What is this? – The ingredients for a craft project?- No its actually, my craft project come undone- all on its own!!

I wanted to make Christmas tree ornaments which I can shape any way I like. My oven’s not working, so I was looking for a recipe that didn’t involve baking- and I found a recipe made from basically cornflour and baking soda.

It was all going fine. I made the dough, shaped the ornaments, even pierced holes to put a thread through. And then I left them to dry, before I could paint them.

Meanwhile I enthusiastically put up this new idea on a blog I started recently. I was so proud of myself.

I couple of days later, I’m go back to the ornaments to paint them and guess what I found- A dry mixture of cornflour and baking powder!! So that’s what this mess is.

I guess I didn’t do my measurements right, and I managed to use baking powder instead of baking soda. Next time, I’ll be more careful. I’m still on the lookout for a good recipe, If I find something better, I’ll put it up on my blog- but this time I’ll wait for a couple of days first!!!

Hope you enjoyed my story. I’m Sharon and I love doing crafts for fun. Do visit my brand new blog http://afewnicethings.wordpress.com/. I also contribute under the name Sharon David to this craft blog http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/kidscraftsactivitiesblog/

When I saw this gorgeous hand-dyed TISSUE PAPER (!) project on the Parent Hacks blog a couple years ago, I knew I needed to try it! So pretty, and you can use it to wrap gifts with a handmade flair! The instructions said to use full-strength food coloring to use as dye. I didn’t take them at their word… and my tissue came out looking like:

Wait for it.

Awwwwwww yeah. I can’t even blame Martha for this.

By Heather, Dollar Store Crafts

By Liz from BabyBlooze.com

Back in early September, I bookmarked this awesome idea by The Idea Room to make jello worms. I saved this recipe for a full two months, hell-bent on impressing the neighbor kids with this winning idea (I have a side hobby of freaking out the neighbors with a worm composting bin so I figured this would be perfect.)

So this is the photo of the beautiful, perfect worms conjured by Amy.

And these are mine:

Nice work!

I really had two problems here… first, I didn’t have a empty milk carton to hold the straws and that was kind of a problem. The jello leaked out of the bottoms of the straws which resulted in worms only a couple of inches long.

Leaky straws

And secondly, I didn’t quite get the part Amy said about using HOT water to run over the straws before trying to squeeze out the jello. Note to those of you willing to try this — listen to Amy. Really. Use HOT water for this step.

The results were so bad I tossed the whole thing. But I’ve since tracked Amy down on Twitter (so I can ask her questions), and I’m ready to try again!

Besides Liz’s culinary fails, you can check out her parenting fails vis-a-vis the crying photos of her kids on http://www.babyblooze.com.