Craft Fail

Today, I decided to get crafty. My office mate fully supported me in this endeavor and today was both a success and a fail. I saw this really cool idea on Pinterest (where all good ideas start) of spray painting wine bottles one color and then wrapping them in rubber bands and spray painting a different color so it has this really cool graphic effect. I also found another cool idea of painting cheap glass bowls with acrylic paint and then spray them with a sealer of some sort so it doesn't chip. I had the brilliant idea to use up the acrylic paint I had left over from a project that I did for the kiddo’s birthday party in September. I bought some dollar store square candle holder type things and thought I would do the whole wrap it in rubber bands and use a different color just like the spray paint. Well, here is how that turned out. 

The colors I have just happen to be the colors for my college

and the colors of the college I worked for before moving here. 

It started off so well. We painted them one solid color. Not that difficult, right? 

Rubber bands and the second color. We're already feeling this was a bad idea. 

You might not be able to tell, but the rubber bands on the red and white one decided

to break during the painting of the red coat. 

Final product. Not what I thought it would look like.

 Unlike my office mate, I saw this craft fail all the way to be bitter end. 

This side didn't turn out too bad. At least it seemed more like my vision. 

After the craft fail, I decided to turn the red and white one into this.