Wine Not?

Sometimes the perfect nightstand is right under your nose.  In your kitchen.   Holding an empty bottle of wine for decoration.  At least that's how I found an innovative bedside table.  After I realized that I would probably never own a bottle of wine long enough to keep in a wine rack, I decided to put this framework for the fermented to better use.

It took some trial and error to realize that most things (alarm clocks, glasses, tissues, lamps) fall through the slats no matter how good you are at Jenga.  It needed something.  Something flat, and something I had in the recycling bin:  cardboard.

In a stroke of genius I found a crocheted, plastic decorative-type square.  I'm not really sure what its purpose is, so this seemed like a good outlet for it.  The cardboard was miraculously the same size as the crocheted square (you will see that this happens fairly often in crafting - it's like faith, you just have to believe that it will fit).  The next step was to layer the two squares on top of the wine rack - again, there are no wrong answers in crafting, so you can do this however you want, but I chose to put the blue square over the cardboard. 

It's pretty much perfect.  You could also use a tray, notebook, or magazine to achieve this look.  The squares are a little small for the top of this but like I said, if you believe that it fits, it does.