Ruby Re-Usable regrets that she was not at the Seattle Art Museum this past Saturday for the Trash Bash fashion show, which was sponsored by the International Sustainability Institute; nor did she make it to Portland for this year’s Junk to Funk recycled fashion contest at the Wonder Ballroom, which also happened on Saturday.

Ruby Re-Usable“™s plastic bag and tape sculpture with 150 plastic lids, created especially for “Leave No Plastic Behind“  2007

Ruby hasn’t even been south to PDX yet to see the Leave No Plastic Behind reality-based art exhibit, but she did send this plastic bag baby (that is like 3 months worth of plastic lids from a family of four).

And she really wishes she could go all the way to California to check out Edith Abeyta’s ambitious recycled clothing art project, E-M-P-I-R-E, at the Wingnall Museum in Rancho Cucamonga!