Craft Fail Extravaganza
This weekend I spent three days glueing and molding and accomplishing jack diddly. The Gods of Craft mock me and fart in my general direction.
Craft Fail #1: I printed up several illustrations and glued them to glass, exactly like I've always done for those damnable Etsy pins. Then the next day I trimmed away the excess paper, as usual. All four peeled off with very little effort. WTF??? Normally it takes a lot of elbow grease and a very sharp X-Acto to scrape the pictures off the glass and these pretty much fell off in one piece. Same glue, same paper, same ink, same glass globs. No idea why they did this. I've even had a customer recently tell me she accidentally washed and put one of my pins in the clothes dryer and it survived unscathed so there's no reason the same exact glue should behave like this.
Craft Fail #2: I took a couple of glass thingies with the illustrations that had been securely stuck on last week and glued them to fabric, as usual. The fabric turned brittle and came off the glass in chips so I couldn't use those either.
Craft Fail #3: I was rummaging around in a tin of clock parts and inexplicably chose the most boring metal piece in there and decided to use the last of my silicone to make a mold of it because I thought I needed multiple boring metal pieces, only in colored plastic. Well, they wound up being even more boring than the original, if that's possible. You can't even tell they were molded from anything remotely interesting.
Observe teh boring. Sneer at the two identically dull round items in the bottom row. Or better yet, don't waste your energy. Go watch some paint dry.
Craft Fail #4: I discovered one bottle of my two-part plastic resin had a dried crust on the surface so I cracked it and poured a spoonful of it and mixed it in with the other and some powdered pigment, as fucking usual. It started frothing and swelling up in the molds and turning battleship gray instead of a nice bronze. Fine. I thought I could paint it and file down the backs. Ha! They never hardened. Two days later they're still bendy and spongy and completely useless for jewelry.
This is what I got for my birthday on Sunday. Total craft fail. Nobody gave me a new Strangling Robot or even a flamethrower. Hell, I could certainly use a flamethrower.
