Billboards turned into totes | Green Bay Press Gazette | greenbaypressgazette.com

Meet me @ the market: Billboards turned into totes | Green Bay Press Gazette | greenbaypressgazette.com:

"Andrea Martin rescues expired vinyl billboards and turns them into Trendi Totes, sturdy bags made to be stuffed with books, fresh produce or just about anything. It's a fun sideline that sprung from the A. Design Studio upholstery and interior design business she started in 2007. She first introduced the totes merely as props for an office chair display at a KI Convention Center trade show."

The professional upholsterer from Abrams has a wish list of area billboards she'd like to get her hands on once they come down, like the Oneida Casino ones that feature all those colorful betting chips.

"I want those so bad,'' she said. "Can you imagine what those stacks of chips would look like? You'd have these blue and red zigzags going on.''

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