Made on the Left – This Sat & Sun

Made on the Left has come around again.
Get yourselves there and support WA made.

This Saturday & Sunday
10am – 4pm
The Saint Hotel, Upstairs
2 Morris Rd, Innaloo

* Different designers each day.
* Nonworkers will be there with our wares tomorrow only.
* Check out the stallholders

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Reuse your old user manuals, don’t chuck em!

Transformation Complete!

We are biiig into reusing. Finding a new use for an old thing is our go and so we present our ‘Whatever shall I do with this old user manual?’ idea.

If you usually buy sketchbooks but you have old manuals just sitting around, why not save yourself a bit of money AND do something nice for the environment.

So, what have you got? – a box of old cards, photos, tickets and notes you hardly ever look at because it’s stuck in a cupboard somewhere; recipes on slips of paper strewn about the place; scattered scribbles (this is me) – whatever. Here’s how old user manuals can help you get it together.

Instructions:

1. Grab an old manual (or book)
2. Gather your content
3. Paste or tape content to pages

For that extra nice touch: Bread tags for tabs = very helpful

Hey presto! Here is a bunch of things such a book could contain:

* ideas
* notes
* reference material
* inspirational images
* sketchbook
* recipes

It might not look perfect but it’s more interesting for it – not to mention Molto Creativo!

Organise your recipes - Sweet, Savoury, Nan's

So, next time you are wandering – trance-like – down the stationery aisle looking for that new sketchbook, snap out of it. Think of all the old books and manuals you have at home and give em a fighting chance.

reuse or feel baaad - the choice is yours - GB

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Shop Happy


We’ve finally gotten around to setting up our new shop using bigcartel – a smart and simple way to create and customise your own shopping cart.

Of course, we are keeping our shop at madeit (we love madeit!), but having our own shop means you won’t have to sign up to purchase our products which has been a sticking point for some customers.

There are a few products there right now and we hope to add more in the coming weeks.

Link: nonworkers.bigcartel.com

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New Things Coming Soon

Gosh, we have been ignoring our online duties in 2010, haven’t we? Oh the pain … of updating blogs and social networks – perhaps we’re just not cut out for such things. Perhaps a blog is not for us, or a twitter, or a facebook. Something may need to be done about that … but later.

Though we currently lack online wakefulness, we can report that we’ve not been resting on our laurels in other areas. We’ve been busy working on a variety of wonderful things and soon enough they will appear on the site.

So, until then …

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