Top Ten Reuses for Wine Corks.
Wine corks aren’t just for keeping your wine tasty and fresh. You can reuse wine corks in almost every room of the house. A cork board in your kitchen, a coaster in your living room, a pin cushion in your sewing studio, and perhaps a
Here are ten ideas on how to reuse a wine cork!
Start a fire. Wikihow.com suggests that you keep old corks in a sealed jar filled with alcohol. When you are ready to light a fire, place a cork or two underneath your kindling and newspaper and light them with a match.
Cushion your pins. Wine corks make an easy pin cushion. The next time you finish that bottle of wine keep the cork near your sewing machine for your pins.
Let people know their place. Corks make super cute and cheap place markers for a dinner party and wedding reception. Just slice part of one of the sides of the cork to create a flat bottom. On the opposite side slice a small sliver into the cork to hold your name card.
Here is a great sample from Savvy Housekeeping
Keep your pictures straight. Keep your frames balanced when you hang them on the wall. Just slice two small pieces from a wine cork (the same size) and glue them to the left and right bottom corners of your photo frames.
Sow a seed. Keep your green thumb clean and have even sowing holes and the same time. The next time you are sowing seeds in the garden use a wine cork to create your small holes. If you want to be faster attach several wine corks to a board spaced out according to your planting preferences. Just flip the board over and press the corks lightly into the ground; lift and pop your seeds in all of your new holes.
Make a Picture Pretty. Wine corks make wonderful photo backgrounds. I have a tutorial on this site; check it out HERE.
The Obvious Cork Board. A cork board seems to be an awesome suggestion, but I had to share this cool version of one. I will have to make one when I collect enough corks. Thanks CraftingaGreenWorld.com
Stamps! Carve shapes from your wine cork to make unique and personlized stamps.
Give a bird a home. Another great idea from WikiHow.com is to reuse old wine corks to build a bird house. The birds will love their new hip home.
Carry them with you. My all time FAVORITE! Make a wine cork purse. I have to figure out how to do this. And when I do I you will be the first to know. I love it! Check out an example on www.alittlebit2.com
How to Reuse a Wine Cork.
I was looking around my studio the other day and saw a broken photo frame (no glass) and a bunch of wine corks and thought they would make a great pairing.
Here is how to reuse wine corks to make a multi-use cork board.
1. Place your photo frame with no glass, front side up. Fill the inside of the frame with wine corks.
2. When you have figured out the appropriate layout, use a hot glue gun to secure your wine corks inside the photo frame.
3. Now you have a multi-use cork board!
Use it as a trivet…..
Use it as a desktop photo holder….
Use it as a desktop note to self holder….
Use it as a wall photo holder….
Anything else you can do with a bunch of old reused wine corks?
Let me know!
Quick Tip: Wine Corks
If you are planning on having a dinner party or planning a wedding anytime soon, start saving your wine corks now!
They make great place card holders.
CasaSugar has a great DIY instructional for wine cork place card holders.
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