DIY Wine Cork Hot Pads

This is one of the easiest projects that we have ever done! It's quick, easy and low budget - our favorite! We created hot pads for the kitchen using wine corks that were free to us via our server from our favorite neighborhood Italian restaurant.
Here's what we did…we gathered our wine corks. You will need approximately 22-32 corks depending on the size of hot pad that you create.
We went to our local big box hardware and purchased two clamps - one medium and one large. These clamps are located where the PVC pipe is.
The first thing we did was loosen the clamp. We then began adding corks around the interior of the ring, making sure that the corks were very close together. We kept adding wine corks until the ring was full.
We then lightly tightened the clamp to the ring to secure the corks into place.
As an added measure of securing the corks in place, we fired up the hot glue gun. We added just a small dot hot glue between all of the corks.
Once this was complete, we slid the clamp up to the middle of the corks and tightened it into place.
And that's it folks. These DIY wine cork hot pads have been in our kitchens for a year now. They are perfect to withstand heat and they keep hot pans and casseroles about an inch about the countertop so that heat isn't sitting directly on the surface.
Now I guess I need to make dinner…or drink some wine!
2 Bees in a Pod - Vicki and Jennifer
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