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The Craft Fail That I Literally Set on Fire

by Lindsay Ballard on May 6, 2014 1,641 Comments

When I started DIYing, I quickly learned that not everything goes according to plan.  Like the paint saturated roller cover that fell off my roller cage this weekend.  Or the umpteen million cuts I’ve made too short.  I generally don’t share those things, because they are just stupid things I didn’t think through.  But recently, I had a craft fail so bad that I just had to tell someone.

You may remember when Kelly sent me the box of goodies for our thrift store swap.  I made a pendant light out of the ice bucket that was in the box.  I also had a covered wooden cheese plate and an Elvis silhouette.

After I finished the ice bucket light, I set my sights on the cheese plate.  I thought it would make a really cool candle plate to house a group of mismatched candles.

I went though my candle stash (which is pretty large for someone who doesn’t have many candles in the house) and picked a few different sizes and colors.  I cut down some taper candles so that they would fit under the glass dome, and I hot glued everything into place on the plate.

Candle craft fail

Now at this point, I should have been able to tell that things were going badly.  There was hot glue all over the place for crying out loud!  But, I thought I could fix it.  With fire….

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The Low Rider is a Little Higher

by Lindsay Ballard on May 5, 2014 2,190 Comments

A few years ago, I redecorated my kids’ playroom.  In order to make it more family friendly, I added an Ikea Karlstad sofa to the room.  But, I thought the legs on the sofa were awful, so I replaced them with some tapered legs I found at Lowe’s.  I swear that I wrote a post about it, but I can’t seen to find it now.

Ikea Hack - building sturdy tapered legs and skirt for a Karlstad sofa

That’s not the most detailed picture of the legs, but I can’t take another one to share.  Why?  Well, the legs flat out fell off of the sofa.  The combination between the thin wood and the leg plates on the bottom of the sofa was a bad combination. They just sort of caved in and snapped off after about 6 months.

Tom tried to fix the legs several times, but they continued to bend at the metal plate.  So, we gave up and had a leg-less couch sitting on the playroom floor.  It was super stylish, y’all.  We called it the Low Rider couch.

The point finally came that I had enough.  We used some scrap wood from the garage and some spray paint, and helped get the sofa off the ground (again).

Ikea Hack - building sturdy tapered legs and skirt for a Karlstad sofa
These legs are going nowhere, y’all!  And they make the sofa look a little more polished.

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Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.


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