Magnetic Wine Cork Planters

Mar 262012
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This lat­est cre­ation has been made by a mod­ern day Martha, my sis­ter, Colleen. Well, she’s a lot more hip than her, but you get the idea.

It all started when she gave a friend of ours a bot­tle of wine for their 25th wed­ding anniver­sary. She wanted them to be able to have a lit­tle memento from the evening. After the bot­tle was empty, I sneaked the cork in my purse(it’s not steal­ing, because she got it back!). From there my sis­ter worked her bril­liance! The cou­ple she was mak­ing it for love two things in life, wine and gar­den­ing. (yes in that order, jk!) That’s when she remem­bered being inspired by a photo from Piccsy. A mini cork suc­cu­lent planter mag­net. Does it get any cuter? I don’t think so! It’s sen­ti­men­tal, com­pact, prac­ti­cal, green and stylish.


Needed:

  • Corks made from cork not plastic
  • Mag­nets
  • Pot­ting soil
  • Very small suc­cu­lent cuttings
  • Puncher
  • Par­ing knife
  • Glue gun

How to:

  1. CAREFULLY, hol­low out the cen­ter of a wine cork with the puncher and knife until you’ve hol­lowed it out halfway.
  2.  Glue mag­net onto cork.
  3.  Fill the hole with pot­ting soil and add the succulent.
  4.  Use an eye­drop­per to water.
  5. Put on your fridge and enjoy!

WARNING: This might not be a craft for a child or a clumsy adult!

   

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Per­fect For:

  • Host­ess gifts
  • Spe­cial occasions
  • Wine lovers
  • Green lovers
  • Me
  • Thank you gifts
  • Green thumb friends
  • really, any­one!

 

 




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  • The­hu­mofde­li­cious

    Cppur­ga­son, I have made the plas­tic ones, and I can see no dif­fer­ence in how the plants like it. When water­ing the “real” corks, I can sub­merge them in a bowl of water for a deep water­ing, some­thing that doesn’t work as well with the plas­tic ones, but that’s the only dif­fer­ence I have noticed so far.

    My “grand exper­i­ment” try­ing to get the suc­cu­lents to live and be healthy longer than a cou­ple of weeks continues: http://www.humofdelicious.com/2012/06/successish.html Feel free to weigh in with ideas and advice! (Oh, and names of the plants, if you know ‘em!)

  • Colleen

    I wish I would have thought to use a drill. It would have made it so much eas­ier! Next time, I’ll give it a try. I don’t know if plas­tic corks will work or not. If you make one, let me know how it works out.

  • Klkingrey69

    Man, I totally love this!! I’m mak­ing a set for one of the girls in my office for her birth­day!! Super fun idea!!

  • Cppur­ga­son

    My hus­band and I used a drill and drill bit to hol­low out the corks and it worked very well. (No offense) but I think that’s a quicker, eas­ier, and safer method to hol­low­ing the corks if you have access to a drill and the right size drill bit. I was won­der­ing, why would plas­tic corks not work?

  • Vale­ria

    LOVED it, and NOW I know WHAT 2 do with my many corks that r just here in a glass jar!!!
    Tk you!

    Vale­ria

  • The­hu­mofde­li­cious

    Okay, here goes. I’m try­ing my idea to see if there’s a way to get the plants to live longer in their lit­tle cork homes. Here you go: 
    http://www.humofdelicious.com/2012/06/experiment-in-process.html Come join the exper­i­ment. I’ll be watch­ing to see if I can get my suc­cu­lents to live longer than those in my first attemp!

  • Jac McCord

    If you need to pur­chase wine corks in bulk; take a look at this site:
     http://www.etsy.com/shop/CorkingWithJac
    Happy Corking!

  • The­hu­mofde­li­cious

    I tried this using a drill press to make the holes and plant­ing sedona…the tiny lit­tle things dried up after about two weeks and STILL haven’t recov­ered! I have an idea for fix­ing the problem…stay tuned!
    humofdelicious.com

  • Andrea M Cooley

    Great project! We fea­tured some­thing sim­i­lar on our blog and have got­ten lots of com­ments. I’m now link­ing to your tutorial http://www.everafterblueprint.com/2012/02/15/projects-you-should-totally-do-tiny-succulant-cork-planters/

  • Alissa
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