I was greatly honored to be chosen to create a living art installation made completely from upcycled objects for the 5th annual Art All Night at the Roebling Wire Works in Trenton. This is the greatest event ever dedicated to ALL of the arts: performance and visual. It started on Saturday, June 18th at 3 pm... and lasted a full 24 hours until 3 pm on Sunday! (And believe me, the party got even better as the sun went down with body painting and djs playing house music to dance to through the wee hours of morning!)As a matter of fact, here are a couple of links to other articles written about this event.... http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2011/06/17/news/doc4dfb6a86cad01036885352.txt (lists the bands that played and summaries of the various events! The name of the piece I did was "Pollution Evolution")http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2011/06/19/entertainment/doc4dfe236ca4060605929329.txt (Check out the picture of my mermaid and 2-liter jellyfish hanging behind her!)
I highly suggest becomming a member of the Art Works group that sponsors this event. They have classes and events that support both art and the community. (Their website is http://www.artworkstrenton.org/)
Anyway, throughout the event I had countless people stop and stare, both at the beautiful mermaids adorned in fashions I created from upcycled material including juice pouches, bubble wrap, and caution tape, but to also look in awe at the multitude of fantastical sea creatures I created from plastic bottles, yogurt containers, and laundry detergent bottles. It was just my intention to have people stop and wonder, how did she do that? So here it is... a tutorial for "how I did it". Make your own Crab Nuggets from upcycled PET plastic containers and plastic bottle caps.
Supplies:
Plastic screw type plastic bottle caps
PET round plastic containers like yogurt, cool whip, tub of butter, sour cream, etc.
Scissors
Pen
Glue gun (and glue stick)
Cut the plastic container in half and remove the bottom "circle".
Trace around the plastic bottle cap on the inside curve of the container. The container will become the 6 legs and two crab claws for the crab.
Draw six triangles attached to the round body of the crab, three on either side, to form the legs. The legs should be drawn on the "east" and "west" side of the circles with the top of the container in the "north" (or upright) position. This will allow the crab to stand on its own legs once the body is cut out because of the curvature of the plastic container. Also draw the outline of two claws at the "top" of the circle. I always try to make the claws as big as possible within the size of the container being used. The length of the legs and the curvature of the plastic container being used will determine the height of the crab. The size of the plastic bottle cap will determine the overall size as the legs and claws should be drawn in proportion to the size of the bottle cap.
Cut out the crab legs and body from the plastic container. (HINT - Cut on the inside of the lines that were drawn as a guide to elimitate any pen marks from showing. Any remaining pen marks can be removed from the back with a q-tip and some nail polish.) 
The circular body should fit snugly inside the plastic bottle cap in order to have the appearance of the crab coming out of the shell (just the six legs and two claws should appear from the shell). You may need to trim the edges of the circular body or deepen the cuts between the legs in order to achieve the "perfect" fit. Using the glue gun, add a small line of hot glue the length of the bottle cap where the three legs will be attached of each side of the crab.
That's it. Your own little crab nugget! Now go forth and make a whole colony of crabs. Feel free to add eyes, glitter, paint... whatever your own creativity compels you. Here's a few more pictures to inspire you... 
