Today the State Capitol Museum here in Olympia, WA presented a fun event: in conjunction with the on-going Sasquatch exhibit, they hosted Big Foot Holiday Fun, with a Christmas choir, reindeer, horse and carriage rides, Big Foot cookies to decorate … Continue reading →
Northwest Designer Craftsmen have a new show at South Puget Sound Community College’s Minnaert Center for the Arts Gallery: High Tech/Low Tech opens tonight at 7 pm, and Ruby Re-Usable will be there, along with some of our favorite Olympia … Continue reading →
The night before Hanukkah rain storm/flood here in the Pacific Northwest has left Ruby Re-Usable wishing she were a duck … of course, she IS the main mallard organizing the 5th annual Duck the Malls (along with OFS live events … Continue reading →
Olympia Dumpster Divers is proud to read about our own Bil Fleming in the pages of the Olympian; we have reprinted the article here so as to spare you from having to view those hideous ads about varicose veins. (ps … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Dumpster Diving Diva Diane Kurzyna just finished a two week gig as an artist-in-residence at Daffodil Valley Elementary School in Sumner, WA, where she worked with five 3rd and 4th grade classes, creating biographical/autobiographical figurines out of recycled materials. This … Continue reading →
Its great to get paid to have fun, and these past two workshops I did at Whirligig really were fun. I am so impressed by all of the innovative candy wrapper creations that the participants produced, including the very orange … Continue reading →
We had so much fun making Sweet Wishes fairies out of candy wrappers and other junk that we are going to do it again: Sunday, November 11, 1 pm – 3 pm, at Whirligig (gogreen@thewhirligig.net, 314 Capitol Way N, Olympia, … Continue reading →
We have been remiss on the Halloween crafts this year, so check out the Diary of a Crafty Chica for some holiday ideas. Minnie Mouse (please note the black coffee lid ears) served up an americano today at Batdorf & … Continue reading →
Make Art: Olympia Dumpster Diver Bil Landfill Fleming‘s recycled art installation at the Capitol Theater continues to get noticed; Alec Clayton reviews it in the Volcano HERE. Learn how to transform candy wrappers into Sweet Wishes fairies with ODD Diva … Continue reading →
