Scott (for those of you that don't know), could be described as a wine connoisseur (this is a bit under stated perhaps), but anyways being a wino, you end up drinking a lot of wine, which results with accumulating a lot of corks! (we have a designated "wine area" in our new pantry- we're that serious about this pleasure!) He has for years apparently wanted to create trivets with these corks. I for a while have wanted to create a bulletin board for the kitchen out of corks.
Today, while at Pete's shop, we had him help us make a simple frame out of Luan we had and pine he had kickin' around that he was able to cut and plane to size. We then came home, I stained it quickly with some stain, found once again on the shelves here at the big house (thanks Doug!) for some contrast, and the project began....6 glue sticks, 2 first degree burns, and 272 corks later we have an awesome "bulletin board", one so pretty we probably will stick very little in it!
Although the wood & luan was free....Scott figured the bulletin board costs him/us....$4000+! Now That's A LOT of wine!!!!!
At least the wine corks are now out of bags & boxes (stored previously at both Pete's & his Mom & Doug's) so not only can we enjoy seeing the corks now- we created more recycled crafts!
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| In the beginning....It was just a board & frame! |
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| We learned what "jacobean" stain looked like after I found it on the workshop shelf....perfect! |
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| The "artist" at work! (& eating & drinking.....) |
Awesome!! How did you adhere the corks to the frame?
ReplyDeleteA very "steamy" hot glue gun! hence the first degree burn marks on my thumb this a.m.! lol! They are in there good too, we took a couple out and rearranged twice and we had to muscle them out!
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