Trivets and TV

We’ll be honest. This week’s Monday night energy was far more focused on the Bachelorette finale (part one!) than it was on our Make It Happen Monday project. But, because we knew this would be the case ahead of time, we selected a craft that would be cute and useful, but not rocket science to complete while simultaneously watching “the most dramatic Bachelorette finale ever.”  

In June, the Girls Team put our wine cork collection to good use and made these awesome Wine Cork Strips. Although the strips were successful, we barely made a dent in the amount of wine corks we have hanging around. So this week, we pulled out our hot glue guns and got to work on Wine Cork Trivets.

The supplies for this project were simple: wine corks and a hot glue gun. I brought over a cork trivet I currently use, thinking we might need that as a base but we never did.

My mom was much more organized than I was in picking her corks. She wanted them all to be the same height so the trivet was an even platform for dishes and pots. I was too focused on the TV show, but I did make sure to glue my corks together so the wine-dyed side was facing up for some color.

Basically, all you need to do is hot glue the corks together until you’ve achieved the size and shape of your desired trivet. We had anticipated our trivets taking a hexagonal shape, but it’s a lot more difficult to manage the shape than you would think! Ultimately, we were inspired by Desiree and her search for love on the Bachelorette and decided to make our trivets heart shaped.

 

 

Overlooking a few burnt fingers, making the Wine Cork Trivets was easy and painless. It was the perfect project to entertain us during the Bachelorette finale, and a great use of wine corks. We probably spent about 1.5 hours on this project. The Girls Team loves a useful craft, and we’ll be using these the next time we tackle a hot recipe on a Monday night!