Sunday Crafting

August 4, 2013 - Sunday

By the time I woke up on Sunday, my dad had already scoped out the neighborhood yard sales and bought these two frames for $1 each. I think I mentioned this in another post recently, but I collected wine corks in Italy (although I didn't bring ALL of these corks back from Italy - some came from other people, some from craft stores, etc) and ever since I've been home, I have begged my dad to bring me to his Tech. Ed. classroom to help me put these corks together in a cork board. And then suddenly July came and went and it's August now. I think he thought it might be better just to buy some cheap frames instead of letting me go crazy in his school classroom with saws and stuff. Anyways, I went to Lowe's later with Mom and Grammy (we were really going to get vanilla ice cream at Hannaford but since Lowe's is right there, it was convenient). Mom went to ask if we could get a $2 paint sample of this red color that I picked out (it happened to be called "wine glass" which seemed appropriate) and then Grammy and I went to pick out some wood for the back of the frames. So pretty much I set up my work station in the garage and spent the rest of the afternoon running around the yard, trying to find Dad to ask him questions about where paintbrushes were and how to measure stuff. I definitely spent more time trying to track him down than I did working. The hardest part was to fit all of the corks into the frame perfectly because they aren't all the same size. So I completed one cork board and I'll just have to keep collecting to fill up the second one!

Sanding and cutting the frames

Painting stuff!

Fitting the corks into the frame (stressful)

The finished product

The painted frame is not really this brown - it's more red/magenta

My favorite one from Orvieto :)