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Fabric Wrapped Cork Board DIY – How To Make Cork Board with Fabric.

Fabric Wrapped Cork Board DIY

In case you were wondering …. 
 
 
yes, it really was that cold in Chicago yesterday.
 
 
When I woke up my Weather App told me the air temperature was a brisk -21 degrees.
 
 
-21 degrees!
 
 
Yeah, that’s normal. Not. Just like the Chicago river filled with blocks of ice is normal. Not.
 
 
I supposed I shouldn’t complain. Great Forks, North Dakota supposedly reached -38 degrees last night.
 

I honestly had zero expectations of actually experiencing the cold yesterday. I honestly had zero expectations that I would set foot out the front … or back … doors. I honestly had zero expectations of even getting within a few feet of said doors (especially the front door which is super drafty!).
 
 
And in preparation for honestly not experiencing the cold yesterday, on Tuesday I did a big shop. Five-filled-to-the-brim-shopping-bags-and-a-12-pack-of-diet-Coke big shop …
 
 
but then …
 
 
karma kicked us in the butt.
 
 
Though, is it really karma when all I did was prepare to not go outside in polar vortex sub-zero temperatures? I always thought karma was some kind of cosmic payback for doing something … well … bad?
 
 
So what happened, you’re probably asking (or, perhaps pleading?) me to tell you instead of rambling on about what karma is or is not.
 
 
Well …
 

the furnace died.
 
 
Dead. Nada. Nothing. We flipped the switch and …
 
 
silence.
 
 
No humming motor sound of the furnace turning on. No booming metal sound as the furnace kicked in and started blowing warm air out.
 
 
So here we all are … Mike home from work; Molly home from school; Ernie the beagle home because, well, he’s a dog and he’s always home … shivering in our home.
 
 
Now, on the plus side-ish: We have two furnaces. And the one that decided to kick the bucket heats the new addition. So the bedrooms upstairs are still warm. 
 
 
But the main first floor living spaces — living and dining rooms and kitchen — can’t get above 60 degrees. Not exactly cold enough to drive us out of our home to a warming station. But just cold enough to be uncomfortable.
 
 
Luckily the heating guy showed up relatively quickly. And luckily it wasn’t a full furnace replacement (phew). 
 
 
But why does this always happen on the coldest day of the year? Or, at least happen to us on the coldest day of the year? The last time we had to replace the furnace (the one that heats the main living spaces and bedrooms) happened on …
 
 
you guessed it …
 
 
the coldest day of that year!
 
 
So now I’m trying to figure out what horrible things I may have done to inflict this cold karma on me and my family! 🙂
 

 

So today, in honor of sub-zero temperatures, I thought I’d share a project worthy of a polar vortex kind of day …

 

How To Make Fabric Wrapped Cork Board DIY

Materials

Cork Board (I used 12 x 12 cork tiles)

Fabric (I used this gray/beige/white paisley fabric, purchased from an Etsy shop)

Glue Gun

Scissors

Cut the fabric, leaving a 1-2 inch border around all sides.

Add a dot of glue at the corner.

Fold down the corner piece onto hot glue. Hold for a few seconds until dry.

Add a bead of glue along one length of the cork board.

Press fabric down and hold for a few seconds until dry.

Add an extra dot of glue at corner. Fold over and hold until dry.

 

Okay, now I’m suppose to show you more pictures of how I folded over the other edge of fabric to finish off the corner … but I must’ve gotten distracted or something. Because I simply cannot find any more photos.

 

So instead I’ll just leave you with the finished fabric wrapped cork board diy project …

Oh, and in case you were wondering, it really is that cold in Chicago again today. Woke up to be greeted with a -16 on my phone’s weather app …

 

brrrrrrr …

 

but at least the heat is working today! 🙂

 

I’ll just leave you with a shot of the Chicago polar vortex from @online.chicago on Instagram …

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Comments

  3. I live in Darien Il a suburb of Chicago.It was truly thee cldest day,I do remmber -27 in ‘85, but this was bitting, I ok’d yo -24 below,Ordovician ch5 NBC reported. Proud of how this big city shut down, came together to help homeless & each other. Despite crime statistics,this is a great caring place…Sm 68 lived here most my life..just hate the gold.. great blog! 48 days till Spring 2019☔️💐🌷🐥🐰

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    • And just a few weeks until pitchers and catchers are called to Spring training (as my baseball loving husband likes to remind me!). Yes, it was wonderful that the city pulled together. I’m so happy they shut the schools! I remember when I first moved here in winter of ’93/94 we hit -21 one day (with -60 wind chills) and my husband and I still went to work. On the way home we got a flat tire and the spare was literally frozen in the trunk (it was a cheap street junker car). He had to ice pick it out while I had a margarita at the restaurant across the street. He had to come in every 15 minutes or so to warm up! Brrrr!

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  4. So my nephew, raised in Tallahassee, is early decision for Northwestern. Yesterday I pointed out that it was just four minutes to frostbite. He said it was fine, he’d run fast.
    He.Has.No.Idea.

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    • Lol! And I thought “no big deal” when I moved from NJ. My first winter was a rude awakening! But after 25 years I’ve gotten used to it. Kinda. I prefer double digit temps! 🙂

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