It's a Pinteresting World

It's hard to decide when my life changed - was it the birth of my daughter, or was it my introduction to Pinterest?  What is Pinterest to me - is it a nice little filing cabinet for ideas?  Is it my go-to place to find new craft projects and recipes?  A total time drain?  I'll go with all of the above.  However, it's not a make-or-break for me, nor do I TRY RIDICULOUS THINGS.  Those Toy Story cake pops are super cute, but I'm not dumb enough to think that I'd be able to replicate them.  While Pinterest Fail is a funny idea, sometimes I don't understand why people even attempt some of this crap.  Often times they repin professional ideas. I leave it to the pros!

My husband is really into decorating for birthday parties, and our daughter's party was no different.  I found tons of ideas on Pinterest.  Above is the crayon wreath I saw on a party table.  Success or fail?  If you look at the photo, it looks like a win . . . but it was a fail.  It's sitting on my washing machine in this photo, not having been actually used at the party.  The crayons are super delicate, just having been hot glued onto an embroidery hoop.  I tried to transport it from one house to another, and the crayons were knocked off the hoop right away.  So, even though it looks pretty, it's on the verge of falling apart at all times.

And now for the paint chip utensil holder.  The husband picked up the fantastic Crayola paint chips at Menards.  I used glue dots for the crayon chip, and the heavier-duty double-sided scrapbooking squares to fasten the solid chip to the multi-colored chip.  Frankly, this turned out awesome.  Without the scrapbooking squares, it would have been a fail, but thanks to my mother-in-law for her advice on the scrapbooking squares.  And let's be honest - the Crayola paint chip made the project!

My final party Pinterest projects:  The "dripping" paint cans and paintbrush rice krispie treats.  The dripping paint cans look great, with paint cans purchased at Home Depot and cheap JoAnn's fabric.  We just taped the fabric to the inside of the can.  No problem there.  However, the rice krispie treats were falling apart.  It's as simple as it looks - Wilton candy melted, and we covered the treats with it (using a spoon).  Since they were so weak, I ended up putting them in bags for the kids to take home.  I suppose that was simply a presentation fail.

Now THIS I'm super proud of.  A good friend Pinned a link to using magazine holders (2.99 at Target) to organize plastic bags, foil, and the like.  Love it!  As you can see, I only bought two as a test, but will be adding more.  Notice how my lunch bags don't fit in the organizer with the foil, but do fit in the magazine holders.  And yes, I bought the Ziploc ones on clearance after Christmas, of course.

Here's the deal:  Pinterest is fun, but sometimes we forget that it's all in fun.  I've had very few failures because I'm realistic about it.  As much as I'm dying to try the DIY rosette headband, I also know that I'm destined for failure on that front.  Stay tuned. . .