Earring-A-Day 14: Wine Cork Studs

I think these earrings work well as a concept, and that my execution was just ok and didn't do it justice.

Apologies for the flash photo- it's a super nasty day out and all my non-flash pictures looked awful.

These are wine corks that I colored with sharpies and then carved shapes into. Stud backings were glued to the back. Ta da!

In a perfect world I wouldn't have had to color anything. The goal was to use corks from bottles of red wine, where the corks would've been naturally (and prettily) stained by the wine. Unfortunately the only other corks I had I used on Friday, and really, the color was far too pale to work:

I guess I could've bought a few bottles but I'm not really feeling having to go through that much wine right now. The final results of my improvised method weren't bad- maybe if I'd chosen easier shapes they would've turned out better?

Oh studs, you're the bane of my existence. Or, you know, the Sunday earring part of my existence.

Earring-a-Day 12: Wine Cork Earrings

Wine Corks are on the upper end of the trash spectrum, but I managed to leave work with both my iPod charging and my earrings supplies sitting in a drawer so yeah, it's good I got anything done haha.

Yes, that The Dread Pirate Rabbit in the background.

These are Pepperwood Grove corks- they have a decent but cheap Cab Sauvignon. I don't drink wine a ton, but when I do I want to be attacked by pepper and leather or drink, you know, a Reisling or something. Because those two flavors are so similar haha.

Anyway, I'm a big fan of the cork design- very mod and cool. My plan was originally to put head pins all the way through for support, but I couldn't get them to go through straight. So instead I just put a loop on the end of a bit of wire and stuck it in the top. It seems to be holding alright, but I'm not going to do a lot of walking or chair stacking with these on just in case. Once I get home I'll put some glue on to keep everything in place.

*Updated 8/13 to replace photo