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$50 gift card giveaway

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:30:41 +0000

It is pretty easy to get $50 of REcreate designs goodies coming your way. We are building up our website and want to continue to send out offers and coupons monthly to great folks like yourself. If you are not already a facebook fan, become one, and sign up for our $50 gift card giveaway. The drawing will be held on Feb 29th (yep it is a leap year this year!). One entry per person, but you can certainly get your friends and family to submit as well. Thanks for supporting small businesses with big dreams.

my aha moment

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:21:42 +0000

holiday MADE fair | 2011

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:39:33 +0000

Old is new - Designer finds future in recycled clothes

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:09:59 +0000

Some people are consumed by their craft. Then there’s Carol Lynn Lapotka of REcreate Designs, who sees her life in terms of skirts.
“If my husband and I want to stay in a hotel when we drive home for Christmas, that’s about two skirts,” she says. “And I have to sell four skirts to pay for the groceries this week.”
The Missoula clothing designer reads books like Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things to better understand the business and environmental ins-and-outs of her skirt-making venture. It’s a fairly serious approach to an operation that basically recycles old T-shirts and sweatshirts and makes them into hip couture.
But in a time when economic woes have unraveled other businesses, Lapotka is thriving—so much so that she quit her day job at a graphic design company this past August and now brings home the bacon for her and her husband, James, who is in law school.
Since 2005 when she first started REcreate, Lapotka, 31, has doubled her sales. Read more on the Independent website

REcreate in the Press - InBusiness Monthly

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:28:34 +0000

Talk about a Northside revival. The Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC)—with artist/teacher Hanna Hannan at the helm— houses artist studios, a gallery, community workroom and a space where artists sell their wares. Since officially opening in September, ZACC’s already held numerous shows—involving theater, film, poetry, music and art exhibits—among other DIY and kid-centric events. Read Full Article Scroll down to the bottom of page to see article.