THE NOT SO GOOD...

Here are two crafts that did NOT turn out...luckily they were almost free in the supplies department, just time into these hideous gems...and I have a few ideas for attempting them again at another time.

The carafe...made from an old juice container. Worked fairly well since the container was squarish & the mod-podge held well. To make it a little water proof I also put clear contact paper over the scrapbook paper. The top is mod-podged also, but did not hold up as well & the bottle is IMPOSSIBLE to get shiny, even with a bottle-brush scrubbing. It is an "ok" turn out.

As my husband said, "it looks like trash dressed up." - I, unfortunately agree."


The next one is an idea I got from Pinterest. Basically you make an ornament hook, they used string, & then let a giant melty blob of hot-glue melt all over with the hook in it, then add a pipe-cleaner nose & bead eyes & a bead mouth. I did an orange ribbon nose & a pip-cleaner nose, both were cute & easy...however, the beads did NOT stay in the glue & looked terrible if they were pushed in too far, which made them stay, same for the bead or wiggly eyes that I tried. Also, the directions to do the blobs on tinfoil...I could NOT get the foil off of the cooled ornaments!!! Making them on my work mat helped & they pealed right off, but bending the mat to loosen the beads pop-off even faster! Too bad this didn't work out so well, they looked adorable! ...maybe I can get them right by next year...