DIY Easy Wine Bottle Gnome

These white dusters reminded me of a gnome beard. Is that what you see too? Or maybe a Santa beard? Well, I’ve been wanting to make a gnome for a while, so now was as good a time as any to use these and give it a try. I made mine with an empty bottle just to see if it worked. It did work and afterwards realized that if you used a new, unopened bottle they would make the perfect gift for a friend, neighbor, as a hostess gift or for any wine lover you may know (but actually you could use any kind of booze) . These are SO simple to make and they came out SO cute.

I used an old pair of stockings from a Halloween costume but another idea would be to get a pair of Christmas socks. Just insert the bottle into the sock, then you’ve got a 2 in 1 gift. A bottle of wine (or two) and socks too.

I didn’t have Christmas socks so I used these stockings instead and cut a long enough piece to cover the wine bottle, then used a rubber band to tighten it on top.

I bought a roll of red felt from Dollar Tree to make the hats. I simply rolled up a piece and used my glue gun to glue it together, then trimmed the excess material off.

Before you put the hat on you need to glue the beard on. I glued mine just a bit under the rubber band or enough where the hat would cover the top part of the beard. I used my glue gun for this.

Lastly I just slipped the hat right over the bottle top and glued a puff ball to the beard as the nose, and one to the top of the hat. No need to glue the hat on if you are giving this as a gift. That way the recipient can just take the hat off to open the bottle.

I sort of the like the hat standing up straight, but you could flop it over too.

You can see what I did with the rest of the items in the surprise box but clicking the link below.