If you’re anything like me, you tend to hoard things that look like they may be useful later: empty thread spools, glass jars, bottle caps, and those ubiquitous wine corks.
[Creative Commons photo by Claudio Matsuoka]
I’ve got a big bowl of corks in the kitchen that’s mocking me. They dare me to find a project to use them up. Well the joke’s on you, little corks! I didn’t just find one way to turn you into something new. I found ten.
- Make your next party fancy with wine cork place card holders! Just cut a small slit into each cork and slide the place card right in. Bonus points if the place cards are made from reused material, too. Maybe discarded cereal boxes?
- Glue slices of cork to the bottom of your flowerpots to keep them from scratching the floor or your deck and give any moisture a place to go!
- You can slice the cork into rounds that would work wonderfully as beads for a necklace or bracelet!
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I love the cork stamps idea! I’m going to try that.
We are considering making cork-place card holders for our wedding too ;).
I taught my brother in law how to mosaic last winter and he’s been making things with bottle caps, wine corks, and other recycled items ever since! Here’s his website if you are interested.
http://happyhourart.net/
oh cool, thanks! I’m thinking about doing a bottlecap roundup in the next couple of weeks!
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