they are so cute and creative!
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I am amazed at your imagination and creativity! This clutch is the most fashionable accessory I have seen in recent times.I would love to own one. I wish everyone in the world would start thinking on the same lines as you.Then we could make the world a greener and more habitable place for many more generations to come.Keep up your genius work!
Hi. I just found out this link from some other site and I am really amazed to look at the stuff. Its marvellous. I never knew one can make such useful stuff from waste things. Specially in my part of the world, there is nothing as such going on. And I like the slogan “SWEET GREENS”
Hats off !! I would really love to get this purse so that I can show people around me whats going on around to make useless things useful.
Thanks..
Fatima.
Pakistan
I love everything, very nice. Especially the Eco-chic Tutti Fruitti headband and all the cute little bobby pins. Lots of times eco green type items don’t look like things you’d really want to wear or carry around, but all of your items are wearable and cute.
jhbalvin at gmail dot com
it is beautiful
Such a great idea! I hope someday people will start to apreciate more this eco-hand.made stuff. It’s great. In my country (Romania) you can’t find anything like this. 🙂 It’s awesome
Thank you for recycling in such a beautiful way.
My daughter is hoping I win so she can show it to her friends at school. Thanks for making GREEN fun and pretty