The heart of Second to None is really this, building a community. And it feels great when people share their repurposing ideas. This one is sent by Aparna, who converted a wine box into a jewellery organizer. The handles were made with bead buttons from a discarded dress and the hanging beads from another broken earring.

Aparna, who lives in NJ, is a student of Chitra Kala Parishat and she believes in recycling. The pair of earrings in the middle of the jewellery case (between the long green beads and red beads) are made with chiku seeds. She makes lovely earrings with dried leaves, flowers, and seeds.

Thank you Aparna for sharing, via Suman Anand!

If you have a great recycling idea, do share it with us!

UPDATES!

Pramila will be at the market from 2 to 6 PM with her recycled plastic self-watering pots and decoupage products!

TreesForFree will be there all day to talk about their effort to bring the trees back to Bangalore. Please show up, talk to them and support them! 

We will have Vani Murthy at the market from 11 AM to 2 PM to talk to interested people about composting in their neighbourhoods and making use of waste. (http://ecomurthy.wordpress.com/)

Collection boxes for clothes, and books to be donated to schools will be available. If you have empty diaries, notebooks and such which can be used by children as notebooks, please donate.

Book exchange! One table will be dedicated to exchanging books. Bring a book and take a book, in the spirit of the same being done at the literary fest, Lekhana.

ENTRY FEE: Like in the last market, we will have an entry fee of Rs.20 each for visitors, which will go towards covering our few expenses and to Jaaga.

See you all soon!

This form is for folk for who would like to sell used goods at the Second to None flea market. Please read through carefully before you fill out the form and submit it.

NOTE: The market is for used / recycled / upcycled goods, and a limited number of home kitchen / organic food outlets ONLY. 

Space: Jaaga will support up to 25-30 sellers at once. Please pick from:

11 AM to 1 PM or

2 PM to 6 PM or

Whole day

Depending on the number of sellers and the takers for slots, Second to None will facilitate the slots and inform you.

Registration: Please provide all the information asked for and submit. You will receive an e-mail at the ID you specify, to confirm your participation.

Infra: In the spirit of an open market, there will not be commercial tables available to display goods. Please bring mats / sheets of about 4 feet x 6 feet to display your goods. Chairs will be made available. We will have about 8 small tables ONLY on the premises, first come, first served. If you have small tables to display, please bring along.

Time: If you have the morning slot of 11 AM to 1 PM, please arrive at the venue by 10.30 AM. If you have the 2 PM to 6 PM slot, please arrive by 1 PM.

Fee: No registration fee for selling, but we will approach you for donations to support minimal market expenses, please contribute!

We may update the forum with new information, so please do stay in touch.

Go check out the instructions on how to make this here.

Sharing one pic from Maya’s blog here, for colour inspiration!

The picture is courtesy maya*made, please do not copy without permission from Maya.

She is not exclusively into salvaging cloth and making these lovely coordinated sets, but it is something she has followed up to make the most use of any fabric she can find. And they look nice!

They range around Rs.300 Rs.400 for a sheet plus a pillow cover. to For these patchwork sheets, Sangita can be contacted at:

9, 4th Main Road, 1st Cross, Rammohanpura (near Devaiah Park), Bangalore.

Ph: 9900254100, 080 231344651

At mayamade, nothing is impossible, as I am completely surprised each time I visit a new DIY project that has a beginning in turning something as innocuous as a toilet paper tube into a thing of beauty, AND, use. The idea is from there, where Maya uses the insides of security envelopes to such lovely effect. I have used colourful paper which looks good anyway, but I do want to look further and use even innocuous paper like she does, perhaps when the next set of bills come along .

It is so simple. Just use a sharp enough serrated knife or mini saw to cut toilet paper tubes, kitchen tissue tubes. Trim the raw edges with sharp scissors. Cut colourful paper into exactly the same width as the cardboard and glue on. Use gently and these rings will last a while.

Thin strips of Chumbak gift wrap, left over after wrapping birthday gifts.

The borders of a thambulam (the coconut and betel leaf) giveaway cover from a wedding.

Make them a little more interesting by gluing on a plain colour and over that, a colourful strip.

So remember not to throw away those dull brown tubes. Slightly larger tubes from cellophane tape or masking tape and such can be converted into curtain rings too. The possibilities are quite endless!

DO SHARE your ideas on the blog, we would love to have them here for more readers to delightfully stumble on! Write a blog post, share your photographs. Just write in to secondtononemarket@gmail.com with your ideas.

And all the inspiration in the world can be found at maya*made. Maya creates things of beauty from the most simple, every day materials that are a joy to see and read about. She has been a sport and has OK’d sharing some of her creations on Second to None, so here is one of many DIY projects! This is super exciting, actually because I have been a fan!

This she calls the reinvention scarf. It IS a reinvention because the pieces come together to create something that is more than the sum of its parts. Plain fabric, pockets (!) to create a stash pouch, bits of lace, a few buttons maybe…

Inspired as yet? Read the full post here.

All quoted text and photographs are courtesy maya*made. Please do not copy posts or the photographs without prior permission from maya*made.

The tables at the cafe are just large construction bricks with stone slabs placed on top (pics of that coming up soon!)

Seen any interesting reuse ideas of late? Share them!

Another view…

- Maya of maya*made

Just the mission statement for DIY projects using whatever materials you can find, don’t you think?