Before pictures...

So, I recently got started with a project due to an awesome challenge by the Upcyclers Team on Etsy.  Here's a summary of the challenge: "Starting May 2012, we will host a creative challenge to inspire upcycling ideas among the team!  Each month a selected shop (Judge) will choose a common upcycled medium, like a tin can, an old magazine, etc), and participants respond with photographed ideas of what they upcycled that medium into!"  So, the challenge this month was: "a stereo/radio/boombox/speaker/cdplayer."

FUN!  My initial idea was to take an old discarded discman CD player and create some sort of card/picture frame that has something decorative on the outside and something else when it gets opened up.  Well, I didn't find a discman and wasn't sure how to execute this idea anyway.  However, I did find an old walkman cassette player and had an even more exciting idea.  But it's a surprise!  Feel free to guess in the comments!  Also feel free to steal my discman idea.

Here are some before pictures of my walkman...

Not technically a walkman.  A portable cassette player/recorder.

It opens.

Someone added a sticker of Jordan from NKOTB.  Awesome.

Someone also added the year and their name - "1989 Nichelle."