Ever since moving to Philadelphia in 2001, I’ve been saving corks from wine bottles. They seemed useful, and although I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them, I was sure I’d come up with something. While visiting a friend many many years ago, I noticed that he had a lovely wreath made from wine corks similar to this one, so for a while I assumed I would make a nice wreath once I collected enough corks.
The only problem was that once I had accumulated enough corks to make a wreath, I realized that I didn’t really want or need a wreath. Wall space is at a premium in my house between my artwork and friends’ artwork hanging on the walls, and I’m not really the kind of person who has wreaths hanging in her house year-round anyway. So there I was, with a big bag of wine corks and no plan for what to do with them.