We all have some junk sitting around our homes, in the basement, the garage, or storage unit. But, if we just take a minute to think, we can come up with some creative ways to repurpose those things.

Let’s all take a little inspiration from Junk to Funk in Portland, Oregon. These sustainable artists use trashion edutainment to get people to pay attention to the wonderful things they can make by simply putting someone else’s junk to use.

Even Miss Oregon 2010 got into the act by wearing a swimsuit made out of discarded bike tire tubes. How cool is that?

And look at this cute outfit made out of ‘junk’.

And here are a few more creative recraftings


So I have one question for you…