Hmmmm, I am beginning to see a pattern with my crafting fails. Whenever I try to make some sort of flowery doo-dad for an jewelry project, I crash and burn. Here’s my latest flaming inferno of failure.
I had an urge to go all Martha and make a flower zipper brooch like I have been seeing all over the webs lately. I searched through the bins of zippers at the local thrift store and found one that was appropriately worn and frayed for that shabby chic look.
Shabby, yes. Chic, dunno about that. I got to work on the brooch by chopping off the ends of the zipper and pulling the two halves apart, like so.
Check out my mad photography skillz. Nothing says “professionally made product” like a photo lit only by the flash of a crappy point and shoot camera.
Anywho, once the zipper was taken apart, I got bizzay making the flower. I folded and twisted, pinned and sewed, expertly forming the petals like a, um, an expert petal former.
Behold the fruits of my labor!
It’s a moss-covered, three-handled family grendunza!
What’s a moss-covered, three-handled family gredunza, you ask? I’m not sure, but it’s not a flower.
So. Much. Sympathy. That’s what happens when I try to make bows.
^_^ It doesn’t look THAT bad… then again I’ve not seen what it’s supposed to look like~
PS: a credenza is a piece of furniture. ^_^
“moss-covered, three-handled family gredunza”
she’s referring to an object in the Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
I think the zipper-ma-bob is kinda cool. You may find use for it yet.
Aww it looks like it was on the right track. No pun intended. :P
Not to be *too* pedantic, but the “Moss-Covered, Three-Handled Family Credenza” was from the TV special for the Cat in the Hat.
And yes, it was a credenza.
On the Craft Fail side, I don’t think the zipper thing looks too bad!
Hey-I really like your creation! Good job:)
Nope. It’s a gredunza, I’m sure of it. Both here and on the Cat In The Hat.
Your site is amusing me mightily. thanks!
I kind of like the pink ‘n silver swirly-ness of it!
hee hee….I love the Dr. Suess comment :-)
At least you tried! I love to look at them and then I just fail IN MY MIND and move on!
good try but i am not sure why these things are popular now anyway, as the edges of zippers catch threads on every fabric and shred em like Olympic snowboaders!!
That stinks that it didn’t come out the way you wanted to!
I dunno, I like the lighting. It makes me think the pictures were taken in a cold abandoned warehouse lit by a single flickering half-burned-out bare bulb — an appropriate place for shameful (and funny!) craft-fails to take place.