In an effort to use Pinterest and not let Pinterest use us, Cait and I got together today for a little crafternoon. I stopped by the Lobby of Hobbies on my way to pick up some canvases. Having been there before, I set my course for the canvases and looked neither to the right nor the left. A girl can get lost in that place, with paint brushes, artwork and bits and pieces of crafty heaven everywhere. It takes a sturdy soul to make it to the checkout with only what was intended.
Canvases in hand, I made my getaway and showed up to Cait's house only a few minutes late. Our first project was supposed to be drawing designs on a canvas with Elmer's glue and then spray painting white over the whole canvas after the glue dried. Unfortunately, we read the fine print on the original link that said the woman had drawn her design on wax paper with puffy paint and then glued it to the canvas and painted it. The glue came out bubbly and too runny, so we ditched that project.
Undeterred, we moved on to making t-shirt bracelets. Here's the picture we were working with…
Yeah, great, so even and smooth. Well, this is what I ended up with after about 3 times of redoing my work.
The point is, photos can make things look easier than they are. We learned from it and moved on to the next project. These rosettes were super easy and we only used fabric (ribbon in Cait's case) and a glue gun! Tie a knot in one end of the strip, then wind the fabric around the knot and twist it, gluing as you go.
Finally, we found a headband project that seemed doable in a short amount of time. I cut off five strips off of an old t-shirt, one inch wide each, and did a 5 strand braid. It's not finished yet, but hopefully soon it will look like this. Until then, it looks like this.
We had a lot of fun crafting away, and learned some valuable lessons about realistic expectations for first time projects!
LMS, who loves the smell of glue gun in the morning!
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