Clean and Scentsible

Wine Cork Memo Board

Anyone else wake up at 3:00am and suddenly remember all of the things they forgot to do? Why can I never remember during the day?  I decided that I needed a cute little place to jot down my to do list and came up with this:

I have been working on re-organizing my kitchen this month and it’s amazing how many items I have found for crafting! I did my cutting board menu holder last week and still have a few more projects in the works. Here’s what the cuttlery organizer looked like before:

Materials:
Wooden cutlery organizer
Wine corks. I used 6o for my board. Drink up that wine! {or head to your local U-brew}
Paint
Paper for the flower and backboard {mine is from Echo Park}.
Buttons
Tacks – the cheap, flat kind.
Glue – I used Quick Grip.
Letter Stickers or Vinyl

To Do:

Sorry I don’t have any pictures as I go. I kind of get into crafty mode and my fingers are all covered in glue and paint. Not so good for taking pictures!  Here’s a quick run down though…

  • Remove the 3 vertical dividers. With a little wiggling back and forth they just popped out. Make sure you keep one of them as it will be used later!
  • Paint the organizer and one of the vertical dividers black.  Sand the edges.
  • Take the vertical divider and cut it down so it fits horizontally in along the bottom edge of the organizer. Glue in place. This makes a nice little storage area to store pens and extra tacks. I also put some scrapbook paper on the back of the bottom storage area to add a little color. 
  • Add your title with letter stickers.
  • Get out your corks and glue them down for the cork board.
  • For the flower, I cut a 12″x1″ strip of paper. Fold it accordian style and glue the ends together so you end up with a circle. Once the glue is dry, you just kind of pop the center down and spread out the paper. Glue the center {I had to hold this for a few minutes}. I then cut a smaller circle, crinkled it up, inked the edges and sewed a button in the middle.
For the tacks, I just glued buttons on to the front of those flat tacks. I put the button on “backwards” so the curve of the button matched the curve of the tack. You’ll have to hold the button on for a few minutes or clamp so you get a nice solid hold.

Done. Too bad it wasn’t as much fun completing the to do list as it was to make the board!

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  23. Just popping in from Clean and Scentsible link party.. and I love this!

    What a cute cork board, I keep throwing things away and then see what I could have done with them.

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