String Balls - Failed

Want to see something absolutely beautiful?? 

Aren't they beautiful?! Ugh. So gorgeous.. almost unbelievable actually!

Well guess what... they are unbelievable because here's my attempt at a string ball ----->

I was shown this awesome centerpiece idea for a wedding and was asked to try to recreate it. 

I was thinking to myself, this will be the easiest crafting craft I've ever done! Things started off bad to begin with. I had all my supplies... balloons, string and fabric stiffener (which is almost impossible to find, I finally found it at Walmart and it was overpriced!) 

I blew up my balloon and started to wrap it with string, since this was a very difficult task because the string kept slipping off, I couldn't take any pictures. The string was falling off, becoming untight and just overall being difficult. This is what it looked like before I sprayed it. As you can clearly see the string is loose, I thought that maybe it wouldn't matter and would just add to the artistic element of the ball when it was finished. HA. 

Once I got enough string on, I took my stringy ball outside so I could spray it. 

After it had dried for about 6 hours, I brought it inside and popped the balloon. 

Do I need to say anymore? I think the pictures basically speak for themselves. Attempt 1: Failed. I really hope my failure at crafts isn't a repeating process for much longer because I am getting very frustrated!

Duke mocking me. How rude. 

Glittery Ornaments using Mod Podge

While browsing Pinterest.. I noticed beautiful glass ornaments people had made mixing Mop N Glo and glitter, mixed together on the INSIDE. How perfect I thought.. the glitter won't be falling off all over the place plus it'll last through the attic during the off season. So that was what I was going to present to y'all tonight. Well, after going to Hobby Lobby and Kroger, I had forgotten my Mop N Glo. I didn't want to disappoint so I thought I would sub out the Mop N Glo for Mod Podge. Here is what I got.

What you need:

• Glass ornaments (They are currently half off at Hobby Lobby!)
• Baggie (cut the end and poor your glitter through there. I didn't need to but just in case!)
• Glitter
• Mod Podge (maybe..)

So I took the top off my ornament and poured in my mod podge. (Actually my mom poured it in and I took a picture :) )

Then we shook it all around until the inside of the ball was evenly covered.

If there is a little excess mod podge inside, you can pour it back into the bottle. That was what was recommended with the Mop N Glo version too.

Now time to pour the glitter in!

Shake it all about until all that glitter is evenly coated inside your ball!

Annnnnd this is what it'll look like:

It's safe to say these did not turn out as beautiful as the Mop N Glo version. So, tomorrow I am going to retry this but with the Mop N Glo. I don't like this verison at all, the mod podge is all chunky on the inside, it took forever to evenly coat the inside with both the mod podge and glitter. I'm giving this a thumbs down.

This made me CRINGE!!

Mod podging wooden letters with tissue paper

Ok folks. I thought I would pick something easy to do today since I have to go to a kindergarten Christmas party at 2:30pm.

I saw this beautiful idea the other day:

Source: southernhospitalityblog.com via Samantha on Pinterest

So I went out and bought my letters and some light blue and gold tissue paper. I was ready to begin, I even thought I could hot glue some rhinestones on these babies and really make them shine. Here are the supplies I gathered at the beginning of my project:

• Mod Podge
• Brushes
• Wooden letters
• Light blue and gold tissue paper
• Hot glue gun & glue
• Rhinestones
• Glitter

Along my journey into this I realized I needed a X-Acto knife, so make sure you grab one of those before getting started.

First I measured how much tissue paper I would need. This all depends on the size of your wooden letter. For mine I was able to cut one sheet of tissue paper into fourths and each sheet perfectly covered one letter.

Then I painted the entire base of my letter with Mod Podge.

Then gently place your pre-cut piece on the wooden letter. You may have to smooth it out, to do this gently pat the tissue paper with the palm of your hand or finger tips. Pat lightly or the tissue paper may stick to you and come up off the letter.

After you've done all your letters let them dry for about 30 minutes.

Now using your X-Acto knife, use an up and down motion to remove the tissue paper from the letters. If you pull the knife it tends to rip the paper off the top.

Now you should have something like this. I put two layers of tissue paper over my letters to it showed up more but you can just do one layer if you feel like that is enough.

Now.. I had read that she Mod Podged the tissue paper along the sides. I was kind of hesitant about this because my letters have all the small nooks and crannies but I thought I'd give it a shot.

 It did not turned out as planned. Instead I ended up with a sticky mess and the sides of my first 'S' looking nasty. So I didn't continue this for the other two letters, instead if there was any blue hanging over on my sides I just painted over it with a small brush and white paint. Here's what my 'S' was looking like:

This was starting to take way longer than expected so I had to drop the idea of the rhinestones and hot glue ( :( ) instead.. I thought I'd just put glitter all over all the letters! Who doesn't love glitter?!

So I Mod Podged back over all the letters one at a time and sprinkled glitter until they were evenly coated.

My conclusion on this project is, I think instead of tissue paper it would be much easier to use scrapbook paper because if your hand is wet from the Mod Podge and you touch an area of the tissue paper it will come RIGHT up. It also rips very easily when you are trying to get the excess tissue off the sides.

So even though I did eventually finish this project, after almost 2 hours, I would recommend scrapbook paper instead of the tissue paper.

This one is cringe worthy, but can be fixed by changing the paper!

Tomorrow: Wine bottle with gemstones & twinkle lights!