Homemade is the way forward; always is and always will be. It's the way forward because it's cheaper then buying in retail or online but also it looks good and you can make it to suit you. Today for you savaging students, are these real cool bowls you can make from your flat / student house and takes minutes. 

Go get yourself to a charity shop and buy some old records vinyls. They come in all different sizes so depending how big you want them, you chose. But you can get them in most charity shops and they are really cheap, like a £1 or something like that.  So here's some ideas of what you can do with melting Vinyl records and a short video on how to do it.