Fourth Of July Craft Fail

by Junkyard Jezebel

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In the past 50 years I've learned some things about myself.
#1 I really love crafts
#2 I'm really bad at crafts
#3 I love buying supplies for craft projects
#4 I'm really bad at following through on craft projects.

Welcome to my Fourth Of July Craft Fail

So you will understand that when I saw the lovely Jennifer Allwood with her mane of blond hair and her adorable accent doing a super-easy, super-inexpensive craft for Fourth Of July I had to bite.

Here are her super adorable balls:

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Now that you've seen her project and how easy she makes it look you can agree that this seems like something that I, as a homo-sapien that manages to walk upright and form complete sentences should be able to accomplish. Right? Are you with me?

So of course I took myself immediately to the craft store to buy me up some supplies (because I've never met a supply I didn't like). I had these cute little metal buckets that I thought would be adorable with the napkins decoupaged on them. I'd use as a flower container or to hold silverware etc. Sounds reasonable right? Anyone want to take bets on how much I bought while I was there? Here was my list.

1) Mod Podge (I already had a supply at home)

2) Sponge brush (I already had a supply at home)

3) Festive napkins

ONE ITEM! I only had to buy ONE ITEM!!!

My craft store haul

No...No...this does not look like one item. This looks like someone with a shopping/hoarding problem. Is there a meeting for that? But I digress....so I brought my haul home and set out a space on the dining room table (because isn't that where everyone does their crafting?) and got started.