Old CDs that you would normally throw away can be recycled into chic jewelry. Before you throw them away, why not try to make them into a trendy necklace by cutting them into different shapes and attaching each piece on a chain. You can actually make a lot of different kinds of items, but for this tutorial, I will make a necklace.
Materials:
Old CDs
Scissors
Pliers
Jewelry Making Supplies (Chain, Jump rings, Lobsters or clasps)
Scissors
Pliers
Jewelry Making Supplies (Chain, Jump rings, Lobsters or clasps)
Procedures:
1. Using a pair of scissors, cut the CDs into the shapes you want. I used tear, leaf and rectangle shapes in this tutorial.
1. Using a pair of scissors, cut the CDs into the shapes you want. I used tear, leaf and rectangle shapes in this tutorial.
2. Drill a hole on each piece you made using a sharpened object or a drimmel tool. Be careful on drilling a hole since it can cause an accident.
3. Cut a necklace chain for about 2 feet. Attach a lobster or clasp at one end of the chain.
4. Most of the work on this necklace is with jump rings. Start attaching each piece to the chain using a jump ring. Open jump rings by twisting the open ends away from each other using a pliers. You can start at the center and add at each side going up. By this way, you can estimate the volume of the necklace. Now, close the ring by bringing the ends back together.
5. Continue adding the pieces randomly along each side of the center until you fill half of the chain and reached the desired volume.
6. Now, you're done! It is pretty amazing that your old CDs can be transformed into delicate looking glass jewelry. It really looks trendy and expensive but it is actually made from recycled materials. You can now use your recycled CD necklace in your everyday fashion. And what's good about this tutorial is that you save money and help our nature.
If you have good ideas for recycling and crafts and want to share it here, let me know by commenting below. You can also give me an ART CHALLENGE by telling me the materials to use and the artwork you want me to do. :)
My tutorial is all about saving money and helping our nature. In addition for the tips on saving, here are the tools the price-conscious usually choose.
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Nowadays, if you're a mindless spender, you're guilty - yes, guilty of not allowing your mind to explore ways to save your resources, given the general state of the economy and the sheer number of people going hungry. Besides, even if you do have tons of money and unless you have a golden goose that actually lays golden eggs for a pet, if you don't know how to manage your expenses, there's always the likelihood of you going bankrupt one day.
Being price-conscious doesn’t have to be painful, that is, if you know what you’re looking for and where to find them. That said, consider the following online tools:
1. PickyDomains.com
So now you've got the perfect idea for a website, and all you need is the perfect domain. And then, with millions and millions of TLDs (top-level domains) already registered, you discover belatedly that the domain you've finally come up with after a long, sleepless night of brainstorming has already been registered. Since you're one not to be easily disheartened by hindrances, you try again, and again, and again, until you realize you can't take it anymore. When you finally force yourself to look at the mirror, you're shocked to find hideous dark circles framing your eyes. Branding agency? You shake your head ruefully. You know that branding agencies are way out of your league. They can cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.
PickyDomains.com is an online naming service that taps into the power of the crowd to come up with relevant, catchy and easy-to-remember names, domains and slogans. PickyDomains.com has a stable population of over 50,000 registered contributors. To start receiving suggestions from this diverse group of people from across the globe, simply register as a client, make the required $50 downpayment for a name or domain, or $75 for a slogan, and specify your naming parameters. These parameters will be considered when the contributors start pitching suggestions. And here's something I know you just won’t simply ignore: If none of the suggestions catches your fancy, you get your money back.
2. Bitrix24.com
Imagine yourself the head honcho of a company. You've got employees working for you day in, day out. But like old machinery, they're all on manual transmission, no adequate tools to automate their daily activities. (And you're sure it's 2012, not 1912.) And then, you wonder, why are you paying them so much for very little work? You definitely have the right intentions, but you're also looking in the wrong direction. Productivity in a company entails providing employees with the right tools to do their jobs right in a timely manner. And then, you hear about CRMs and corporate intranets. Your spirits soar, only to be deflated once again when you hear how much these high-tech tools cost.
Bitrix24.com is a corporate intranet solution that comes with a free and fully functional CRM system, free real-time streaming, free calendar and activity planner, free sales funnel and a number of other awesome features. What more, Bitrix24.com utilizes a cloud-based model, meaning, it can be accessed anywhere via a browser or smartphone without having to install anything. For companies employing 12 people or less, the package is absolutely free of charge. For companies with more than 12 employees, unlimited number of users is priced at $99 per month.
3. JetRadar.com
You're pressed for time. You need to get to a certain part of the country fast, and you know that air travel is still the fastest way to go. You go to several different price-comparison websites and check what they have to offer. Okay, the deals are probably cheap, but not cheap enough to fit into your budget, especially since this trip is a surprise. You search airline sites next, and you discover that the airfare deals individual airlines offer are sometimes way cheaper. You search some more, and some more, and some more. And then, you hear a voice inside your head scream, "There's got to be a better way than this!"
JetRadar.com is a search engine platform that carefully sifts through more than 700 individual airline sites, hundreds and hundreds of flight and ticketing sites and makes the data available for just about anyone to use, all in a matter of seconds, dramatically reducing the time and effort it takes to find the cheapest and best airfare deal there is. In a nutshell, what JetRadar.com aspires to become is the ultimate one-stop airfare address on the Web.
