Tuesday, May 26, 2015

OH Dear, just put a cork in it!

Hubby and I became wine imbibers late in life for while raising our sons we were teetotalers, all those years until 9/11. By then they were were basically grown men anyway and we were in our fifties and I had read that wine at night was healthful for people of that age and so we chose to become wine drinkers, until I became sooo fat and realized sadly just last year that wine can add more calories to my evening meals than I really needed and so last year I chose to stop and Hubby came along for the ride, his choice. 

Over those many years of enjoying the grape we did have a hobby of keeping those that were corked their corks and they ended up in many mayonnaise jars, some were not, yes we even drank twist top ones, shocker, ha. And over these last few years the craft of making usable items with the corks has showed up at nearly all craft shows. But we made our first project years ago while still drinking the white and red and pink fermented dry or sweet or a little of either of those or none of either vine ripened liquids, a trivet with a thrift shop picture frame back with aluminum, and filled with corks in a herring bone pattern, many think it looks like artwork. When our new furniture arrived this weekend we realized we had a slight dilemma with the cup holders for our coffee mugs. The handles were sticking out as they should but made them unable to sit in the recessed holders. It was my suggestion to utilize some more of our excessive stash of corks in those mayonnaise jars kept in the garage on shelves full of them and this was a perfect project for their use. And so it was Hubby's background in engineering that kicked in once again and it was he who thought up how to solve the problem with wooden disks that could be put in and out easily topped off with the right height of corks. This time he enlisted our plastic ones, since their height was slightly higher than the natural cork corks, got that. I also noticed that although we had plenty of room for my 10" laptop to sit in between our seats when it was charging it would get a little too warm for my comfort zone to leave it there unattended. And so Hubby took its dimensions too and created a very large trivet of sorts out of wood he conformed to a frame-like piece with his special cutting and sanding equipment and hot glued real corks into it, and yes he has become better than me with "my" hot glue gun.
 

 Here you can even see Hubby made little feet for the large laptop trivet, he had sliced two in half for that.
 My coffee cup is crooked due to how I put it in, Hubby's is sitting straighter although he had to shim his cup trivet, due to his handle being lower.These are in our spare chairs seating for photography purposes; I did not want to disturb Hubby he had a busy day with grocery shopping and lawn mowing, what a guy!


Regular glasses for cold beverages fit quite well.

On that note of a freebie concept for you to copy if you so desire, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS special occasions and holidays we still will have some wine, just not nightly, okey dokey.

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