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2 Little Hooligans

2 craft failures in 2 days.

People ask me a lot if I ever have a craft fail…well of course I do, everyone does. I just had 2 craft failures in 2 days. Luckily some of the time I am able to turn it around and make it into something else. For example this Anthropologie inspired comforter I just made was a craft failure at first, but I was able to turn it into a craft success. But sometimes my projects are just beyond being saved and they end up in the trash like this homemade fruit leather that took me over three hours to make.

It sure was pretty to mix and it smelled amazing, but I wouldn’t try that recipe again. My second craft failure came today when I started to pull all the staples out of this chair that I was reupholstering.
I’ll admit I was getting pretty discouraged fast with this chair. The chair wasn’t even bare and I had pulled 10 pieces of fabric off it, yet I was still determined and kept going. But once I found out that the cushion on the back was glued onto another piece of fabric which was filled with fluffy batting I decided to give it up and call it a craft failure.
I’m pretty sure that if I were willing to put in many many hours on this chair I could eventually reupholster it, but I’m just not willing to do so. So I’m ok with failing sometimes.
And luckily I’m only out $9.99 for both chairs because they were 1/2 off the day I bought them.
But I learned a lot from this little project. First of all when I’m completely in love with the design of the chair to begin with, don’t buy it. There will be more matching chairs out there that need to be reupholstered. And secondly, spend more time looking at the design of the chairs and not just the price tag… $9.99 really spoke to me.

So those of you out there that are too scared to try something due to failure just remember we all have failures. But don’t let that stop you. It’s always better to try and fail, then to have never have tried in the first place!

Comments

  1. I just posted about my failure to calculate our taxes the first time. I understand failure. But like you said, I would rather try and fail than not try and wonder if I could have done it.

    I love your blog by the way!

  2. This might make me a bad person . . . but sometimes, craft failure posts are my favorite ones to read. It's nice to know everybody isn't pumping out amazing projects all the time!

  3. Oh man! That chair has me shaking in my boots. You are one brave lady for trying it. I don't mind when I have a craft fail, but I need to work on getting the motivation back after it happens. Thanks for sharing to let us all know that even great minds like you have bad days too!

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  5. Hello, you used to write fantastic, but the last several posts have been kinda boring… I miss your great writings. Past several posts are just a bit out of track! come on!