Photo: JW Walthall of www.Austin.Eater.com My friend Jordan and I were sitting down to dinner one night at Ken's Sushi in Nashville and somehow or other, it suddenly dawned on us that a floating food truck might just be the coolest thing to happen to food since, well, the food truck!
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This was one of those "Dear Lord, why am I still working on this???" projects but damn, it's good looking. In fact, it's near impossible to look away. After it was finished I found myself simply staring at it for many a long length of time. The final product used 1,116 corks, many sticks of hot glue, measures about 5ft. wide by 3ft. tall and weighs almost 36lbs. Total cost was about $65, but that included a brand-new hot glue gun for about $25. The rest was for extra glue, paint, wood stain, and an extra piece of plywood. I didn't buy a single cork. (Note: These pictures don't do the board justice. Weebly seems to alter photos, so I apologize for them looking yellowish and dull.) The inspiration for this project actually came from my Aunt. You see, she has been collecting wine corks for, well, a long time and this past summer, she turned an old wall-mounted map into the base and frame for a cork board made out of the corks she had collected. I thought this was really neat, so I decided to do the same!
The first order of business was a little online research about wine cork boards. Of the hundreds of photos I saw on Google, I didn't find many that were particularly attractive. Most were very small and impractical looking and the workmanship wasn't there. Some people had cut their corks in half long-ways to double the surface area their corks would cover. Good idea in theory, but I thought this might cause problems when trying to pin things to the board because you might put a pin in a spot that had a limited amount of cork depth. A lot of boards had rows of corks that weren't straight or were cut to fit in a particular space. I knew I didn't want that either. I wanted a BIG, dramatic board that had plenty of space for photos, notes, etc. and doubled as a center piece or work of art. With these thoughts in mind, I got to work! Over new year's, I was in Savannah with my friend Melissa and we stopped in to Urban Outfitters for a bit. The coolest thing in the store (to me), besides all the gag gifts, were the stairs.
From what I can tell, they took some of those grates you find as part of the sidewalk and filled them with concrete. How cool is that? You could add some pigment to the concrete to match any particular decor you might want to have. Red concrete stairs would be pretty impressive... This is something that may or may not be in my future apartment or house. Heaviest stairs ever? A worthwhile project? Yes. Time consuming? Kinda. Will I do it again? Probably. This Christmas I chose to recover some used books I picked up at McKay's Bookstore in Nashville for a dear friend of mine. Certainly a personal gift as each book was specifically chosen for her. We are both big fans of Restoration Hardware and their canvas-covered books they have on display. I took a hint and chose to do the same, but actually glue the canvas to the books instead of simply wrapping the books for looks... Read on to see how I did it. I suppose it's fitting for my first post to be about why I even started this blog in the first place...
Well, I have two "craft" projects going on right now and it occurred to me that other people might like the results of what I'm doing and would want to know how to achieve the same. That got me thinking... why not just share what I learn? Going back even further, I'm one of those types of people who has always been interested in everything. Absolutely everything. I remember asking my dad when I was younger if flies sleep. The thought occurred to me as I watched a fly buzz around our dining room table (and no, this doesn't usually happen). How about majoring in French and Art and then electing to attend a seminar about photosynthetic solar cell research as part of my graduation-week programming? It's rare for me to walk out of a movie and not want to get involved with whatever the movie was about. How cool would it have been just to be in the studio when they were recording the score for Lord of the Rings? I remember playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and wanting to learn Russian because some of the characters in the game were Russian. I want to learn how to work on cars, get my pilots license, go to space, learn wilderness survival skills... I want to start companies, design websites, and meet influential people. Even the research my friends are doing by testing tension-resistance for artificial heart tissue is interesting. Sure, there are some things that are just inherently not that intriguing to me. I can't actually think of any off the top of my head, but I know they exist. I'll try to list a few when they come to me. Anyway, there's so much to know out there and it's all fascinating! So thank you for taking a moment to read my blog. I hope it can be of some use to you, and like I've said before, if you have a comment or an idea to share about something I've written, please post it in the "Comments" section below! Thanks again! |
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