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Ecoist Confetti Clutch

Apr 24, 2008 By Doug

8 Comments

This eye popping, colorful, head swiveling purse is made from repurposed candy wrappers! I have dabbled in origami but have never made anything nearly so useful. At first blush you may think that the Ecoist Everything/Anything bag would be flimsy and unreliable. Yet this functional accessory is actual water resistant and can handle your clammy paws any day of the week. Click through after the fold to see some variations on the candy wrapper theme. The Ecoist has some beautiful work to show.

Category: Bags+Briefcases • Clothes+Accessories

8 Comments, Comment or Ping

B

They sell these for about $10 Australian dollars at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. They’ve been around for about a year as far as I am aware of.

Apr 25th, 2008
Bunny

Geez…Why not tell people how to make their own instead of just posting up expensive links for people to waste their money on.

Because god forbid anybody ‘goes green’ by yanno, using their OWN leftover materials…Lets all go out and drop $40 on designer trash everybody! Just throw your own stuff away, okay? =D

Apr 26th, 2008
R

If you look at the black and white clutch close up, you can see that the words are repetitive. I doubt the material used to make these handbags are recycled…

Apr 26th, 2008
buttons

hey yea,
i would like to know how to make my own… ive been saving wrappers ever since i saw a lady with one (bought probs)

Jul 8th, 2008
becca

hey u guys i found a site thats perfect:
http://www.candywrapperpurse.blogspot.com/

Jul 14th, 2008
becca

i think they’re monitoring what we comment-i know how to make them and i commented, but they didn’t post it.

Jul 15th, 2008
Doug

Feel free to comment on how to make them, we only censor obscene language and spam. If you have clear directions and a picture of your results we could even do a how-to post.

If there is a technical issue with posting I could talk to Matt about it, in the meantime comments should post as long as the name and email fields are populated.

Thanks!

Jul 15th, 2008
Matt

Hi Becca,

Your comment was posted yesterday. Anything that has a link gets held for moderation and sometimes gets stuck in our spam filter, but I approved your comment yesterday. Did you leave another one besides the one to the blogspot article?

Jul 15th, 2008