Ellie Vision
Newspaper Jewelry
Who said the news paper market is going out of business? Deco found some local designers who are making pretty things out of news print.
These days, green is the new black. Just ask the folks at Gi and Pindo.
CINDY: "We actually take newspaper and recycle them and convert them into being bracelets, earrings, necklaces, pendants."
The South Florida sisters saw more than newspapers in their recycling bin they saw the beginning of an online jewelry company.
GISELLE JIMIENEZ: "The newspapers usually they get recycled but not a lot of people recycle them-so we decided to use newspaper."
Growing up in an Eco friendly house it wasn't hard for Gi and Pindo to find their inspiration.
GISELLE JIMIENEZ: "Basically the way that we design is we actually sit down with a piece of paper and start putting it together and just start making shapes and it comes out."
After a roll, a fold, a weave and some bling the paper goes from what you read to what you wear.
GISELLE: "We copyrighted the cylinder not the embellishment, but the cylinder also the corset one."
You can get everything from bangles, to rings, to cuffs but since the jewelry has a waterproof coating, what you can't get - is the ink on yourself.
GISELLE JIMIENEZ: "It's something different and were giving a little bit to the earth, back to the earth."
Jewelry isn't the only accessory getting made out of newspaper at imagine boutique in the shops at midtown you can go green, by getting green veranda.
Now you get to wear yesterday's headline as a handbag.
DENISE: "We specialize in handbags and accessories made out of recycled newspaper--they're very stylish and sophisticated."
The folks at Green Veranda take newspaper misprints and overprints mix them with eco friendly fabrics to make purses that even Louis Vutton would lust over.
DENISE: "Some collections you see the green pops out..the blue pops out --from the news paper--theres no paint added to it. its from the paper."
Since the stuff is designed in the us, and made by a Co Pp of women in Brazil Green veranda is even giving back world wide.
DENISE: "Per item that we sell we plant a tree in the us,--we support fair trade labor--and third a percent of our profit goes to organizations that supports the enviornemtn and children in need."