Let's make the change!

Do you know how many coffee cup sleeves you use per year??? It's easy, if you drink a coffee a day (at least) when you're going to your work.. another one after lunch maybe? Being conservative, you have two right there... multiple it for the amount of days you work in a year, around 220 days (if you are the lucky one that takes 1 month vacation) you're already in 440 cups plus 440 cup sleeve in one year. Sounds like a lot of trash, awh? It is.

Sometimes we think about this and try to bring our own mug to the coffee store, but someone can say it's inconvenient, or it's big, or we forget, and so on. But there's something else we can do: take the sleeve out of the problem. It's not everything but it could be our little contribution. And most of the times, it's better to do something small than nothing at all. Doing some quick online research I found that cup sleeves make 2.8 billion pounds of waste each year; that sounded way too much trash that we can easily avoid by reusing the sleeve.

I think a good way to do anything you have to do is to make it fun. That's why I'm making these cute coffee cup sleeves that you can carry in your purse, leave it in your car, have it at work, slide it in between paper stacks, etc. They are all hand made with 100% cotton and have a Velcro closure, so they fit easily in 12oz, 16oz and 20oz cups. Some are made of printed canvas and some others are made from a thinner cotton and have also a layer of an insulate material so you don't burn your hand (the canvas' ones don't need it).

Email me if you'd like to help the cause by using one of these, or if you'd like to give it to someone special and spread the word.

         

My first blog

So, here we are... Finally trying to make this happen. I honestly don't know much about blogging, or even writing -specially because, as everybody knows, English is not my first language- but here we go.

My name is Sofia, I'm from Buenos Aires and I've been living in Maui with my husband, Matt, for the last three years. Even though this is not my country nor my hometown, I love it here as though it were both. We got married here, we play here, we work here, we go out on vacation from here, we invite friends and family here, we struggle here, we are homesick sometimes.. we live Maui in every possible way. And we are making it work, always having fun.

A while ago I bought a used sewing machine and start sewing small things for us. First some pillow cases, then a little pouch, stuffed animals for my niece and nephew, a pair of pants for me... I love to sew, is so relaxing and fun! And the most important thing, after you're done, you have something that didn't exist before. Seeing that all my production had had a great acceptance, I decided to start selling it. I will be posting everything I do so you can see it and eventually, buy it. I also will have as much as I can published on Etsy.com (www.sofidelasota.etsy.com), so people I don't know can enjoy it as well.

This is the first of a long series of postings filled with nice hand made stuff; I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Aloha!