I love champagne!

  

A few weeks ago I saw this over at Quick Fix mama

I had to make them mine!

I wanted to use twine instead of wire.

If you like her version better you can just pop over to her site for that tutorial

So I whipped some up during Masie's nap

Ohh, how I love nap time!

Heres How:

All you need is 

2 champagne corks,

 A few book pages, I used 4

some hot glue and a gun

some twine

a little wire

and a few buttons

First I cut my pages in half lengthwise, then I cut all four layers at once into paper fringe

this does not have to be exact, I just followed the lines on the page

I put little dots of hot glue one corner of each layer to hold them together while I wrapped them around the cork. I also put hot glue on the body of the cork to help secure the pages.

After the paper fringe was all glued on I took some jute twine and wrapped it around 5 or 6 times

adding little dots of hot glue along the way to keep the twine from getting loose

I made little wire loops and poked them into the tops of the corks so I could

tie each one of the tassels to the ends of a length of twine.

I decided to add a few vintage buttons to the tops of the tassels,

but this is where a gal could really get creative.

buttons

rhinestones

the possibilities are endless!

Last, I took a pencil and sorta curled out the paper fringe.

What a great idea huh? Thanks Quick Fix Mama!

her's where they are going to live for now,

 as long as little fingers don't mess with them too much!