Cork Wreath
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Peaceful Bend Windery turned corks into a charming holiday wreath. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Cork Wreath
Oh, heavens, I was about to make “wreaths’ plural and realized it could take a long time, or a lot of wine, to have enough corks to make this cork wreath. Luckily living in mid-Missouri where we have a number of excellent wineries, we have easy access to the corks. The wine, too.
The project would involve collecting a number of wine corks, which would mean visiting wineries and selecting wines one likes all four seasons. Then drinking it. To get the cork, of course. Or you could enlist friends to go with you so they would participate in the wine cork collecting. Unless they were also making their own wine cork wreaths.
I have a number of wine corks I have saved - somewhere, reminders of lovely meals with friends at wineries such as Peaceful Bend and Meramec Vineyards. I tend to use my corks as stoppers for my beekeeping smoker, which sometimes get lost in my garden.
Now I will have to decide which is more important, collecting corks for my wreath or putting out the fire in my smoker.
Decisions, decisions.
I was told the corks were hot glued onto a wreath frame. Since they are so lightweight, it is easy to do and to hang. In this example they used a wide ribbon tied to the back so that the wreath could be displayed under a wall light fixture.
The red bow was pre-made and came off a gift basket. Nice repurposing there!
A wide ribbon attached to the back makes it easier to hang. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
I suspect I may end up making a teeny tiny one for the next year. The fun part will be in collecting the wine corks!
Charlotte
