Sometimes I have the feeling I’m talking to myself. With this blog I mean. I ask questions and pour my heart out and – more important – tell you jokes and nothing! Nothing. Well, there’s the occasional comment that makes my day ever time. I especially love when you challenge me. Like this one day when Elsbeth asked me on Facebook if I know what she could do with old CDs.

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I myself have old CDs lying around and I wrecked my brain to come up with something that I liked. So when I came up with these geometric mobile I only made one to see if I really liked it. To be honest: it takes some time to make it but it was so worth it!

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So I made more and put them up like in the picture above. Unfortunately I couldn’t really catch the reflections as good as it looks in real life. I guess you have to take my word for this.

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What you need:

  • old CDs
  • a cutter
  • a cutting board
  • this template printed on paper
  • glue
  • thread and wooden sticks

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First print the template and cut out 1 triangle of it. Arrange it on the CD, make sure to put them next to each other so you don’t have to make too many cuts.

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Cut the triangles out of the CD.

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Cut another template and stick it together. Put it either on a stick or hang it on a thread.

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Stick the CD triangles on top with the shiny side to the outside. Voilá!

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One day I was sitting on my desk and suddenly there was this beautiful lash of rainbow light coming my way. Upon investigating I found out that the upcycled CD geometric mobile made that happen. It was so pretty, I had to stop what I did and just watch it for a while.

To be honest: on this colder and getting-dark-early days we need all the light we can get, right?

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So if you want to do something good for me, please leave me a comment. Either here or on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter. Anywhere. Everywhere. That would be really great. Just sayin’.

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Now. Carry on!