The Hippie Hobby Subscription Box Review + Coupon- January 2016

Box: The Hippie Hobby
Cost: $23.95 with free shipping
Theme: Eco-Friendly Craft Box
Contents: Everything you need to complete craft with an emphasis on natural or recycled materials
Frequency: Every other month
Coupon for $5 off your first box: 5OFF2015

This is a new box for me. I loved opening the box and seeing this beautiful presentation. It makes me think I should try harder when I leave the house to look more put together instead of looking like a homeless person…

This is a “craft in a box” style box. It is geared and focused on using recycled or natural ingredients. As you can see above, the packaging was shredded newspaper! Tiny details matter in the box world and I love that they used recycled materials even down to the packaging.

No, this newspaper is not the craft….

Here is the theme for the month. To create an up-cycled wine cork heart.

Are you hoping that they included the wine as well as the corks?!?!

Nope. Here are the corks! Recognize a few brands?
Do you think the Hippy Hobby staff drank all this wine before or after creating this craft?!?

Here are the very detailed and clear instructions with pics for those of us who don’t do well with instructions…..
ahem, me

I am amassing quite a few glue guns thanks to craft boxes… If there is ever a glue gun emergency (like you need glitter glued on asap) then I’m your gal.

Easy to use stencil.

The pretty packaging re-appears as part of your craft. Very handy indeed.

Ok lets get to work:
Plug in those glue guns!!

The stencil made the craft easy to get started

Here is a pic of the average glue amount I used in between the corks.
Tip: you have to work fast with low heat glue guns or you create weak seals that can easily pop off

Next up, wrapping the hearts with a burlap ribbon.
Tip: This serves two purposes in that is stabilizes the heart as well as makes it look pretty…

I used less glue points around the heart then they recommended only because there is no way to avoid this look (pictured below) where the glue seeps through the burlap. They recommended every cork and I alternated with every other.

Voila! Start to finish it took about 30 minutes.

Here is where I point out one thing that irked me about this project and that was that not all of the wine corks had the red wine stain on them. If I was allowed to drink right now I would have just saved a few and replaced them with corks from my own wine.
Although they did all have corkscrew track marks….(which sounds dirty doesn’t it?!)

Here is where I am trying it out in my kitchen
yes, we love kalamata olives….

They also included this fun mini-craft which I have not tried out yet because I am low on olive oil.

Survey Says:
I really like the intention behind this box. This craft was beginner friendly and they made the directions really easy and clear. I do think the value wasn’t quite there on this box. I purchased this box with a $5 off coupon bringing it down to $18.95 which still seems a little pricey for this style of craft. One nice thing is that they do a lot of spoilers on instagram so it would be easy to pick and chose to hop on and hop off depending on your preference for the material being focused on for the craft. A friend of mine did a Christmas ornament this year using corks and created a grape cluster that looked a lot like this one below from Craftingforholidays.com.  I think the inclusion of something else maybe glitter or etc would have made me feel this box was worth $24. This is only one box though and so the value may vary per box.
They include free shipping and you know how I feel about free shipping……………. ah-mazing!