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When you look at this photo… You don’t really need to read the instructions. I have proven this by doing exactly that, or exactly not that, you know what I mean: I didn’t read the instructions. The craft, though beautiful is pretty straight forward and obvious, thus the instructions likewise. But just in case you, the reader, are not as smart as I am, I’ll write some out for you. No, not the original ones, but the tried and true obvious ones of my own design.

Step 1. Buy several 2 Liter bottles of Coke. (one for you and each of your children)
Step 2. Drink the Coke. All of it.
Step 3. Attempt to bring order to your household, fail, and realize it’s part of the artistic process.
Step f-f-f-f 4. Embrace the sugar and caffeine. You will eventually come down, but for now, channel it into your work. Dip, splat, dip, splat and repeat.
Step 5. Craft late into the night. Your heart is pumping like that because what you are creating is so freaking fantastic!

Read how Emmy fell victim to imperftect Pinteresting here by clicking this image.

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Thank you for your inspiring work, Emmy. Keep it up! We know you don’t have a choice.

With any major movie release comes a tidal wave of merchandise, and The Hunger Games was no exception.  But why go out and spend $20 on a mockingjay pin when you could make your own out of puff paint instead?  Here’s why.

As a big fan of the books, Aunt Peaches was excited to make herself something to wear when she went to the theater to see the movie, however she wasn’t expecting the results to look quite like this:

It was supposed to look like Katniss’ golden mocking jay pin but it came out looking like someone stepped on a glittered tater tot.

…But that didn’t stop her from wearing it!

Read the full story at Aunt Peaches:  Craft Fail: Hunger Games Mockingjay

So I returned to my home state eager to try my hand at some of my own cocktail concoctions. The Paloma looked promising on Pinterest, mostly because I had an approximation of all of the ingredients.

Perfect Paloma Cocktail by Drizzle and Dip

Well, approximation. The blog post waxes poetic about reposado tequila that is sucked from the agave leaves by the mouths of virgins and aged in barrels made from Jesus’ cross for exactly 17 years and 2 days.

I didn’t have any of that shit. I used Jose Cuervo, mayn.

I also did not have any fresh grapefruits or limes. (Big surprise there.) So Ocean Spray came to my rescue.

It’s surprisingly difficult to find out how much grapefruit juice is in half a grapefruit. When I Googled it, the response was largely, “OMG, you shitstain! I cannot believe you are too lazy to juice a damn grapefruit! You do not deserve to know the answer! You are dead to me. Dead.” So I guessed.

It will be no surprise to you that I guessed wrong and ended up with no room left in the glass for the club soda…

… a problem easily solved by drankin’ somma dat shit. So I did and then topped it off with the club soda.

I have to tell you, it wasn’t that bad. I mean, I’m sure the Holy Tequila would have made it better and stuff, but you can’t really go wrong with juice and tequila. (I might embroider that on a pillow.)

To see more of Pintester’s tests (most of which are also CraftFails), check out her blog at Pintester.com.

Fairy Cookies - Nailed by Muffin Tin Mom

When Michelle from Muffin Tin Mom saw these adorable pink be-sprinkled heart cookies in a cute cookbook, she couldn’t wait to try them. A few minutes too long later, her cookies were evil fairy-cursed…

Nailed it!

image: @megs_paige

As a public service to the world, the CraftFail staff has been compiling crafting tips. Thanks to @megs_paige for helping us illustrate tip #435:

Craft Tip #435:
Wear gloves when spray painting.

Sometimes it is difficult to determine who got into the garbage can and made a mess.  Sometimes you get lucky and catch the culprit red-handed.  Or in this case, blue-necked!

It turns out that Tulip’s new mess-free tie dye is not-so-mess-free when it comes to the dog. Explains Johnnie from Saved by Love Creations:

If you have a nosy beagle, make sure you keep the trash from your project out of his reach…  I am no forensic scientist, but I am pretty sure that my beagle tore into the trash for the rotisserie chicken remains.

Have you ever seen a face that looks so innocent attached to a neck that looks so guilty?

Read the full story at Save by Love Creations:  Tie Dye Craft Mishap

It was supposed to be fun.  It was supposed to be easy.  It was supposed to look like a tree.

In reality, it was none of the above.  While it may have seemed like a good idea when they spotted the idea on Disney Family Fun, once Small Town Dad and family were done cutting, hands bent to cramped-up balls, the results looked less like a tree and more like a rocket ship…  Sort of.

By the time we finally finish – over two hours later – it’s way past the kids’ bedtime, my right hand has become a useless claw, and our tree house/rocket ship, which is held together with duct tape, looks neither like a tree house nor a rocket ship. But no matter, because the kids love it. That is, they love it for the remaining 15 minutes they’re awake. After that night, they never actually play with the cardboard monstrosity again.

Well..  It’s the thought that counts, right?

Read the full story at Small Town Dad:  The Craft from Hell

Inspiration: Cinnamon sugar pumpkin donuts from Buns in My Oven

My oh my, these cinnamon sugar pumpkin donuts look delish. That’s what Mel from The Larson Lingo thought when she set out to make them in her pinterest test kitchen!

The dough was so thick, and it wouldn’t pipe into circles (donuts) like the recipe said.
I decided to make them into donut holes.
They didn’t turn out like donut holes, more like donut blobs.
And, they didn’t taste like donut holes AT ALL. Not even close.

Read the whole sad story at The Larson Lingo: Pinterest Fail Kitchen

Inspiration: Kami's project from Make & Takes

Carla wanted to make some of those cute little yarn balls that are all over Pinterest. Carla? Yer doin’ it wrong:

I found a pin where you dip yarn in watered down glue, then wrap around a balloon. After a day, the yarn should be dry, you can pop the balloons and be left with cute little yarn balls. I couldn’t find the 5″ – 8″ balloons recommended in the pin, so I went with what was at the store – long twisty balloons (like you use for balloon animals). I tried to subdivide the balloon into smaller, rounder segments for wrapping, but it was an epic fail! It was nearly impossible to wrap the mini-segments – the yarn would hardly stay on the balloons, bunched up everywhere and just looked terrible.

Kami made it look easy! It’s sooo not!

green ombre cake - inspiration photo by Hot & Chili

Reader Liz  wanted to make one of these awesome multi-layered, multi-colored ombre cakes like the one from Hot & Chili.

“Turns out you need to use at least two boxes of cake mix and two cans of frosting otherwise you’ll get uneven, thin layers that you can’t cut to even out.”

It still tasted good, though!

The whole story in pinnable form: