When cleaning up lately, I found a pile of old CDs.
Do you also keep your old CDs though not knowing what to do with them?
Zero waste & 1 R of the 5 Rs: Reuse!
The five zero waste principles (according to Bea Johnson, the “mother” of zero waste lifestyle movement) are:
- Refuse
- Reduce
- Reuse
- Recycle
- Rot
I read lately in a book about cleaning (NOT from Marie Kondo!): “Before giving something away find a way to reuse it, make something beautiful and/or useful with it.”
This made sense to me and finally motivated me to create something with my CDs.
Tote bag “head over heels”
I found a colorful tote bag in a vintage shop ages ago and never used it. But now her time has come!
The making-of
CDs are quite easy to attach with string or yarn on cloth due to the hole in the center.
Do you like the cool pattern I created with the string? I do and I suppose there are still many pattern possibilities to discover. Fortunately I still have CDs left, so stay tuned.
The rainbow mirror effect is really mesmerizing!
More bags
- Here you find another tutorial for tote bags made from old curtains.
- And here a tutorial for messenger bag “inner peace” (CD reuse)
