Don’t Craft with a National Treasure! Do A Price Check Before You Make Recycled Art
When I sell record bowls at craft fairs, people tend to say lots of awesome things to me, and they also tend to say three annoying things: 1) Look, sweetie, this is a record! (to their child). 2) How exactly do you make this? 3) Oh, no! You ruined all those records!
Statement one is annoying because a) the kids being shown the record bowls are always like ten years old, and their response is always to just roll their eyes at their parent, because OF COURSE they’ve seen a record before, and b) if a kid had never seen a record before, well, a record bowl really doesn’t look a lot like one, ya know? Statement two is annoying because, as my partner pointed out to me, the people who try to get me to tell them how to make a record bowl NEVER buy one from me–they just want me to tell them how to make one for themselves. Do a Google search, friends.
Statement three, though…that’s only annoying because someone says it at every single craft fair, and I have to assure them that I have a record player of my own and I only craft with the vinyl that’s way too beat up to have another use. I’m pretty sure, though, that there are people in the world (teenagers who just found mom’s old record collection, I’m talking to you here) who WOULD ruin a perfectly good, and super-valuable, vinyl record just because they didn’t know better.
