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How to Decorate With Used CDs

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Creating crafts from CDS is a great way to get rid of all of those shiny free disks you get in the mail. It’s also a great way to reduce, reuse and recycle those tunes and programs that you know you will never lay your eyes on again.

Perhaps one of the most famous CD crafts project tat exists is a sleeveless knee length cocktail shift, created entirely from CD’s and small gold jewelry hooks. Talk about a great way to create a futuristic outfit for New Year’s.

CD disks look really attractive in any project that has a dangling element to it. Some of the kinds of cd crafts that you can make include Christmas decorations and dangling door hangers. You could even make a chandelier out of it.

All you need to do to personalize a CD is cut an image out of a newspaper (or find one on the Internet that suits your theme or purposes) and glue it or decoupage it over the original record label. For instance if you were making a Christmas decoration, you would use an image such as a snowflake, snowman or Christmas tree. You can use hearts for Valentine’s days and pumpkins for dangling Halloween crafts. These types of CD projects can be dangled from a front door to celebrate the season.

Another way to conceal the label is to simply glue two used CDS together so that the labels of both face inwards. Some individuals hang these CD projects (called “flashers”) in trees to discourage birds and squirrels from plundering a garden.

CD crafts are easily turned into objects that can hang or “dangle” by attaching a looped ten-inch piece of ribbon to the CD with glue. Industrious types might want to try drilling holes into CDs to create attractive hanging mobiles that hang from ribbons or threads.
Decoupage suits the creation of these types CD crafts, especially if you want to try making your very own homemade shiny coaster set. You can also personalize these durable protective table coasters by pasting images over the label of the CD. For instance, an image of the U.S. flag pasted into the center of the coaster would suit a party celebrating Independence Day.

Used CDs also make great candleholders. Glue a candle onto the shiny side of a CD. Surround it with a wreath made of fake or real flowers or branches. You can also decorate the CD surface by securing beads to it with glue. The reason that candle CD crafts are so pretty is that the shiny surface of the acts as a mirror that doubly reflects the glow of the candle.

Whether you are looking to entertain your kids or simply looking for a way to recycle used discs, the Internet is a great source of inspiration for ideas about using these disks to make geometric works of art of all kinds.

How to Decorate With Feng Shui For Halloween

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It might seem a little weird to practice Feng Shui on Halloween but the upshot is that this ancient Asian art of object placement fits perfectly to this holiday. That is because Feng Shui is about safety and Halloween is one of these nights where you want to be conscious of that. Both the holiday and Feng Shui are also about metaphysics. Both are about harnessing energies and using them to one’s own advantage. In Feng Shui these energies must be positive. On Halloween the veil between this world and the next is said to be very thin so there is a possibility of attracting both evil and good energies. When you apply the rules of Feng Shui to holiday of Halloween they work very well.

First of all Feng Shui is about the clearing away of clutter. This is definitely a must if you have little Trick or Treaters visiting. To keep energy positive around your home on Halloween night make sure that your walk and front porch are completely clear of clutter. Get rid of things like hoses, rakes or anything that little feet could trip over. Sweep away leaves and plant debris as well. Remember that many of these little kids are in a lot of danger of tripping over their costumes in the first place!

Yet another Feng Shui must have element for attracting good energy is to make sure that your walk and home are well lit. This might seem like a strange request on such a “dark” holiday but the reality is that it is quite crucial for the safety of children and adults as well. There are all kinds of novelty “Christmas string” style lights that you can put up on your porch and in the front yard. You can also decorate your yard with lit hand-carved pumpkins or even better yet, get electric pumpkins. Electric versions are the safest of all as they reduce the chance of someone’s costume accidentally catching on

If you want to have more abundance and a freer circulation of money in your life then you can do a little bit of a prosperity ritual by handing out chocolate covered coins to children who come to the door. This symbolizes money being multiplied and coming back to you. You could also do the same thing with real money. Try handing out shiny copper coins in red envelopes as a version of the famous “Red Envelope Ritual” which dictates that everything that you send out into the Universe in red envelopes comes back to you nine times.

Part of Feng Shui is about being in sync with the holidays and the symbols of the Hallways. Black cats are lucky in China for their nine lives so decorating your window with them is a nice idea.