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I’ve already professed my habit of pairing crafting with wine. This leaves me with plenty of wine corks, but luckily, that just means a new material to make something cool with. You could buy one of those pre-made cork board or cork trivet kits, but where’s the fun in that? Making your own wine corkboard is very easy and less expensive than those kits anyway. Just start with a fun and funky frame.

These corkboards are (in my opinion), the perfect wedding present—a little different than what everyone else will bring, handmade, customizable and useful in any home. I’ve made close to 20 of them now (family members and friends save me their corks to add to my stash). It warms my heart to visit friends and see my handiwork hanging in their halls.

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Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.