Cork Ornaments

Hello everyone! Today I am here with a cute DIY using some wine/liquor bottle corks that I acquired from my mother. I liked these in particular as they had distinct shapes:

I started off by drilling a small hole in the tops of all of my corks. I did not go all the way through, but just wanted to make a small indent that I could later use for some kind of hanging hardware as the intention was for these to be ornaments.

I then used some acrylic craft paint directly onto the cork. For the more bulbous corks, I had the vision of them being little mushrooms, so I painted the round top red and the base white. The less round ones I decided to make into little snowman heads with hats, so I painted the tops black and the bottoms white as well. 

Once the mushroom corks were dry, I used the end of a paintbrush to dab on some white dots of paint to give them the classic red mushroom look.

For the snowmen, I did a dot of black and then a smaller dot of white on the faces to give them some eyes.

For the snowmen, I also painted the pointy tips of some wooden sticks that I had cut orange to be their three-dimensional noses. When it was time to glue on the noses, I scratched away the paint in the area I was going to glue to ensure maximum adhesion and then attached the noses using some strong multipurpose glue.

I also gave all of the ornaments a coat of clear sealer once the paint had dried. Using the same glue I had used to attach the snowman noses, I filled the holes that I had drilled earlier so they were completely full of glue. I then took some thin twine and cut lengths of it, folded it in half and stuck the folded ended into the hole as far as I could. The glue then dried around the twine and left me with some long strings that I could tie off.

Once I tie these off, they will be ready to go! These were so easy to make, and I think they are a great use of corks. I have acquired some additional corks since I finished these out and can't wait to come up with some new ornament ideas!

What do you guys think about these ornaments? Let me know in the comments below!

 - Rebecca

P.S. Today's photo on the homepage is from Pexels user Isabella Mendes:
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