Cork Ceiling

First of all,

I am going to apologize for these pictures

right up front.

I am not sure why,

but they are not that good.

Please bear with me,

I am sorry for all blurry,

grainy, fuzzy pics!

This brainstorm started on the day I had to take my printer to Pittsburgh.

I stopped at the

Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

I cannot babble on about how much I love that place!

I saw the bassinet filled with wine corks,

so many possibilities,

however,

it takes my mind a little while to process

those possibilities.

Somewhere about

Fox Chapel,

where Route 28 gets a little hairy

and

lanes are switching

and

I should have been paying more attention

it came to me!

This ceiling!

Clearly those corks would be perfect here.

Clearly!

I could cut them in half!

I could hot glue!

It would look so cool!

Why is that tractor trailer honking it's horn at me?

I really need to pay more attention when I drive.

OK folks,

I am just going to admit.

This has looked like this for way longer than it should have.

In another brainstorm moment,

several months ago,

I had decided that the kitchen cupboards here

needed to come down.

(Just so you know, that was a sitting on the couch moment,

not a driving moment)

and

unbelievably,

JWS agreed to do just that

and the

cupboards came down!

Many months

and

plans to cover it later...

I now had a plan!

250 corks should cover it

according to my math.

Really,

I used to be good at math.

I seriously miscalculated this

and

right here is where I ran out.

Did I mention that JWS even allowed me to run the

band saw

to cut them in half?

Seriously folks,

the only power tool I am normally allowed to have

is the

hot glue gun

and

I have scars from that!

I struggle with the mixer,

try to avoid the food processor

and

don't even own an electric knife!

And just for the record...

I have sewn fingers into the sewing machine more than once.

Anyway,

Saturday morning,

had JWS

back at the

PCCR

(Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse)

for another 300 corks

after my trip on

Thursday

for 250 corks

and you see that little space in the bottom

left hand corner of the pic?

Still not enough corks.

Just so you know...

I am accepting donations for those....

just saying.

I don't have another trip to Pittsburgh in the next week.

And the nuts and bolts of the project?

Mastic.

I was going to use hot glue

and

JWS

informed me that I was not

and bought

the Mastic and that cute little scraper thing.

The whole project

took under three hours

and

really was not that messy!

Total cost?

Under $75

And back to the

Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

Gracelyn, Garren and Shawnee

went with me on Thursday.

Gracelyn filled a bag with gems

as she calls them,

beads that she carefully sorted through to get a bag.

Garren found a lot of entertainment in an old typewriter.

(I have one of those in the hoard that I will be digging out for the kids)

Shawnee found some embroidery floss

and

I found the start of another project.

More on that later.