Why?
Why is a good question. I don't know why.
All I can say is that at the time, it made sense. Now? Hmm.
Crafty Intentions: Failed Results, Part 4: Felt Thingys
Why did I make this?
I sure don't know. It took A LOT of hand stitching.
Why.
Crafty Intentions: Failed Results, Part 3: Lace Skirts
So, there was an extended period of time when I couldn't stop adding lace to tiered skirts. By hand, pre-sewing machine.
They were all (thrift)store bought skirts. I was so sure I would wear them all the time, but it turns out that my office job didn't think these were very "Office-Appropriate" and they ended up taking up a lot of poofy unnecessary room in my closet.
It still took me about 10 years to officially re-home them to a local craft re-use store in hopes that a more adventurous soul would wear them regularly and give them the love they deserve.
I didn't wear them often, but when I did I sure felt fancy. It's too bad I didn't get more use out of them. Also sewing all that lace on with tiny hand stitches took FOREVER. I enjoyed it, and it certainly led me to feeling confident enough to attempt to begin my rainbow king sized quilt, which is what led to me getting a sewing machine... But I'm sad this wasn't a craft that made something I really used.
Crafty Intentions: Failed Results, Part 2: Cupcake Icing Caulk
At some point I developed a burning desire to make cupcakes. Not real cupcakes, mind you. I do not cook or bake. Fake cupcakes. Fake, perfect looking cupcakes. First, I needed to figure out how to create perfectly little whipped icing spirals. How do you do that?
Maybe by piping three dimensional paint in an icing bag through a fancy tip?
No, that's not it. They came out yellowed and pock-marked.
What about spackle? Would that come out whiter? Fluffier?
Decidedly not.
How about Modelling paste? (Also a construction-type material)
Success-ish? Achieved the whipped cream white-color. Fail on the texture. They turned out brittle and hard and very matte. I wanted a shiny delicious look. This was not it.
I ended up doubling down and piping a whole truckload of modelling paste into tiny cupcake foils. For what purpose? Mmm, hard to say. Somewhere there is a whole box of these guys just tucked away for a rainy day in my house. Definitely a journey that could have ended a whole lot sooner than it did.
Crafty Intentions: Failed Results, Part 1
Just because I have Crafty Intentions doesn't mean I'm always successful at realizing them. In fact, I used to follow my inspirations to the end of every rainbow, and what I found often ranged from odd to meh to failure to disastrous.
I will detail some of those here for your entertainment, and we'll make this one short and sweet: Packing Tape Sculptures.
Why? I don't know.
Of what? Well, a single shoe makes as much sense as anything, right?
How about as many tissue-box sized cubes as possible, suspended mid-air? Yes. Success-ish.
