We died pretty.

Trashbag Rehab #4 was a whole heap of fun. Delightful to see so many rock up to spread germs and good times.

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(pic by Tony Gough from article in The Melbourne Leader)

The brief was brief - everyone got a Go-Go bag containing a little reading matter (below) and a mask and were set loose to pimp them up.

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Plus as an extra challenge to honour hygeine & MJ, punters were asked to decorate a single glove. WE LOVE YOU MICHAEL!!!

While crafting DJ Sean Whelan spun some sick records and Emilie Zoey Baker painted an AmaZinG, gorgeous and macabre body-paint piece of a flying pig skeleton over an eerie night skyline:

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The crafting was awesome. We’re so proud of you all. Here is a small selection:

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Check out more pics and post your own on our flickr site.

But there could only be one winner. No, actually there were THREE.

3rd place

3rd place

first we had edible undies, now we have edible mask - a natural evolution.

2nd place

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Due to a not so perfect (but SO so perfect!) grasp of the English language she thought we were in the midst of a swan flu pandemic - ♥!

1st place

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knitted snout-mask extraordinaire with s’wine glove detail.

What a lovely evening! And amidst all the revelry there was only one death.

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Many thanks to the fashionable folk from Obüs at 226 Gertrude street for donating the ace $250 first prize voucher. And to Mountain Goat who swung a slab and more our way for the second and third place winners.

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