Got Two Minutes?

Just a quick little DIY project for you today since Coral and I are still not feeling better. Ok, this project will only take two minutes, I promise. We are going to be making record bowls.

Kinda funky eh?

Andrew has been collecting records for a while now, so we have a ton of them laying around. A couple of weeks ago, when he was gone on a business trip, I was thinking about a way to make use for them. We don't have a record player, so we cant listen to them. There just sitting here....hmm I could decorate with them! So I did a little research, and sure enough, you can melt records very easily. All it took was two minutes, and my record bowls were finished!

Ok, so lets start this. First things first, lets turn that oven on (I turned mine on to about 250 degrees). You don't want the oven to hot, or the records will melt like grilled cheese, and I can only imagine how hard that would be to clean up.
                      Next we need a pan, and an oven safe bowl.

          Ok, go ahead and put the record right on top of the bowl, and put the whole thing into the oven.

Don't go anywhere! Make sure you keep checking in on your new bowl. These records melt very quickly. After about two minutes, the record will have melted over the bowl perfectly. If you want to play around with the shape a little bit, use oven mitts and hold the melted record in your hands until is has hardened (this happens very quickly).

 And there you have it! I just let mine sit on the bowl until it hardened, and this is the shape I got. I did a couple and thought it might be kind of neat to put on the wall (since they have sort of a flower looking shape to them), however I never did get around to doing that.

Two minutes, thats all it takes. Now go make some!