MOM Craft!

I got my craftiness (and cuteness) from my Mommy! She made this wine cork wreath the other day as a gift. It's pretty easy, and a good use for all of our corks!

Cost: Around $5 if you already have the corks!

Difficulty: Medium, only because it involves a drill

You'll Need:

Corks (about 22 for a full wreath, this one has about 12)

A drill with a tiny drill bit

Floral Wire

Small jingle bells (ours were a little bit too big)

Scissors or wire cutters

Ribbon to hang it at the end!

Step 1:

Drill a hole on each side of your corks. 2 on top, and 2 on bottom that MATCH UP with each other. Do all of them before you start to make the wreath.



(Oooh she used the fancy corks!)

 Step 2:
Start stringing the corks onto the floral wire at the TOP.

Put a jingle bell in between each cork as you go.

**Then string the bottoms together with another piece of wire. This will create your circle!**

Tie the wires together at the end to finish of the circle. Then, add a pretty ribbon so you can hang it up!

If my mom can do it, you can do it!! Good job, mommy!

Wine Cork Cork Board

what you'll need: wine corks- and lots of them, something to glue your wine corks to-I used cork tiles, hot glue

cost: inluding all the wine, lots and lots and lots. Not including the wine $10.
difficulty level: easy


step one: Drink a lot of wine. Not all at once, please. I've been collecting these for a very long time with the help of everyone I know including Kayleigh's mom who worked at a wine shop for awhile. I still have a whole lot let too :)


step two: lay all your corks out so you can make sure you like your pattern. For those of you thinking "Really Katie? You're glueing corks to cork board?" I say "Yea man, I'm glueing corks to cork tiles because they are super cheap. So....yea." You can also use a picture frame but I like these because you can cut them if you want and they are light and easy to hang. I'll be using those sticky scoth things to hang mine up so I don't have to use nails.

step three: Hot glue your corks down


repeat!!!

Get creative with it. Next I'm going to do a circle cork board next and then another square so I can hang them all together-pictures for that will come as soon as I go get more hot glue sticks.