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Team Captain Blog Editor/Author Jessica Woody (Eco-Friendly Freckles) Location Bixby, Oklahoma Jessica lives in Bixby, Oklahoma. She enjoys recycling and loves creating handmade items by utilizing materials that she recycles herself. Jessica transforms recycled soup and coffee cans, as well as vintage vinyl records, into original hand-painted upcycled decoupage art pieces. She also incorporates recycled magazine clippings and Yogi brand tea tag messages into her one-of-a-kind collage creations, which can be found in her Etsy shop "Eco-Friendly Freckles".  "Sunshine on a Rainy Day" Tin - See Here! Jessica's hand-painted upcycled artwork is featured in two books: Julie Rawding's Upcyclers U.S.A.: 21 Eco Folks Who Made It ...and one of Jessica's upcycled vinyl record art pieces is used as the cover art for Jen Karetnick's book of poetry titled Brie Season. Jessica is seen here in her local Tulsa Magazine Artist in Residence feature that spotlights her upcycled art and her Eco-Friendly Freckles Etsy shop. Along with her upcycled decoupage art, Jessica also carries recycled vintage treasures and ephemera in her Eco-Friendly Freckles shop. Jessica has a passion for writing and she uses her Eco-Friendly Freckles blog as her ever-flourishing outlet! Jessica and her husband Joe are excited to start building their very own Earthship home; a passive solar house made of natural and recycled materials. You can find out more about Earthships here. Jessica has a profound love for nature and she aspires to protect and restore our divine environment. She loves the Etsy Recycler's Guild! "Paulie's Confession" Canister.   See it here.

2nd in Command Blog Author Forums Treasury Challenge Organizer Andrea Scott (Storybook Artifact) Location Coweta, Oklahoma Andrea Scott lives in Coweta, Oklahoma with her husband Robert and darling baby boy Bobby. She is Team Captain Jessica's twin sister and best friend...She helps keep the captain right on track! Original Oil Painting Princess StoryBookmark Andrea's delightful shop Storybook Artifact is filled with hand-crafted StoryBookmarks, loose leaf tea blends, all-natural storybook-themed cookies, vintage items "artifacts", original drawings, sketches, and paintings...As well as "soon-to-come" personalized storybook portraits on canvas, and "Momma Knows Best" natural remedies and handy secrets. Vintage Indian Princess Earring and Charm Bracelet Set" available here. Andrea is passionate about recycling everything she can! She makes routine trips to her local recycling center. Andrea even utilizes recycled materials in the packaging of her Storybook Artifact shop orders: she uses recycled packaging for her cookie samples as well as this dazzling hand-crafted upcycled confetti that goes into each of her Storybook Artifact shop order packages!  You can view her how-to instructional picture tutorial about how to make this upcycled packaging confetti here.  Team Captain Jessica's FAVORITE cookies are these delicious "Rumpelstiltskins" from Storybook Artifact!

Team Leader  HTML Diva Admin Former Captain  Cindy Fahnestock-Schafer of RetroChalet Location Cindy resurrected the defunct group in December 2009 serving as Team Captain to recreate a group of greenies and recyclers who would offer products to the public using upcycled, recycled, reclaimed, or vintage wares, and although the group is not as active, the remaining crew dedicates themselves to living greener lives..  Cindy is a published book author and has written several helpful articles about Etsy, 10 Photography Tips Tips for Selling on Etsy  10 Tips for Etsy Sellers is the host of Living a Vintage Life Podcast, and runs the million plus visitor Melmac Central dinnerware site on vintage melamine dinnerware.  Cindy's RetroChalet Etsy shop was featured in the Handmadeology book by Jason Adams.