The following is a story based on actual events that transpired in our home approximately two weeks ago..names have been omitted to protect the innocent...
Do you see these beads, do you see the empty chairs,
do you see this unfinished unicorn?At some point during this 4 hour crafting nightmare...er marathon I looked up from this mind numbing...er pretty unicorn to see that my children had abandoned me. I was left alone to finish what was supposed to be a quick little craft first thing in the morning.
This beaded, multicolored, made for fairy size fingers nightmare...er craft should have come with a HUGE warning label on the packaging:
"Any all persons with fingers bigger that a newborns this craft will reduce you and those around to sobbing, bleary eyed, fetal position rocking, blobs of goo on the kitchen floor. Where your husband will come home for lunch to find you and then proceed to try to "show" how easy it is before joining you on the floor in said fetal position. "
Had I read such a warning label while standing in the craft aisle at Walmart I wold have ever so gracefully flung...er placed it back on the shelf and proceeded to buy the over priced Martha Stewart craft instead of this devil sent...er made in china bargain craft...
Amen
And just to get your mind off my rant on onto to something much cuter...Please enjoy this picture of our cat in her new favorite place to watch me, her loving owner be defeated by cheap crafts!
7 Come on...Tell me what you're thinking:
That mess would have thrown me for a crazy spell. LOL! I feel that way about Legos! ;)
That project looks like something my kids did at church. You make the design and then put an iron on it. Is that the same one?
Shelly, Shelly, Shelly, what were you thinking? they made cute crafts though, ummmmm I wonder why I did not hear of this before?
YUK on the cat on the table...
you have a good sense of humor, which is good, it keeps you from going crazy....mom
It is the kind you iron when you finish...and also the kind we will not be attempting again in our house for at least 531.5 days lol!
LMAO! I nearly wrote an identical post last week. Every single time I went to iron one of the dozens Perler animals the kids (namely Miss Hatfield--that child is like a machine and can knock one of those things out in 10 minutes flat!) made, I would bump the darn thing and those stupid beads would scatter everywhere. So there I would be, painstakingly replacing beads, praying they were in the correct color position, for hours. HOURS. I feel your pain, my dear. I feel your pain!
I am totally with you on the warning label...I too thought it a great craft that would keep them entertained. However even their fingers were too big. But a good trick is to use tweezers...it kinda makes it more fun. But then the ironing thing...I have yet to get one right. Do you actually put the iron right on the beads? What temperature? I first tried it with a piece of cloth...WRONG! A better fit for those tiny beads are necklaces! Great post!
Nina
So funny Nina!
You are supposed to use wax paper to iron on. lol
These beads have done in more than one mom from the sounds of it!
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