WelshTrini are Rebecca Perkins and Dave Graceson
Well, I guess it was the next step wasn’t it?!
We’re both excited about sharing a little more than the pictures we regularly post on Instagram. We’d like to share with you our ethos, the things that are important to us, the way we live, a little of our story as a couple, the importance of our heritage and yes, a few hopes and dreams for our business.
It’s always a bit weird starting something new, I mean, what do you write in a first blog post? So I guess we might as well start at the very beginning. It all began with a gift. Dave’s father and step mother had just returned from visiting family in Jamaica and they’d brought us back a bag of Blue Mountain coffee. I was delighted, being the coffee drinker! It’s an unaffordable luxury here, so was thrilled to receive this gift!
The inspiration for Urban Upcycle
Dave asked me one day once the coffee had been drunk and all that remained was hessian bag,
“What could you make out of this bag? I’m curious because there are a lot of roasteries in the East End and they are selling off the large hessian sacks that the beans are imported in.”
I went straight onto Pinterest and searched ‘coffee sacks’. What couldn’t we make was more the question?! So the following weekend Dave arrived armed with a few coffee sacks and I got straight to my sewing machine. We spent the weekend talking about ‘upcycling’, our love of old things, our ‘waste not want not’ attitude learned from our upbringing, our creativity and the possibility of beginning a business together.
Our first coffee sack transformation
We’d always enjoyed browsing in charity shops. You’d be amazed what people throw out! We regularly came across brand new and barely worn designer suits, jackets and coats. Quality and a love of natural fibres is very important to both of us. We began to wonder what could be made from all these pre-loved clothes we were coming across.
Our appetite was whetted. The possibilities for what we could create were seriously going to be endless.
We’d love to hear from you, leave us a comment, tell us what you’d like to hear from us.
www.urbanupcycle.co.uk is where you’ll find all our current products.
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