Crafting FAIL

We'd all like to assume we are super women/men.... people.  I'm lucky because in my case I actually am.  However....

I had some grand plans to put together wax paper chandelier that MULTIPLE people have posted on their blogs.  I'm sure that I could eventually figure out how to do this properly and maybe I just completely overestimated the amount of patience I have but it did NOT turn out well.  At all.

My niece came over to help, my sister to watch, my nephew to entertain Benny.

So we were supposed to take 3 sheets of wax paper between two sheets of parchment paper and iron them together.  I had Alex tear all of the parchment paper and wax paper into strips.  Just like the blogs suggest.

We were still feeling pretty good about ourselves so here she is.... happy that she has accomplished successfully tearing eleventy bajillion sheets of wax paper.

Then things began to get more difficult as I realized I had lost my iron.  It goes downhill from here.

After my neighbor let me borrow an iron and we get back to work I started the process of ironing only to realize that we didn't need to tear the entire box of parchment paper into strips.  You really just need two because you can reuse them because the parchment paper is just there to keep you from screwing up your iron.  (Don't worry Julie, we didn't screw up your iron.)


Whatever... Onward and upwards!!!  We start ironing things together and I hand them off to Alex.  Here's where we run into the major problem....

The whole punch I bought for $20 (I mean I had a coupon and everything so I didn't actually pay that much) SUCKS MONKEYS!!

This is the best looking circle we got.  I know that might not seem like it's that bad but you have to realize it took us twenty minutes to get ONE that looked this good.  The chandelier takes about 10 million.  I just don't have that kind of time in my life.











This is how we felt.

But Nathan had brought home beer from Hop City.



















Then we got out the yarn

Here I am World!!!!

I've started a blog.  Woo!!  OK.  I'll admit I've done this before.  I had one where I ranted about things that got on my nerves.  That was kind of fun but sometimes I would have to edit myself so much not to piss everyone off that it stopped being entertaining.  I had one about romance novels (under a different name because it was dirty) and that was REALLY fun... especially when the authors were commenting on my posts.  It made me feel special.  But having to keep up with multiple passwords was really just beyond me.  So I'm going to try again.  I'd like to say this is a craft blog but I'm going to call it a "me" blog.  Chances are there will be a good mixture of rants about whatever is on my nerves at the moment, funny things my kid says/does, annoying things my husband says/does (I'm just kidding.... after 11 years of marriage he is always perfect), and random factoids.  BUT there will be lots of crafts.  I love crochet and really anything with yarn, sewing, painting, stenciling.  Also, probably a fair amount of recipes.  You'll also see some fun family/kid fun stuff.  So... hopefully you guys will subscribe and give me lots of positive vibes so I'll keep it up.  I promise to try to be entertaining, though I know I will fail at times... Remember I base my self esteem off others thinking I'm awesome!! ; )