Duct Tape Life Applications

Alright. Here is the duct tape. All of the uses of duct tape I've found useful, as well as the duct tape products I sell. Enjoy!

Duct Tape Life Application #1: Corsages and Boutonnieres.  
'Nuff Said.

This is a picture taken among the fiasco of taking a cornucopia of pictures prior to prom this May. I made this duct tape corsage and boutonniere pair as a custom design for my friend who wanted to create her own hipster prom experience. Thus I made for her a sunflower cactus corsage and sunflower-cactus being eaten by a venus fly trap boutonniere. I welcome any further crazy ideas for duct tape creations.

Duct Tape Life Application #2: Water Bottle Repair.

My mom was taking care of my cousin's rats for a week, and one of them, toward the end of her stay, got particularly enthusiastic in her daily activities, and proceeded to knock down and chew through her water bottle, and another subsequent substitute water bottle, thereby turning her wood-shaving Sahara into a drift-wood swamp. The solution? Duct tape. The newer of the chewed up water bottles was repaired with, and affixed to its rightful place with duct tape. And the rat didn't try to make her boggy dreams a reality again. So either she wasn't strong enough to tear through it, or she got a little distracted by the loopy fumes of duct tape... I'll let you decide.

Duct Tape Life Application #3: Fake Foliage


 I made this pine cone as a gift for a teacher. Yeah, a bit odd for a teacher gift, but I have my reasons.




DTLA # 4-6: The Moral of the Story: Always Bring Duct Tape

When I went to Italy on a school trip, I packed lightly. I brought several pairs of jeans, several shirts, a small journal, money, etc. I had all the usual essentials for traveling anywhere, let alone abroad. But, being the Duct Tape fanatic that I am, I brought with me a roll of hot pink duct tape. It was a last-minute decision, but the best idea.

Though without scissors, the first night in my hotel room, while my roommates where grunting and agonizing over the lack of Internet access and shoddy phone situation, I pulled out my roll of hot pink tape and made myself a new wallet, simply due to the currency in my pockets. Euros are quite a different shape and size compared to American dollars, as you probably know, and thus I needed some way to carry them efficiently. I was rather adverse to paying for a Venician mask with money out of the small tan envelope that carried my money to Italy.

Instead I made a hot pink wallet. (However, I forgot that Euros aren't all the same size, and had to expand it a bit since I had measured the tape with a five Euro bill. Nonetheless, it worked marvelously.) In addition to that, I recalled my dad's change holder-- a circular piece of leather that folds in on itself so you can hold coins and retrieve them easily-- and I made my own version: a square of hot pink tape, that when folded, could hold about five Euros in change, so I wouldn't have to worry about change falling or "falling" out of my pockets. I probably got some funny look from street vendors and shop owners when I paid for my souvenirs, but hey, at least they were judging me for me.


So that's my Duct Tape Life Application #4: Foreign Currency Wallet

But it wouldn't be the moral of the story if I had just used that roll of tape once. While we were at dinner one night, I was looking at my camera, and couldn't figure out why the memory card cover wouldn't click shut. Upon further inspection, I realized it had somehow suffered a minor plastic loss, and the mechanism to help it close was gone. And thus we have:

Duct Tape Life Application #5: Camera Repair

I slapped a piece of tape over the reluctant plastic and it held wonderfully for the rest of the trip. And is still functioning.


And finally:

Duct Tape Life Application #6: New Outfit On a Roll

One day in Florence when we had some down time in our hotel rooms, I whipped out mah duct tape and started playing. (Yeah, that's what I do when I get bored: play with duct tape). The result was a tastefully large bow which I wore in my hair, along with a mini one that I wore on my belt-loop. It brightened that cold day.
And that, right there ^ in my pocket, is a chopstick (just so no one makes any sketchy conclusions).

As I said, the Moral of the Story is "Always Bring Duct Tape."


Duct Tape Life Application #7: Purse Revitalizer

Since it is summer, I decided to switch purses and use the purse I had taken out of usage last fall due to its bright colors and beachy look. However, this purse still had a bunch of stuff from last summer in it, as well as random bits of dust and flotch and whatnot. To remove the sand from my handbag, I used some duct tape to prevent my purse from being a sandy snow globe. And voila! The purse is back.