Greetings everyone. I'm here once again to share my most recent invention with everyone. This week, I was rearranging a room in the house that has been out of use for a while and I came across a bag filled with cassettes (CD's). The bag was supposed to be disposed of as most of those CD's have probably spoiled and we do not have a CD player at home anymore. The thought of discarding so many CDs didn't sit right with me so I opted to make something useful out of the CDs instead of just throwing them away.
The first thing that came to mind was a room decor using the mosaic method. Mosaic is basically the art of making a design using irregular patterns of coloured stones, broken bottles, broken glasses and the likes. So I used broken cassettes. Genius right??
Materials
- 3 Cassettes (CD's)
- Carton
- Black paint
- A pair of scissors
- Gum
- A protractor and pencil
- Calender/newspaper
- Yarn or thread
Procedure
The very first thing I did was to boil water for the cassettes. The hot water helped me to remove the coloured customization in the CD. The water has to be really hot so that the customization comes off easily.
After taking off the colours from the cassette, I made a flower in three simple steps using a newspaper. The newspaper measured 24cm by 24cm, giving a square.With the flower made from the newspaper, I carved out the same flower on a carton.
I went ahead to spray my carton black but you can use any colour of your choice. Black is most preferable here because it enhances the lustre of the cassettes.
When the paint dried up, I glued a full cassette to the centre of the flower.
I went on to chop the cassettes into tiny bits. The size of the chopped cassette depends on you as you may decide to make them bigger to save time. Chopping off these tiny bits with a pair of scissors took so long. It felt like I was on it for ages and when I was done, a sigh of relief escaped 😅.
With my gum, I carefully placed each tiny bit on the petals of my flower. This was where the mosaic came to play. Piece by piece, I kept on till I completed it. After that, I made a little circle, painted it black and placed it at the centre of the cassette. Then again, I used the tiny bits to decorate the little black circle.
With my flower out of the way, I went ahead to make the drop downs(I do not know the official name for it. If you do, I would love to hear it:). The drop downs are made of three circles. I carved out two different sizes of circles from the cassette for the first and second circles . For the last circle, I used a protractor on a carton to get a perfect and bigger circle.
I painted the last circle with black paint and then went ahead to add the tiny bits of cassettes that had remained. For the first and second sizes of circle, they didn't really come out like a circle so I had to smoothen them with a hot iron. The smoothing didn't still make them look like a regular circle; I honestly do not know what shapes they are but again, every mistake is a design;)
After I got all my circles ready, I attached all of them on a black yarn and then placed them at the back of the initial flower. I also added a little yarn at the top to serve as a holder.
With that, I had completed my home decor. This would be hung on the walls of the parlour as all we have in our parlour are paintings and no actual decor.
So what do you think? At first glance, would you know that this was made from old cassettes? Thank you so much for your time.
All images used above belong to me except stated otherwise
With love, wongi ✨
Wow, this is some good amount of creativity. Amazing stuff you've done here. I wonder where the inspiration came from.
!PIZZA
Oh dear, thank you very much . The inspiration comes and goes from time to time.
Jeez... This is really quite impressive.
How did you come up with this?
Then how did you get to pull it off.... Quite amazing because even if I dreamt about this, it will end in dreams 😂😂😂.
I don't know what else to say but this was really an amazing work
@dreemerforlife #hhym #marathon @dreemport
this got me😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. There are some of my designs that end in my dreams too but this one came to life.
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for coming around dearest #dreemer.
You're welcome
Wow, your creativity is really inspiring wongi dear ❤️. Perhaps I should give you a title?, expert in reclining 😂😂
.. you really utilised the material instead of wasting them . Now see the end result, so nice 👍
Never never😍
Well done my dear
#Dreemerforlife
Thank you very much Nkem dear😊😊. I'm glad it came out this way.
Thank you for stopping by ✨
This looks beautiful and... expensive😅. It kind of resembles a dream catcher.
If I were to see this in your house, I'd probably think you bought it. The cut out bits of cassettes don't even look like cassettes, with the way they glimmer in the light, they look like real gem stones.
How did you come up with such a creative design?
Well done!
Zitaalovvve. I'm glad I was able take away the CD effect from the CDs and make them look like gems😊.
The ideas to make them are always spontaneous. I'm glad you like it and thanks for coming around ✨
Wooh...I can't stop looking at it, this is something you did go to the market or store to get and it would cost thousands of naira, and here you are being talented and creatively making it. It's really fancy gives the room this aesthetic taste. You did really beautiful here.... great work girlfriend, lot of love🥰😍😍🦋🦋
Oh lovely, I'm glad you like it this much😊.
Thank you for coming around.
!luv !lady
Miss smarty pants always showing up each day with new amazing ideas. I love this one. A happy weekend to you perfect cousssssssssss<3
Miss smarty pants. I think it should be miss smarty shorts for now 😂.
Thanks for coming around lovely wildflower😊
😂😂😂😂
Always a pleasure ☺️
I have never worked with discs or CDs, I think the result looks great. It is laborious as far as I can see. You made a nice ornament with this material.
Thanks for sharing.
Yes it was a bit labourous but fun to make. Thank you for coming around dear @creacioneslelys 😊
Oh, yes! I second you after seeing the outcome. 🌟😊
It's really beautiful, Wongi, and you have really upped your DIY game this time. As always, very unpredictable, and I see you are now becoming a master of your trades. Awesome!😊🌺
This just made my morning 😊😊. Thank you Humbe dearest.
I realized that it's a step by step game and one has to keep an open mind in order to play the game😅.
I appreciate your stopping by 😊❣️
Yep and you're definitely mastering the process😊.
Have an awesome weekend Wongi!🌹
I hope I would be seeing more of you this weekend😊. I look forward to reading your WE post. Have an amazing weekend too.
I will try!😊
Thank You!
A pleasure.
Chief of Upcycling. Omo this girl ehn. Your own creativity used to shock me. Sha Sha I know that it's boredom that caused this one.😂
!luv this Best.❤️
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I wish it was boredom😂
I'm glad you like it😊
Wow! So very creative of you Wongi, I also have lots of these cds at home and don't know what to do with them, throwing them away felt wasteful for me too, I guess I just got an idea. Thanks for sharing.
!diy
I'm glad I was able to inspire you a bit. Thank you for coming around Glory dear✨
👏👏👏
This is astonishing!
Love this creativity
I'm inspired
Great Work
#dreemerforlife #dreemport
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for coming around.
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wow that looks great, you have made the best use of it. Good job 👍👏
I'm glad you think so. Thank you so very much.
My talented @wongi
Good work here, came out beautiful and you're right, one would find it hard to believe the source
Hehe. I like the new name😊. Thank you so very much.
que lindo trabajo utilizando la tecnica del reciclaje :)
Muchas gracias querida. 😊
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