Easy DIY Wine Cork Hot Pads...

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Those of you that know me – or follow along our blog know that I love wine. I usually keep all of my corks and display them in my kitchen and dining room or make crafts with them. Now, before you take me to a meeting you need to know that each week my Honey Bee and I go to our favorite neighborhood Italian restaurant. Our favorite servers gives me a bag of corks each time we visit. I am always grateful that at the end of our meal she presents me with my bag of treasures.

Some time ago I was browsing Pinterest and saw these super easy and functional hot pads made with wine corks. Unfortunately, I can’t find that feed. I am creating from memory how I think the hot pads were made and my apologies to the creator of this craft.

Now, keeping it real – this is usually what I place hot baking dishes and casseroles on:

Pretty sad, right? Time to get busy. I went to the Home Depot and bought some clamps. They were located on the same aisle as PVC pipe. They were very inexpensive – the medium size were $1.00 and the large size $1.50

Here is just a small sampling of my wine corks…

Let’s get started…

The first thing I did was loosen the clamp. I then began adding corks around the interior of the run, making sure that the corks were very close together.