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Craft maker uses recyclables as raw materials

photo Micah Runion calls her line of handmade products Oh Sew Trashy. Staff Photo by Angela Lewis/Chattanooga Times Free Press

Micah Runion said she can be just a little, well, trashy.

“Sometimes I’m not known as the classiest person,” she said. “I tend to speak my mind.”

She found a way to speak her mind through craft, creating bags, wallets, iPad cases and jewelry from recycled magazines, newspapers, record album covers, you name it.

Her husband, Joshua, came up with the name for her line of products: Oh Sew Trashy.

“We were looking for something that said ‘recycled,'” Micah Runion said, and ‘trashy’ went more with ‘recycled’ …”