Unexpected Variety in Cork Christmas Trees

How do you imagine a cork  tree would look? If you were going to make one, what construction method would you use?

In 2006 I posted a photo of a cork Christmas tree that was made by gluing wine corks together into a smooth cone and attaching small ornaments.

I recently received an elaborate cork Christmas tree uses various sized wine corks. The corks were drilled to allow a dowel to be placed through the center and wires were inserted into corks to create branches. This one is complete with lights, grape cluster ornaments and an angel tree topper. Neat!

Another reader chose to create wine cork palm trees — creative and fun.

The trees will be shown in the next issue of Make Mine Wine which will come out in November.

In the meantime, let me know how you have — or would — construct a cork tree.

Cheers!

Barbara Rasko, Publisher, Make Mine Wine

Did You Save Wine Corks? Use Them Now and Enter our Create-A-Cork Tree Contest.

Be creative with cork and enter our Create-A-Cork Tree contest. You can create a cork tree with wine corks or if your favorite wine is opened with a screw cap, you can use craft cork.

Submit a photo digitally along with the category (cork or craft cork), your name, city and state to makeminewine@mchsi.com by August 30, 2009. The top winner will receive a free 1-year subscription to Make Mine Wine magazine.

Have fun and let your crafty, artsy talent shine! The top three winners will appear in our Holiday 2009 issue.

Cheers!

Barbara Rasko

Publisher, Make Mine Wine

Create-A-Cork-Tree Contest

On December 11, 2006 I posted a picture of a wine cork Christmas tree on this blog. To date, 491 people have taken at look at that cork Christmas tree.

No doubt there are a lot of other ways to make good looking cork Christmas trees … so we launched a contest in the Winter issue of Make Mine Wine. The only rule is that the tree must be made of cork — either wine corks or craft cork.

Gather your wine club members, your family or your friends (or sneak away and make your own), create a tree. Enter the contest by submitting a digital photo to makeminewine@mchsi.com by August 30, 2009. As you can see, we’re giving you plenty of time to be creative.

There are two categories — Create-A-Cork Tree with wine corks and Create-A-Cork Tree with craft cork.

The top winners in each category will receive a free, 1-year subscription to Make Mine Wine and pictures of the winning cork trees appear in the Holiday 2009 issue. Other cool entries will be posted to this blog.

So, have fun and Create-A-Cork Tree!

Cheers!

Barbara Rasko

Publisher,

Make Mine Wine

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