Flower Pin

It's my turn I guess... Lynnette has done a fantastic job but I promised I would chime in every now and then. 

Let me start by saying- I love Pinterest but I've only done... oh let's say 3 projects-- as a safe number. Maybe 4... okay I lied 3- and 2 of them were recipes. It's true. But after this weekend, ask me again how many I've tried. That's right my number has just gone up by one more. 

Because of this little beauty:

http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2008/09/petal-pillow-tutorial.html

I know. You're in love. 

I was too, so I gave it a shot and here's how it went down:

 12:45 pm: Run to Hobby Lobby and buy 1/2 yard of background fabric and 1/4 yard of coordinating felt... Oh yeah I forgot the thread and only had navy blue. Not so great. Ran to Michaels for that because it's closer.

 2:00 pm: Look for something about the right size to use as a pattern for the petals. I used a green chile can for the smaller sized circles and a Magic Bullet Comfort Ring for the larger one... come to find out later it's not really THAT big of a deal that it was exactly 2 1/2" and 3 1/2"

 2:35 pm: Made a template from an index card with my circles traced on-- then cut them out...

 3:00 pm: Still cutting...  circles, then in half.

 3:25 pm: Finally done cutting, start sewing. At first I tried to be really particular with making sure everything was evenly spaced... then it got to be impossible... so I gave up. I just stuck them on as I needed them. I kind of started to scrunch them a little to get them to stand up a little. 

 4:05 pm: DONE! 2 hour project. Done and done! Overall I think it turned out well. I do wonder if anything other than felt can be used for the flower part... next project.

Overall... Pinterest success. 

Mickelle

Tape Nail Art

I painted my nails a lovely Autumn color a few days ago - brown. It's simple, and I like it a lot. But as it goes, the nails start to chip or the edges start to fade a little.  They weren't chipping very much, but it was starting to annoy me.

So what better time to try some scotch tape nail art that I've been looking at on Pinterest?! Since my nails were brown, I decided to go with the always popular brown/pink combination.

The brown I used first was from Mary Kay, color Lavish Sable. (I am a MK consultant after all.) The pink I used on top was from Revlon, color 115 - Peach Petal. I HATED this Revlon polish when I first tried it out, but I've gotten used to its consistency since then. We're friends now.

Here are my fading nails...

I saw this pin, and I'm seriously not that talented. I can barely get the color on my nails. I decided to go with a simple diagonal line for my first try at this technique.


Pinterest - Scotch Tape Nail Art

Tape Nail Art Source

I hope this is the correct source. It looks like the site got their picture from Pinterst, so if you know another source for this, please let me know.

So I put the tape on my nails, and I accidentally had to adjust my tape on my middle finger. And the first casualty of my experiment was quick and painless. I did cry a little bit because now I realized that I would have to start from scratch if this didn't work out. Well, crud.

The same thing happened on my ring finger. Ugggh! I seriously considered giving up on the whole thing at this point. But for the sake of experimentation I pushed forward, hoping for some redemption.

I decided to invert the tape for the ring and middle finger to cover up the parts that peeled off. I'm so smart, right??

I painted, and then removed the tape. I tried to take the tape off in a direction so it wouldn't peel off my polish. That worked okay until I got to my pinky. That was VERY sad. I was actually very hopeful until that point.

 

 

I was pretty impressed with how it turned out. Not too shabby. You can see the bump from where I accidentally peeled it off with the tape.

 

 

Looks pretty okay, except that dang pinky. There was a tiny bit of redemption. I was thinking about doing it to my other hand, and then I decided it wasn't good enough to keep.



 

Result: Well I only half failed, and I half succeeded! Glass half full, right? Yes! Even though I immediately took it all off and painted a new color, it was a fun experiment.

 

So here are some tips that I learned from trying out this pin:

1. Make sure you have a good polish on for the base coat that won't peel off easily when taking tape off. I'm not sure how you would know this. They should put that on the bottle. That's normal, right?

2. Have a back-up plan of how to fix it if/when it fails or takes off a little bit of polish. On my pinky, there was no way for me to fix that. That was a main reason I just scrapped the whole thing and did not try the other hand.

3. Maybe there would be better tape to use than Scotch tape? Perhaps a less sticky tape? That would be silly, considering tape is supposed to be sticky.

 

Anyway, ultimately I failed. But I don't think it was operator error. It was more of the product not being great to use with tape on my nails. Maybe other brands will not peel off as easily.

 

We have some projects in progress and on the way to the blog. Look forward to that and Happy Pinning!!!

 

Lynnette

Pinning away!

Hey there!

I wanted to introduce us and a say little about this blog. As we post I am sure you will learn all kinds of randam facts and fun things about us.

Mickelle and I work together and share an office. It makes for good times. Mickelle is an ASL interpreter, and I am a real-time transcriber. We each love our jobs a lot!! But when work is over we have many creative urges, and need to release that pent up creative energy into our homes with all the crafts we do. Sometimes we do crafts together, and sometimes not. But we are always sharing with each other the things we do and dream of doing.

As many of you, we are a little bit addicted to Pinterest. We also love the blogs that make us laugh with all the things that people fail at when they try pins they have found, such as: Pinstrosity (fuuuuny) and Pintester (Please know that Pintester does have some colorful language, but it's funny!)

With the inspiration of these blogs, we decided to try it out. However, we will try things we (and you) want to try. Some things we will test, and we are ready for the success or failure that will come. We are hoping we will be mostly successful!

It almost sounds like I'm giving a pep talk, right? I won't lie, I kind of am. I'm scared. I'm ready!!!

Please enjoy, and if you have any feedback for us, let us know! We are willing to try some new things and see where this blogging journey takes us.

Lynnette