Colorful Wooden Trivets

Eating at home more and more to save money has become a fabulous thing for us. It's amazing how much we spent going out to eat and now that money is being saved. And since we eat supper at the dinner table every night, we're also bringing the food over with us. We purchased a single trivet and it's just not enough for my many pots and pans cooking style. Rather than spend big bucks for a bunch of trivets I decided to try and make them out of things I already have around the house.
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The answer was found in clothespins!






You'll need about 24 clothespins per trivet. You can repurpose ones that you've been using for laundry that the hinge has gone out on, or the bags are only $1 apiece at Walmart and you can get 4 trivets out of it!






Pins are glued together (visit site for more help).






Each trivet looks like a fun and colorful snowflake and I love it! They're useful and inexpensive and they chipper up our supper table at the same time!
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***UPDATE - I never put my pans straight from the fire onto trivets so they have a bit of cooling time and I'm not worried about the heat. A pot right off of the burner would surely be bad news for the bottom of your pans. You can use a good quality sealer to help keep the paint off of your pans or you can use a high heat spray paint, but it seems those only come in white, black or red. Wood can always be stained and then sealed, also.







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