I must admit that I did not come up with this idea, but I'm very glad I found it. It turns out that if you put an old vinyl record into the oven on very low heat for a few minutes, it becomes super floppy. (the instructable I read very aptly said "it will feel like a fruit roll-up") After it comes out of the oven, it smells bad and you can put it in a mixing bowl or drape it over something. I did both of those and got essentially the same result. The pretty cool feature of this project is that when you don't like how the bowls turn out, you can just put it back in the oven and its back to fruit roll-up.
They are now home to my Pea plants and some of my lettuce plants, I hope. The lettuce is looking pretty sad since I've transplanted it from it's dixie cup birth place. Anyways, you can find these bowls for 30 bucks on Etsy or you can find an antique store with a pile of free records out front and make your own.
When I was in HS, I discovered that you can put CD's over a fire and soften them enough to roll or stretch or warp them in pretty cool ways... I imagine you could do the same thing in the oven. So, y'know, if using vinyl is too hipster for you, or you wanna join the 90's...
ReplyDeleteOoo! That's exciting! Thanks for bringing me up with the times :)
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