{"id":854,"date":"2006-12-04T20:59:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T20:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=854"},"modified":"2006-12-04T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T20:59:24","slug":"put-a-cork-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"put a cork in it"},"content":{"rendered":"

My office echoes like crazy, so I had been meaning to make some fabric wall hangings or something to try to absorb some of the sound. Kelly<\/a> told me that cork is great for sound insulation, so I decided to use cork and mount fabric to it. I also needed some bulletin boards, so voila, use cork!
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\"bulletin<\/a><\/center>The one on the left has a pocket along the bottom. The inspiration for these bulletin boards came of course from Sally<\/a> and her amazing wall pockets. The board on the right has a couple of little pockets on the bottom left. Here’s a closeup of the board:
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\"bulletin<\/a><\/center>I got a pack of four large-ish cork tiles, but they were on the thin side, so I glued two together (didn’t want the push pins to go through to the wall).
\nFor the wall hanging dealies I got small squares of cork (they came four to a pack) and covered them with some of my favorite fabrics.
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\"cork<\/a><\/center>It’s a fun way for me to commemorate early superbuzzy fabrics, too!
\nFrontal assault view:
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\nI’m quite happy with how these turned out. They were easy to make, too. I fused the fabric onto the cork using double-sided fusible stuff called Steam-a-Seam:
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\"steamaseam.JPG\"<\/a><\/center>I just cut out squares, fused the fabric onto the front, then cut small strips (I also purchased a roll of skinny tape, also Steam-A-Seam) to fuse the flaps onto the back. The stuff isn’t as sticky as it claims, but it still worked quite well. The only downside is cork is pretty smelly!
\nA couple people have asked about our pink tree. It’s not vintage or anything (remember, I’m trashy and unsophisticated), but it’s cute. We got it on sale at Michael’s. It’s only 4 feet tall. It’d be fun to have a really huge one. Anyway, here is a shot with the lights on and one with the lights off:
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\nWell, I’m off to San Francisco for the day with some friends, so if you see a bunch of loud women clad in polarfleece, you might want to run the other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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