I keep thinking of ways to make what I have better! I think I am done improving my first items.
So I have this collection of outdated/unusable/unwanted CDs. I think CDs are pretty, and I always had issue with throwing them away on that merit alone. Really though. Who in America doesn't have an overabundance of useless stuff? So, my solution is, "Make it Usable Again". YAY!
The quandary is "How?"... I looked online and found all kinds of stuff I could do.
People are covering them with fabric and make coasters- but that just effectively eliminated the whole reason I couldn't bring myself to throw the CD out in the first place. The entire awesomeness of a CD's visual appearance is the rainbowy, shiny, holographic, prism effect!
There was this awesome disco ball idea I wanted to try SO BAD... But then I realized, there are only two people in the world who thinks that is a cool enough idea to actually own and hang in a house would be me and the person who actually did that and posted a picture of it online (maybe 3 if you read this and say "I would SO DO THAT!").
There is also this thing that people do that includes a tuna can, a CD, an oven, and a tea light, but I don't think my small house could handle the smell. Melting CDs are noxious.
There are people breaking up CDs and using them to make jewelry, but I want to do something that hasn't been done yet. It was important to me to do something different, for a few reasons. Jewelry is everywhere anyways.
I like the idea of sun-catchers made of CDs. It really captures the reason we hypnotize ourselves with all of the pretty colors in the first place... But hanging naked CDs in trees or windows seems a little lazy to me. I needed to find a way to make mine different.
TA DAAA!
Upcycled/repurposed CD suncatchers.
I still have to settle on a price per piece.
They take a couple hours a piece to make, but I am hoping that as I make more, I can cut the time down. It is pretty time consuming when I am engraving designs onto every available centimeter of space on one though. Inking them can be time consuming too. Amazingly, the less design engraved on a CD the more time it takes to get the ink to do what I want it to. So between engraving and inking, each one takes about the same amount of time when all is said and done.
I have 4 more left to ink, then I need to back them and string them with some pretty glass beaded strings. I will be done with that tonight. I don't know when I will have them listed. I suppose that will be when I decide upon a conscionable price.
I guess that's it for now.
