We’re back!  Did you miss us?  Whatever.  It’s summer time here in the Pacific Northwest, and we’ve been busy doing stuff.  And now we intend to post about the interesting, artsy, reusable stuff we’ve been doing, like all the trash fashion stuff we’ve gotten involved in lately:

M models the plastic bag frock she is working on for What You Got Fest

On Sunday and Monday, Ruby Re-Usable opened up her studio to the kids from the Olympia Film Society’s What You Got Fest.  About a dozen participants reused plastic bags, discarded baling twine, colorful paper packaging that was once used to wrap lamps, an old space blanket, leftovers from commercial film processing, and other stuff that Ruby had been hoarding saving for this kind of workshop.  The final fashion show will be held on Saturday, September 24 at the Capitol Theater (exact time TBA).  See more pics of these works-in-progress HERE

CleoTrasha wears Ruby Throws Caution to the Wind at the Oly Pride Parade

Last month, Ruby sent two of her repurposed plastic bag flower fascinators to New Orleans for an exhibit about artsy fascinators entitled Fascinate Me (including the one pictured above); more pics of Ruby’s fabulous fascinators HERE

Doggie Doo Blues by Ruby Re-Usable at the Trashion 2011 Exhibit photo by Urban Woodswalker

She also shipped 2 of her trash fashion outfits to the Indiana Welcome Center for the Trash to Treasure Trashion Show; more pics HERE (Doggie Doo Blues was also in the Seattle Trash Fashion Show back in April, read about it HERE)

More trash fashion and recycle art posts and other trashy fun summer stuff soon, until then, love,etc Ruby