"Rubbish to runway" 2014 fashion outfit

OK as per request, I wanted to share the outfit that I had designed for the "rubbish to runway" show.
Everything used, according to the rules, had to be something that would've (or was) in the trash.
I had actually made two outfits but after they were reviewed from the artist consultants only one was used and the accessories pared down.
The title of my ensemble was  called "budgie ball".
(Because most of the outfit was made from bird food bags! )

Some of the items I made  did not make the cut in the selection process. I think, maybe, I could use it for next year's show, if indeed, I am among the many talented ladies selected.

To me, fashion is "wearable art". I love art and I love creating.
These shoes were shoes that a friend of my mother's that were destined for the dumpster.
 I salvaged them by repairing them, adding card-board, kaytee bird food bag logos, old ribbon, discarded feathers and hot glueing sand-paper on the soles so I wouldn't slip and kill myself.

Here is the vest (front and back).
I used scrap material, lined it with an old fabric shower liner, shoe-lace lace up and put a kaytee food bag picture as an applique on the back.
The necklace and earrings that I wore as accessories I used bottle caps as framers and placed  (again) pictures from the Kaytee food bags inside the caps plus old beads.

Here is the skirt made by sewing kaytee food bags together and lining it with that old fabric shower curtain liner.

At the final rehearsal, I ended up not using the scarf. It was a bit much with the busy oufit. The simplier the better.
The scarf was made using scrap fleece material, kaytee cut-outs and disgarded bird feathers.
I did use the purse featured. Again, from Kaytee food bags, bits from that shower curtain liner and the handles from a wrecked grocery bag.

I have ideas for  NEXT years show. After seeing some of the incredible creations from some of the other ladies involved it inspired me to amp it up in "my creativity department".
Maybe next year's ensemble will be titled: "fifty shades of grey cockatiels". (:O

"rubbish to runway" fashion show 2014

Last year my cousin and I attended this fundraiser called "rubbish to runway" in NBPT to raise funds for project "Long Way home" for sustainable housing (and education) in Guatemala. She wanted to go because the Mayor of NBPT (who she campaigned for) was in the fashion show and also for her interest in latino countries.
I poked along because I am always interested in artsy endeavors and was fascinated that the badly needed schools in Guatemala funded by this group were made by using discarded coke bottles as windows. Guatemala is a very poor country.
This is what prompted the theme -"rubbish to runway". Trash was reused and recycled no matter what was considered "junk".
Therefore the idea of taking stuff you would ordinarily throw away and making it into something beautiful, useful and downright fashionable was the theme for the show. The fund-raising effort seemed to be a worthy Christian cause.
So this year, I volunteered.
 I made an outfit out of Kaytee bird food bags, shedded feathers, scrap material, plastic bottle caps and an old stained shower curtain liner.
And being the ham that I am I also volunteered to be a model as well.
Some of the outfits the other "designers' made were extraordinary.
I only posted a few of the outfits but I have to say they were all amazing.

This "model", modeled and designed this dress made out of plastic spoons, forks, knives and plates! It was stunning!

This "model", modeled and designed this dress out of old pill bottles and expired pills! All I could think of that this dress would be perfect for "Nurse Jackie ". It definitely had the "wow' factor!

This "model", modeled and designed this dress out of old hospital scrubs. Amazing!

This 'model" modeled this dress for her friend. It was made from scrap material she found "dumpster diving' and New York Times newspapers. She was absolutely breathtaking!

This "model", designer is a high school kid! OMG! She made this out of corregated computer paper!

Ok here I am.

Hey, I've been seriously working out my arm muscles so why not flaunt it?
It's good clean fun!
And the money raised goes to a good cause, so why not?

Oh, BTW here are the shoes I "made" and wore for the show.

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Parrot missing for years returns speaking Spanish

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Posted: Oct 13, 2014 1:11 PM EDT Updated: Oct 14, 2014 4:43 PM EDT

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner - and the bird now speaks Spanish.
The reunion was brought about by a Southern California veterinarian who mistook Nigel, an African gray parrot, for her own missing bird, the Daily Breeze reported Sunday (http://bit.ly/1qU5dU3).
Teresa Micco tracked Nigel's microchip to Darren Chick, a Brit who lives in Torrance.
"I introduced myself and said, 'Have you lost a bird?'" Micco told the newspaper. "He initially said, 'No.' But he thought I meant recently."
When she verified Chick's name and said she had his African grey parrot, "He looked at me like I was crazy."
He said his bird went missing four years earlier.
Little is known about Nigel's whereabouts the past four years, but Chick says the bird's British accent is gone, and it now chatters in Spanish.
Chick says last week's reunion brought tears of joy to his eyes - despite the fact that Nigel bit him when he first tried to pick him up.
Micco said the behavior was not unusual and that Nigel would settle back in soon enough.
"He's doing perfect," Chick told the newspaper by the week's end. "It's really weird. I knew it was him from the minute I saw him."
It's the fifth parrot reunion facilitated by Micco, who has been running ads for her own missing bird for nine months. That parrot, Benjamin, flew the coop in February when it darted out a door that was left open.
Julissa Sperling found Nigel outside her home and brought him to Micco after seeing one of her ads.
But first, she took Nigel to her dog-grooming business.
"He was the happiest bird. He was singing and talking without control," Sperling said. "He was barking like the dogs. I'm from Panama and he was saying, 'What happened?' in Spanish."