Fighting Boredom with Healthy Food + Creative Living
We signed up for a local organic farm CSA several months ago and hands down, it’s the best decision we have ever made. Not only do we get fresh organic fruits and vegetables do our door, but we also get a bouquet of flowers. Although…
This is a high quality bamboo cutting board! I received this board in exchange for an honest review. The bamboo cutting board has a groove channel on one side which is great for cutting juicy vegetables & fruits, as the juices will flow off to…
These awesome and very retro ‘sports glass’ binoculars are perfect for scoping birds or cute surfers out at the beach. Popular in the 60’s, these ‘sports glasses’ have a 2.5X magnification and fold up to fit nicely in a purse. Great for Palm Springs, Vintage…
Beautiful vintage beaded Easter ornaments! These ornaments were most likely created from ‘beaded kits’ from Walco (LeeWards and Sulyn were the other major bead kit companies of the era). During the Depression, beads were inexpensive and bead crafting became a popular pasttime. This was due…
Carrots are no longer orange. Different varieties have been around, but are now becoming easier to find in your local markets. Rainbow carrot mixes are often grown in California and aren’t much more in cost than the regular orange only variety. As my family and…
knew my daughter needed a solid breakfast today, as she has sports after school and I wanted her to start the day off right. It’s 5 am, so I look in the fridge to see what the game plan will be. Eggs, broccoli (lots! about…
Small Business Saturday may have passed, but it’s not too late to support small biz AND get a beautiful wreath handcrafted with Northwest evergreens. My Granstrom Evergreens wreaths arrived today via UPS. It started to rain, so I ran out to meet our UPS man…
At this year’s San Diego Bay Food + Wine event, there were several new standouts who brought their ‘A game’. I’ll cover these over the next week, but I simply must tell you all about one company in particular because I know everyone will be…
You’ll need:
A ridiculous amount of cork
A strong 2-1/2″ embroidery needle
Ribbon or embroidery thread (any color!) The thread or ribbon will be as long as you’d like your garland.
Paint if you would like to paint a few corks to disperse among the regular corks.
Putting the needle through a cork is a challenge. It’s funny because I could look at the wine maker’s name on the cork and say, “Hey, I remember this wine. It was expensive.” That expensive wine cork was typically very dense and super hard to get through. The cheaper wines usually had corks where the needle went through easily. So, in this case, cheap wine wins.
Put the threaded needle in the cork and then flip it over to put your weight on the outside edges of the cork . Force the bottom of the needle down on a hard surface (pointy side is up in the cork). Use a hard surface like a kitchen counter that won’t scratch – not your wood table! Be careful, you don’t want to impale yourself. This is not an activity that you want to be watching T.V., or get distracted. This is why cork garland making is not for kids either.
I do recommend putting the hole through as I did in the picture. If you try and go end-to-end, you’ll break your wrist. This project is not for the weak!
The end result is very cool and well worth the effort. Remember you only need to make enough garland to wrap around the visual parts of your Christmas tree. Why make garland for ‘behind the tree’. Right?
Alternative ways of linking:
If you really want end to end links, you could use metal eye-hooks. Screw an eye-hook in each end and then you can attached the metal loops with metal rings, ribbon, whatever. This is probably the easiest pay to make an end-to-end chain, however I didn’t want metal on mine.
