design*sponge had some type of DIY contest and the results are in. The categories included furniture, product jewelry, graphic/paper and other. You can check out the winner page, as well as a bunch of photos on their Flickr site. I like the vinyl bowls the best, I’ll need to make some of these.

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I made bowls out of records this christmas. It was pretty tricky, actually. I recommend boiling a lot of water, as much as you can, and heating the record, then forming it between two nesting bowls, facing upward, so the boiling water continues to heat them. I had glass pyrex bowls that worked pretty well for that.
Oh, and I should mention, here’s a picture.
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