Kirk, that looks wonderful. I'd be hanging that in the kitchen. Ladies and Gents...if you do give away a "cork" gift, make sure it goes to someone you really love. If you notice, even good wines rarely have real cork these days; a plastic look alike is about as close as it gets. I have saved some over the years and now have them displayed in an old mason jar. Glad I have them!! (PS...not sure what's going on here right now...but I keep trying to move my cursor with my mouse, but the "hand" pops up as if there is a link under my message. Strange.)

I've found that the compost-ability of wine corks depends on the terroir. On the one hand, the 1968 Bordeaux Chateau Margaux, the Montrachet 1978 from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, yer 2004 Domaine d'Escausse La Croix Petite, Gaillac, an' them 1999 and 2000 Giacomo Marengo La Commenda, Tenuta del Fondatore Chianti Riserva compost pretty good. But don't even try with the 2003 Domaine Chante Cigale Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Those corks will be gumming up your tiller, sticking to your pitchfork tines so ya gotta scrape them off constantly, and popping up in your potting soil for years.

You're welcome! I just sold a whole set of old flatware on a garage sale for $5............ now I need to find someone who would gift me some old forks! LOL

If I was doing a ceiling, I would get some thin plywood sheets, glue to corks to them, then screw them to the ceiling, rather than trying to stick corks up there one by one like Michelangelo doing a cork version of the Sistine Chapel. It sounds cool though! I've cut them in half using a bandsaw. Clamp a piece of PVC pipe just bigger than the corks, to the saw table, with the blade centered on the outlet of the pipe. Shove corks into it and halves come out the other end.