Top 100 Tutorials of 2010. 101 Crafty Gifts. Whatimade.com. Sugar Bee Crafts: sewing, recipes, crafts, photo tips, and more! New Life for Old CDs – Crafting a Green World. This is a guest post by Becky Haas, who is an amateur crafter/environmentalist who also tries to make a living as a professional musician. You can also find her at the craft blog Sew and So. I have a confession to make…I’m addicted to music. I guess it comes naturally, since that’s what I spend a lot of my time doing. So I always love it when I stumble across a craft project that uses music-related materials, like Kelly Rand’s recent article on things to do with old cassette tapes. By this point, I don’t have too many old tapes lying around, but what I do have is a lot of CDs–most of which I still listen to.
But we all have those CDs that are too scratched up to play properly, or came free in the mail with unwanted software, or have those songs that seriously tempt you to throw the disc out the window if you hear them just one more time, if it wouldn’t be considered littering. My first thought was jewelry, and it turns out that it’s pretty easy to transform an old CD into that.