The boxes make it look super easy:
So we poured out all the corks and got ready:
First, I tried to remake what was on the box. Kind of easy,
but you can see all the spaces where it doesn’t quite fit right:
Boyfriend made this one:
But then we started to do some of the other patterns they
suggest, and it got hard.
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| I tried to be fancy. |
Boyfriend had more patience than I did. Check out this
action shot:
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| His giant man hands, not mine. |
We also noticed a pattern with the corks.
There WERE a lot of sutter homes, see:
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| Ignore the columbia crest that sneaked into the corner. The rest are all sutter home. |
Anyway, I got frustrated and since we didn’t have a glue gun
we decided to stop for the night. I was ready to open my new bottle of sutter
home pinot grigio (nope, not kidding).
We left the trivets like this:
His:
Mine:
Whose is better? You be the judge.