Making Vinyl Record Bowls

The hubby, the puppy, and I had dinner at my parents' house tonight. After dinner, we got to talking about White Elephant Christmas Party Gift Exchanges and somehow got talking about making those melted record bowls in the oven. Mom made one out of a Sesame Street record she randomly had hanging on the wall...

...and then she was hooked. So the menfolk stayed home with the dogs while Mom and I went out to the local Goodwill to find more vinyl to creatively maim.

We found lots of Carpenters (which I found funny because Mom loves the Carpenters...and I hate them). We also got some Barry Manilow...making sure only to pick out albums that had yellow tags (this week, yellow tagged items are 50% off) since Goodwill has overpriced their old records. They used to be 25 cents, now they're $1.99. Goodwill Industries have gone all corporate and overpriced. It's a THRIFT store for goodness sake! One record we found still had the original price tag, and it was only 77 cents when it was new!...(yay for inflation). But Mom and I had a lot of fun. I think part of our fun was due to the fact that I used to work at this particular Goodwill (as did my brother), and I know the old ins and outs of the store...plus I remember the good old days when it felt like a family, before it got all cold and corporate.

Plus, we would see funny things like this...

Can anyone tell me which one of this things is not like the others?...the gargoyle (that I wish I'd bought for my garden) randomly amongst all the Christmas stuff.

I found a pair of turquoise Old Navy courderoy pants that fit nicely, and bought them along with a Goodwill reusable shopping bag to give to my brother for Christmas as an inside joke. Then we went home and had fun with heat and vinyl...