Your Own Cork Board

There are so many DIY craft ideas that you can do with cork. Here’s one of my cork projects.

I made my own cork board. What you’ll need is a glue gun, wine corks and ribbon.

Tip: I found out only “true” wine corks will work for this project and I used ones that were the same size. You can always cut your wine corks.

First step:

Cut a piece of ribbon to the length you want it. Then glue it to the wine cork (on the roll part-not the ends)

Second step: glue the first wine cork to another wine cork (again glue on the roll part not on the ends).
Keep gluing each wine cork to each other in whatever length you choose.

Third step:
Let it dry for about 5 minutes.

Fourth step (optional):
Hang the cork board on the wall. I put it in my hallway and used pins to put photos on it.

Here’s mine:

DIY-Crafts

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Chalkboard Paint

Chalkboard Paint has become one of my favorite new crafting tools.

There are so many things that you can do with it. Here are just a few:

1. Paint Baking Pans

2. Paint Kitchen Jars

3. Paint Bathroom Jars

4. Paint inside or outside of pantries

5. Paint a wall in the kid’s playroom or basement

6. Coffee Mugs

7. Wine Bottles

8. Flower Pots

9. Placemats

10. Your Fridge

The ones I personally have tried are the coffee mugs, wine bottles, kitchen pantry door, bathroom jars and kitchen jars. The paint only takes about an hour to dry, you may need to put on a 2nd coat. But it’s super easy and all you need is the chalkboard paint and a paint brush.

I bought the chalkboard paint at Micheal’s for about $6 and the brush for $1.00 I also had a 30% off coupon (you can get these in the mail if you subscribe to their emails).

Here are some pictures of my DIY Chalkboard Projects!

Make sure you share some of yours!

My Hello!

Starting your very own blog is nerve racking! You don’t know if you’ll succeed or fail at this. I personally have a web design and an SEO background and I am still nervous. I would like to start off my blog by telling you why I started this blog, what to expect from me and what I expect from myself.

First and foremost, I started to this blog to share all of my thoughts, tips and words for everyone to see. My focus for my blog is for all of the wonderful mommies out there. This includes fashion for moms, couponing, organizing, being a working mom, military families, DIY-crafts, kids and fitness. These are the things that I have focused my life on. I have learned some great things about these specific topics. Now, I am not claiming to be the best expert on all of these matters. However, I do my research and I am still learning what there is to know. I don’t think any one person can know everything about everything.

Secondly, there are certain things that you can expect from me and my blog. The whole purpose of my blog is to share my knowledge and my constant learning experiences. I always found it beneficial to gather multiple opinions over one subject or find out numerous methods to do something. Everyone is different and chooses different paths. Each parent raises their children differently. I put the peanut butter on my sandwich before the jelly. What you can expect from my blog is to always be honest, to never pretend that I know everything and to always be whole-hearted in what I write.

Last,

I expect from myself to always do my research, always continue to learn and to put 100% effort into this blog. I made a commitment to my future fans and readers and I plan on keeping that commitment.

Happy Reading!