My craft this week was a sphere made of corks as an accent piece in the bookshelf. {Something that I saw on Pinterest and just thought was fun.} Now that I basically know how to make them, I can craft smaller ones as Christmas ornaments. I could tie them onto gifts, even.
Heaven knows I have enough corks! These are just about half of the ones I have collected. I gave a whole slew of them to The Girl, too.
Some of these had corkscrew holes and wine stains - they make pretty vase fillers, though, so I will keep them. Generally I recycle the ones that are not real cork.
I bought a styrofoam ball at Dollar Tree and using a pencil I poked a hole with it so I could hold onto it while I painted the whole thing. This is just regular ole craft acrylic paint - I think the color was called caramel. A cork got glued right over that hole.
I used hot glue and tried to position the corks as close as possible, but the gaps are pretty well-disguised by the paint. I chose to glue wine stain side down, but I may do it the other way around for Christmas ornaments.
I've been trying to keep the clutter down to a minimum - more and more I think that simple is best. Crafting now and again is fun and a break from the mundane, not to mention we have a great time collecting those corks!
Gina
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