Used & Abused Cabo Verde

From one very poorly kite, which surrendered following 3 winter months on Sal... to a laptop sleeve filled with all the fun memories made while kiting here! 😃🇨🇻

🇬🇧 Struggling for inspiration to find the perfect Christmas gift for your loved ones? After such a difficult year, maybe you feel you would like to treat those you love most with something really special, different and original? If you are looking for a really special, unique, personalised, original, handcrafted gift for a loved one or a friend this Christmas, why not treat them to a voucher for one of our gorgeous Used & Abused bags, handmade locally by ourselves out of recycled kites and windsurf sails?
We offer vouchers for the value of each one of our models (beach bag, messenger bags small, medium or large, and sports bags) so you can choose what best suits your purse/budget and your loved one’s dream gift.
They can then redeem their voucher at their leisure, and choose themselves their design, colour schemes and style, by visiting our workshop where we will discuss with them all their requirements and wishes, and we will then produce their unique and personalised bag.
By purchasing one of our bags or voucher, you will also contribute to:
• support a small local business
• help care for the environment
• gift a loved one a beautiful, unique, useful, locally handcrafted bag
To find out more, or to buy a voucher or a bag, please contact us on 9933845 (mobile / WhatsApp) to discuss prices and options.
Thank you for your continued support without which none of what we do would be possible. Merry Christmas to you all, and may the New Year bring us all good health, peace, joy and the possibility to finally go back to a life with work and some form of normality!

🇵🇹 Você precisa de inspiração para encontrar um presente de Natal perfeito para seus entes queridos? Depois de um ano tão difícil, talvez você sinta que gostaria de tratar as pessoas que você mais ama com algo realmente especial, diferente e original? Se você está procurando um presente realmente único, personalizado, original e feito à mão para um ente querido ou um amigo neste Natal, porque não presentear eles com um voucher para uma de nossas lindas bolsas Used & Abused CV, feito à mão localmente por nós mesmos com kites reciclados e velas de windsurf recicladas?
Oferecemos vouchers no valor de cada um dos nossos modelos (bolsa de praia, bolsa pequena, média ou grande e bolsa de desportes) para que você possa escolher o que mais se adapta aos seus recursos e ao presente dos sonhos dos seus entes queridos.
Eles podem então resgatar seu voucher quando querem, o e escolher seu design, cores e estilo, visitando nosso workshop onde discutiremos com eles todas as suas necessidades e desejos, e então produziremos sua bolsa exclusiva e personalizada.
Ao comprar uma de nossas malas ou voucher, você também contribuirá para:
• apoiar uma pequena empresa local
• ajudar a cuidar do meio ambiente
• presenteie um ente querido com uma bolsa bonita, única, útil e artesanal

Para saber mais, ou para comprar um voucher ou uma bolsa, entre em contato conosco pelo telefone 9933845 (móvel / WhatsApp) para discutir preços e opções.

Obrigado por seu apoio contínuo, sem o qual nada do que fazemos seria possível.

Feliz Natal a todos e que o Ano Novo traga a todos nós muita saúde, paz, alegria e a possibilidade de finalmente voltarmos a uma vida com trabalho e uma forma de normalidade!

Happy Christmas to me! :D

Please meet the lovely Judith proudly sporting BOTH her Used & Abused bags :) As Judith is a kiter, her bags include lots of technical references to kiting so that she can feel that fun beach feeling even when she is at work! ;) Thank you so much for trusting us again with your work bag, Judith!

A very colourful Rebel bag for the most rebellious girl on our island, Petra! Her brief included some turquoise, bright colours, geometrical shapes, different textures, the Rebel logo and a special compartment for her sunnies and one for her pen :) A bag full of fun, like its proud owner ;)

A sports bag for the lovely Julia, currently travelling its way through beautiful parts of Italy, getting filled with fun memories, we hope! :D

A little bit of nostalgia: pre-quarantina work, when people were still on Sal! A bag full of fun memories from his time working here in Cabo Verde! We miss you Matteo! Big hugs from Santa Maria 🤗🇨🇻🇮🇹💚

Bon voyage, Francesca and Dragi! You are leaving Sal with a fab Used & Abused Cabo Verde bag full of fun memories collected during pre-Covid times as well as during the quarantina and post lockdown! 😉 It was great spending some of those fun times with you guys, safe travels!😀🥰🤗🏄‍♂️🌊☀️✈️💚🇨🇻🇭🇷🇮🇹

What lovely photos of lovely people with lovely bags!! Thank you so much for ordering such fun bags to make, we really enjoyed following your specific briefs and we are delighted you are pleased with the final result!! :D Enjoy the sunshine that we packed inside the bags for you, guys! ;) Lots of love from sunny Santa Maria to all the family

This is what we do in between repairs of poorly Kites & Windsurf Sails or bag making! :)

A very secure design for the lovely Adrian, who needed his bag to fasten firmly thanks to an extra inside clip, to keep all his goodies safe when he travels :) Great modelling skills there Adrian! Thank you for entrusting us with making you a very specific bag, and thank you for the pic!xx