Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Re-purposing

Isn't everybody doing this now?

It's easy to think of reasons to do it ranging from the environmental to the creative.

Why wouldn't you do it?

Those reasons range from being lazy to too busy.

Results of a "wine cork art" Internet search can lead you to some very ambitious re-purposers' very ambitious projects.

Portraits, letters, pieces of art, globes, picture frames, bird houses, wreaths ...

Maybe I'm a little bit too lazy and a little bit too busy with my wine gardening - otherwise known as a passive re-purposer.

But even passive re-purposers can create interesting objects.

This is one of my favorites.
A big empty jar, a little paint, a few (hundred) corks and voila — re-purposed art for a bar or kitchen.

Consider a collection of interesting bottles filled with wine corks to keep the big red wine jug company.
A crate and an old label can give a wine bottle an official winery look.

Fill it with corks and it looks even more official. 


Corks can be added to bottles of all shapes and sizes. 
  


Another reason to re-purpose: It gives you something else to contemplate as you're enjoying a nice glass of wine on a nice summer evening.

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