I remember running late to work one morning and driving like a maniac, I took a sharp turn and spilled coffee all over my favorite purse. Coffee is probably one of the worst stains to remove, let alone the lingering smell.

If I told you there was a place you can go to find the cure for removing any stain, would you believe me? The University of Illinois has gathered exhaustive remedies for hundreds of common, hard-to-remove stains in one easy to search resource, with surprising specificity at their Stain Solution website. The site offers a variety of stain solutions and will tell you exactly what kind of tools you’ll need to arm yourself with and the procedure for removing it. Best of all, it also provides alternative methods on how to remove the stain from different places, like from your carpet or your clothes.

Visit Stain Removal Solutions to see how dirty work gets cleaned.

My friends and I love to wine and dine. We can go through a few bottles of wine every time we sit down for a nice dinner. If you’re a regular wine drinker like myself, you probably have a lot of wine corks lying around. The corks are great reminders of bottles past but they can also be a project for your next rainy weekend.

Craftynest has a guide for creating an attractive, foot-friendly bath mat by hot gluing them to shelf liner. All you need for this project is a hot glue gun, some non-adhesive shelf liner, and a lot of wine corks. Other than the time it may take, the project is pretty simple. To make the corks stay down easier, you’ll need to cut each one in half before gluing them down onto the shelf liner — so you only need half has many corks!

There are plenty of other uses for wine corks such as turning them into place mats, coasters, or piecing them together into an actual cork board!

For the full scope on how to make the wine cork bath mat, check out Craftynest.

Check out LoveToKnow Crafts for more wine cork projects.