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I have decided that I am going to start collecting corks and bottles for my kitchen.
Right now, I am just collecting ones that capture my fancy. If I like the color, or the design - into the collection it goes!
Is there anyone else that collects these items?
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I hesitate to admit that I have TONS and tons of wine corks. I am a wine writer and I was saving them all for projects, over the past many years, and never found any projects for them. So I am tempted to just list them on CraigsList and have someone come take them all!
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My kitchen window is full of cobalt blue bottles. I also have a few suncatchers but mostly old bottles, several that are noxema, some bromoseltzer and a few wine bottles my mom saved for me.
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"Is there anyone else that collects these items?"
Do you mena anywhere or the folks here? If you mean anywhere, bottle collecting is a huge hobby.
Cork collecting is probably not so big, but I am sure there are likely some.
You posted this in the "Wine" section of Bella. Do you mean to collect only wine bottles?
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Lisa, this month's edition of Body & Soul had an article on green things for under $25. One of the things was to make trivets with wine corks--just put them together in a round shape and then secure with a clamp and then cut the end of the clamp off. Looked cool & easy.
I went & got the magazine. For a medium trivet, they used 50 corks about the same size & stood them upright in a tight circle & secured with an 8 to 10 inch metal hose clamp. (from the plumbing section of the hardware store--you'd recognize it once you see it. You might need metal clippers to cut the end of the clamp off, but I think you can bend it & break it off, too. If you want to take a peek, it's page 103 in the April issue.
There are some other cute ideas, too--I love the one on the cover with the tiny greenish bottles as a vase grouping. I have some little wine bottles I can do that with.
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I keep all my corks in a vase in the kitchen bay window. When it gets full i put them in a reused quart ziplock and label it "crafts" with a sharpie, then bring it to goodwill.
Last edited by Jilly; 03/17/08 05:15 PM.
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These two "crafty" ideas above are the kinds of things that are done by cork hoarders as opposed to collectors.
Nothing wrong with it, I hoard cigar bands.
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Deb - it's not that I don't know what to do with the corks  I have tons of crafts I've done - http://www.wineintro.com/products/gifts/ The thing is I lately just don't have the time or interest in doing it. No new projects have struck my fancy. There's only so many cork trivets I personally need  So I'd rather give them to someone else who does want to use them.
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A friend of mine makes really cool wreaths with wine corks. I think she just hot glues them to a wreath, covering it completely, and then adds a few grapes and curly twigs. They come out really nice and make great gifts for wine lovers.
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we used to have a "cork board" at home that was done with all the wine corks and champagne corks from the weddings in my family. I loved it. It was a connection to all my family and was cherished. I wish I could have got it when my parents passed but one of my siblings did.
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