Calling All Wine Corks

This great wine cork idea was floating around the Pinterest world last Spring.  We always save our wine corks and have used them in various ways - at our wedding for the seating card display, in candle hurricanes, cork boards and coasters to name a few.  I knew this project would take a while but would be so fun along the way (wink, wink)!

Kicking off this project was really quite simple.  Step one: Drink a bottle of wine (that's my kind of project!).  Step 2: Save your corks! After a several months we had quite an assorted collection of reds and whites... no judgement, please.

Step 3: Pick up some MDF board at your local Home Depot.  Using a pencil, trace out the letter of your desire.  Our last name begins with "S"... hence the "S".

Step 4: Conduct a small practice round to make sure your corks will look good within the size of your letter

Step 5: Using a jigsaw, carefully cut out your letter stencil.

Step 6: Begin glueing your corks onto the letter using a glue gun.  Tip: put the glue on the top side of the cork so the end stained with wine faces out.  The different shades of reds and pinks are so pretty.

Repeat Step 6 again and again and again...

OH MAN!!!  I ran out of corks!!!  Looks like we need to drink a few more bottles to finish the "S" - work... work... work......

I'm looking forward to hanging our "S" cork next to the bar in the living room.  If my calculations are correct, we need about 30 to 40 more corks.  Urrrmmm, that could take weeks months!  Stay tuned...  

Do any of you save your wine corks?  What creative things are you doing with them?

Update 10/31/12...