Crafting Failure #252

It's funny,  when Shawn & Impulsive Addict started this meme a few weeks ago, I thought it might be hard to keep up with these 2 pro bloggers.  After all, they are the central cause of all the coffee stains on my monitor - you know - from all the spitting of my coffee while laughing out at some outrageous thing these girls are telling us.

Seriously, if you are not a regular reader of these two, you must start ASAP - they tell it like it is  and are not ashamed to tell their most embarrassing moments (ask IA about the time she tooted in front of her test-taking class.....and then blamed it on one of her students!!) These girls don't need to bribe you to read them or link up - they don't made up crap about "people not liking them" - they are down to earth real friends.  And I know this - I spent one of the most fun weekends with them last May.

Anyways, back to the meme - I thought I'd have a hard time each week coming up with something funny or creative to talk about for "Talk to Us Tuesday".  The thing is, there are no rules to this meme - you can write about anything you want and I love that.




So today?  I want to show yet another example of the horrible crafting I do.  I have shown you a few of my crafting failures in the past. But this one is unbelievable.  One critical step missing can ruin it completely.

I, like many others, spend hours pinning adorable things on Pinterest.  It makes me motivated to try things I KNOW I can not do.  I KNOW I should not try to do. And I KNOW I will only end up failing.

Rarely, do I ever follow through with any of these silly crafts. Because all they do is turn into monumental failures.  Like the one below:

For my sweet Sister-in-Law's Girls Weekend before her wedding, I decided to make custom wine glasses to commemorate the happy occasion.  Aren't they cute?

 They were actually very easy to do.  Just a few paint pens, stick on gems,  and some different spools of ribbon.......

 It was actually quite therapeutic to make.  How fun to paint a few wine glasses.   And look how cute they turned out for all of us.  It was really a fun event to toast the bride with our matching glasses.

But, I skipped a critical step.

I didn't think I needed to "seal" the fun artwork on the glasses.

And once the cool champagne hit the fun paint.......it started to smear.....

My dots and my swirls started to run down the glasses.....

It didn't look so pretty once they'd been used....

And I wondered why no one took their glasses home.....

When will someone PLEASE just tell me - crafting is NOT your thing??????

I will learn, one of these days .......