Online - January 18, 2006

Play It Again, Sam

Eco-Artware Website

Some things refuse to die.

Depeche Mode is back on your iPod. Your winter belly has settled in for its annual visit. Even your ex has made an encore appearance to battle the going-to-die-alone Valentine’s Day spirit.

Take a cue from Eco-Artware: Quit reusing the same old stuff and reinvent. The company carries products by artists who reconfigure everything from telephone wires to quilts into something new and earth-friendly.

Like magic, wool skirts become teddy bears, bike parts turn into CD racks, and traffic signs change to trays. Vinyl records are molded into coasters and pre-Google typewriter keys become bracelets with authentic vintage letters, expressions, and symbols. Even recycled-paper-pulp egg cartons become the Good Egg Footstool.

It seems there’s nothing they can’t breathe a little life into.

Then again, they haven’t met your ex.

Available online at eco-artware.com.

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