City Paper - Crafty Bastards Blog » cassette tapes http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/craftybastards Crafty Bastards Blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Upcycle: Cassette Tapes! http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/craftybastards/2008/07/09/upcycle-cassette-tapes/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/craftybastards/2008/07/09/upcycle-cassette-tapes/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:18:00 +0000 tina seamonster http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/craftybastards/?p=912 I have no nostalgia for listening to cassette tapes. All that rewinding. Fast forwarding, rewinding. But I do have an old picnic basket way back in my closet full of them. Mix tapes, Cindy Lauper, long lost lo-fi projects and me doing a radio show at age 6. What to do with all these tapes?

Librarian Barbarian in Glasgow, Scotland, makes unwanted tapes into the cutest little change purses ($20). These would be even more awesome with a strap to turn them into wristlets.

This one has a cute little strap, making it perfect for a small camera:

Here, Kate Black turns an old tape into a notebook ($20):

And this rad necklace ($155) from Goblingblinggo has a tape as it’s focal point.

Tina Seamonster blogs her life and craft at I Like Seamonsters.com.

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