Reindeer and Amanita mushroom made from wine corks.

Christmas ornaments for beer lovers, and recycled craft lovers bottle caps and corks equal Mushrooms!





Then I took a few artsy photo's of them.

Oh my pretty beer cap mushrooms.

The owl looms over the mushroom forest

Recycled crafting is pretty and fun!

I have a plethora of bottle caps and wine corks. So I am always looking for recycled craft projects. For some reason I thought a bottle cap collection was a really good idea. The wine corks I got from work for a long forgotten about project. Of course I still have these things because of their potential craft possibilities. Well, lately I have been on a craft spending freeze until I have crafted up some, if not all of my stash(aka hoard). So I was thinking about Christmas tree ornaments and was pretty sure I had seen some made out of wine corks. A little googling and you will see a lot of cork reindeer ornaments. And not much else.So.........I made a reindeer, but it wasn't really my thing. I felt like it should have real sticks for antlers and legs. But that would have required foraging for sticks outside and adding to the chaos of my craft room. Then, I decided that I should incorporate bottle caps into the reindeer somehow, so I could at least use up some bottle caps. I placed the bottle cap on the cork and was like wow that looks like a mushroom. Which is fantastic because earlier I had been considering buying some mushroom ornaments for my tree. Ever since my mushroom club Christmas meeting, where there was a discussion on the correlation between Santa Clause and Amanita Muscaria mushrooms. Very interesting stuff. Reindeer love to eat psychedelic mushrooms ! I always wondered how they learned to fly.So I made a few Amanita'sHowever I was hesitant to use my coveted bottle cap collection on a mushroom with a painted top. Some of these caps are vintage! I mean a Zima bottle cap has to be worth something right? No, well I felt like the caps themselves where pretty enough on their own to be mushrooms. So I made a few more.More recycled crafts projects on Making Minneapolis