Monday, December 1, 1986
Supplement to the Daily Nebraskan
Page 9
Christmas gifts you make yourself
A couple of Christmas's ago, my
lovely girlfriend sat down and pooled
her creative resources. She came up
with one of my favorite gifts to dat e.
I'm not sure whether she invented it
or just happened to find it in some
Craig Anton
crazy arts and crafts magazine, but
it doesn't matter, it's a great practi
cal gift and I'm sure it would look
wonderful in your home.
The gift is a bulletin cork-board,
or a cork-bulletin board. Make that
a bulletin board with cork on it.
Don't get me wrong though, this is
no ordinary cork board. Oh no, this
board has style.
Here's how you make one:
Measure a square piece of quarter
inch plywood, preferably 2' by 3', or
whatever dimension you want. Buy
or borrow a bottle of Elmers Carpen
ter Glue, but don't eat any. Now
comes the fun part. Collect a few
hundred wine corks, you know, the
corks that come out of bottles. Just
go to a local Lincoln or surrounding
city restaurant and ask them to save
all the corks that come out of the
wine bottles. Make sure they serve
wine with corked bottles, twist off
caps just won't do.
The rest is quite self explanatory.
Arrange the corks in your own fashion.
Maybe use Christmas as a theme.
Arrange the corks in the shape of a
Christmas tree or a Menorah or
maybe a big piece of coal. After
you've found your desired shape;
making sure that the corks fill
upmost of the plywood, perman
ently affix the corks to the plywood
with the carpenter glue. Keep in
mind here that an adult should be
present and that your work space
should be properly ventilated and
supplied with a cool glass of lemo
nade or iced tea. Remember, narcot
ics and Elmer's glue don't mix!
Now find some grommets to put
on the back of the plywood, hang it
up and you've got yourself a crafty
little cork board. And look at all the
money you've saved.
Here's another gift to make for
your friends or for yourself. Spend a
day thrift shopping in the local star
vation armies. Find an old wooden
shutter that usually borders the
outside of a home window. Sand or
paint the shutter to your own speci
fications. Now type, print or write
your most commonly-made phone
numbers down on strips of paper
that will lay onto each individual
shutter blade. After you've filled
one side, flip the blades over and
put more numbers on the other side.
Now comes the grommet part
again, just put one or two on the
back side allowing plenty of space
for the blades to flip up or down.
Now hang it on a wall near the
phone, or right beside your new cork
board.
Isn't gift-making fun and easy?
Now go into any department store
and look for these gifts. They won't
be there. If they are you can sure
that the price tag reads $49.99, plus
tax.
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