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An Itty Bitty Bit of Bold

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If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know that I love paint – and particularly bold paint.  I joked with a friend yesterday that I don’t normally go for colors described as “soft” or “light.”   And to make it even more bold, I usually combine those colors with super graphic patterns and lots of bright stripes.

Now, I know that look isn’t for everyone.  As my husband would say, “That’s a whole lotta look.”  So for those of you who crave a little boldness but maybe just on an itsy bitsy, teeny tiny scale, I created a crazy easy spray paint project that you can do in an hour.

spray painted glass vase
Darling, right?  My little planter is just the right touch of funky boldness without going all Makely on your walls.  It is spray paint season after all.

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The Craft Fail That I Literally Set on Fire

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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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