Do-It-Yourself New Year Round-up!

I am sorry I haven't been updating my blog for a while but I felt obliged to post at least something to round-up this exciting year.

Great winter holidays DIY projects: enjoy!

Plastic Cups Snowman

This snowman will never melt and it will serve as the holiday decoration for your home throughout many years!

Recycle Gift Cards into Christmas Tree Ornament

I am sure it is fun to create too! And depending on your gift card providers, can be various colors!

Plastic Bottle Candle Holder

These will come in handy for any winter holiday including st Valintine's day and New Year:

And don't forget these CD candle holders as well!

Drinking Straw Light Fixture

I am pretty sure this one can be used as the holiday decoration!

CD Christmas Tree

OK, it is a bit late now but why not save the page for the next year?

CD Photo Frame

A great last-minute February 14 gift idea!

CD Disco Ball

Can also be turned into awesome holiday decor!

LED Lights in a Bottle

Beautiful decor idea for the holidays!

Ping-Pong Balls into Diffused Party Lights

Wow!

Light Bulb Christmas Tree

Made of used light bulbs this tree looks awesome and is absolutely reusable and environment-friendly!

I hope you feel inspired! Happy Holidays and see you in 2011!

Solar Powered CD-Case Bricks!

This DIY project is harder to create than our usual discovery but I was so much amazed by its pure coolness that I couldn't help sharing it.

Look how awesome those solar powered CD-Case LED bricks look at night: you are definitely likely to want to create those for your garden or lawn...

They incorporate ... things to mess around with: LEDs, Solar panels, hot glue, man it's all there and they look great to boot!

CD Decor

Wondering what to do with the pile of unloved CDs that won't play any more?

Grab a couple of dozens of them and create a cool piece of decor: it is something in the middle between a CD picture and a CD sculpture but looks like fun!

Related CD inspiration:

• CD Room Divider
• CD Photo Frame
• CD Candle Holder

CD Room Divider

We've seen already a cool CD curtain that looks great reflecting the day light. Here's one more, pretty much similar way to re-use old CDs: a room divider.

And here's also a video to get you even more inspired:

CD Christmas Tree

Oh, I am so late with this one!

But on the plus side, that's a good reason to collect old CDs for the whole year to have enough of them for this year's Christmas tree!

Go spread the idea!

CD Shower Curtain Holders

This looks both useful and nice. I am sure it will be a good fit for almost any bathroom interior.

Besides, that's a great way to take advantage of old CDs which is always good (we love recycling!)

CD Dumbbell

OK, so w have seen plenty of ideas om how to recycle old CDs but this is something I am not sure about:

A CD dumbbell? How much does it weight?

CD Lamp

I have already shared a lamp where stack of CDs were used as a lamp base. But this one is much more impressive!

In it, CDs are a glow - they create some beautiful plastic light effect when having a bulb inside:

CD Photo Frame

Here's last-minute idea for your loved one New Year gift: cut your photo into a circle, attach it to CD with double face tape. Now, cover the back of the CD with sticky back felt. Use tacky glue to secure it into a slot in base.

CD Disco Ball

This one is truly a New Year project. Here's an inspiration and a challenge for you: throw a 80s-style party for this New Year's Eve.

This CD disco ball will be a great fit. Just grab your (maybe also your friends') old unloved CDs, cut them to pieces and glue around a sphere.

CD Candle Holder

This cool candle holders will take you no more than a few seconds to create: take a couple of old CDs, put them in a microwave oven for some time (no more than a couple of seconds) and add nice candles.

This tip can come quite in handy for the holidays: easy and fun!

Stack of CDs as a Lamp Base

Need some more geeky design elements in your interior or just can't seem to find a way to take advantage of old CDs?

Here's a cool idea to turn your used CD into a cool modern design element.

CD Spindle Lamp

Well, if you don't feel like using a CD spindle as a tissue paper holder and dispenser, here's a better way to reuse it: create a CD spindle lamp!

Here's a detailed instruction which is really easy to follow!

CD Spindles Tissue Paper Holder and Dispenser

Many ideas are so simple and yet so genius that you can't help getting admire and inspired: creating a tissue paper dispenser form a CD spindle is just an idea like that: no time or effort needed - just enjoy it!

DIY IPhone Dock (Made of CDs)

I am sure you have plenty of used / unwanted CDs at home you don't throw away for no reason.

Here's a way to take advantage of them: a cool iPhone dock: easy and stylish!