Visa Swap weekend – swap and enjoy!
July 13, 2008 by Bird
Filed under Craft Diary, Site News
Come and meet The Birds In The Meadow in London next weekend and get a whole new wardrobe for free! The Birds In The Meadow has been invited to be part of Visa Swap’s second clothes swapping event held in Covent garden Piazza on 19th & 20th July 10am – 6pm. How does it work? Donate clothes and accessories (in good clean wearable condition, of course). When you drop-off your pieces you will receive a special Visa Swap card loaded with points relevant to what you have dropped which you can use at the final event. That’s when the fun begins – you can then “buy” anything you like as long as you have enough points! There isn’t much time left to drop off your clothes, so if you want to take part you can donate at :-
- 13th July 12 – 6pm No.1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London, WC2
- 13th July 2pm – 4pm Visa Swap Van Outside Hammersmith Traid, 119 Kings Street, Hammersmith, London
- 18th July 12 – 4pm Final Drop-off at No.1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London, WC2
You can only take part if you have donated so don’t forget to check your wardrobes and make the drop-offs! The swapping fun commences on the 19th-20th July.
- Final swap week, No.1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London, WC2 19th & 20th July 10am – 6pm
The Birds In The Meadow will be there along with a whole bunch of other up and coming designers at the Visa Swap Market, eager and ready to fulfill your environmentally friendly accessory needs. You don’t want to miss out on this, so get digging around in your wardrobes and come and join in!
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What an absolutely fun idea and event. If I were there I would go to this in a heartbeat. I LOVE things like this. AND what a great way to recycle clothing. We waste so much in America, it’s alarming.
Visa swap, sounds like fun! Thanks for stopping by my blog and putting up with my mad dancing…
Hey there, thanks for stopping by my blog! I have to agree with Rainforestrobin’s comment, I’d be there too! All of my clothes and 90% of the stuff in my home is recycled or used! Awesome idea!
Hi Robin! It was great fun, and such a good idea too! And the thing is you can do this on a small informal scale too and if anything it’s even better. A friend of mine regularly opens up her basement, which is lined with clothes rails, and a bunch of us take our unwanted clothes there to swap them. Any that are not immediately snapped up are stored until the next time. It’s really good fun and we’ve all found some lovely things
Hi Kim and thank you likewise! Yep, I’m another one for the swapping and thrift shopping way of doing things – it’s addictive and the things you find this way become really unique, treasured items. I hardly ever buy anything new – there is no need to. It’s so much better than throwaway sweatshop consumerism