Every coffee sack I handle begins its life on a coffee plantation as a practical shipping container and typically ends its life discarded as a piece of trash.  I look past the mundane aspects of an old, sometimes dirty and torn, burlap sack and I see a beautiful canvas to design and create an original work of art. Every sack is unique with beautiful prints, graphics and logos that come from a variety of far away places. I arrange the original graphics and printing as the central design on my bags and baskets and I use the leftover plain scraps of burlap to construct my wine totes, mini baskets, and home decor items. In addition to upcycling the burlap from the coffee bean sacks, many of the linings and accent fabrics I choose for my designs are fabrics recycled from past projects or donated remnants. 

The entire premise of my business is a concept I learned years ago in Girl Scouts, to "Leave the world a better place than you found it." I love designing, creating, and refashioning these trashed sacks into a treasure that is not only new and beautiful, but useful and sustainable too. I hope you will join me in seeing the beauty of upcycling trash into treasures and leaving the world a better place.