Wine Cork Angels - July 21, 2012

I'm going to make Christmas ornaments until November.  Then I'm going to box up small collections of the ornaments I've made and gift them to people for various reasons.  My cousin who is getting married in August, my sister who recently moved in with her boyfriend, a newly divorced friend who may need Christmas ornaments not attached to memories of her marriage.

I'm collecting items from friends and family.  And I finally took a list of additional items with me into the craft store and spent $35 to finish some ideas I've found on Pinterest.  This is my first ornament.

The wine cork angel was an idea I found on Pinterest.  The link takes me to nothing, but the image was enough for me to figure it out.  First I got everything together.

Then I made the heads with halos.

Tried glue to add the wings, but the straight pins I bought work better with less mess.

So, the finished product...

Merry Christmas!

Added on July 26, 2012 -
Use a thimble to push in the pins to the cork.  The one for the head isn't too hard, but one for the wings goes in with difficulty and at such an angle that the first batch I made caused me to lose feeling in the tip of my right index finger for a few days.  I made more last night using the thimble, and while I might have bent a couple more straight pins than I did with the first batch, at least I can feel the tip of my finger.