Wine Cork(board)

BP = Before Pinterest

AP = After Pinterest

Now that we have that out of the way, I'd like to thank MCJ for introducing me to this love/loathe passion that has become my desire to create, cook, bake, organize, repurpose, and redesign virtually anything - biotic* or abiotic, that I can place my digits on.  If you have not heard of Pinterest by now, you have either been living under a very large rock - most likely a sedimentary one if you live in Tejas, or you have courageously resisted the digital cork board movement.  All of you are highly intelligent so it's likely the latter.

Speaking of cork boards, this is one of my first completed home projects and I'm kinda taking a shine to it:

JR provided me the necessary corks, many some of which I'm proud to know I am responsible for the separation from their former bottle partners.  Chest thump.  I began the project with a newly purchased hot glue gun but was promptly detoured back to Wal-Mart (more on my love/loathe relationship there, later) when the appliance miserably failed, resulting in a heaping hill of hot, gooey goo that never made it to the barrel exit.  Trial 2 consisted of pulling out the good ol tube of Tacky Glue.  I'm sad to report that the be-all-end-all craft glue of my childhood was a tacky (non)hot mess.  The gunk simply wasn't tacky enough.  Trial 3, and my ultimate success, came about through the use of a clear cement product found in just about all multi-purpose stores with four walls.  24 hours later, voila'!  Don't lean in too closely though or you'll see my less than sophisticated application.  Hey, at least it's clear cement.

Cheers!

*which includes decorating the dogs.