Life in our house can be stressful, messy, and frustrating along with all the good stuff too. It's easy to portray something as a magical experience when writing on a blog. All I have to do is crop the pictures a certain way and edit out the parts where Sweetie started screaming and had to go to Time Out, or the project just didn't work...
This candy corn picture frame was a perfect example of project-gone-bad. I printed up color pictures from the computer, glued them to cardboard, and let the girls glue candy corns around the edges.
Well, they used a lot of glue and the candy corns started to liquefy. Orange goop was oozing everywhere. The goop just wouldn't dry. I thought it dried. It looked dry. But when I hung the pictures up on the fridge, orange ooze and candy corns gradually pulled loose from the pictures and started dropping onto the kitchen floor.
Oh well...sometimes things turn out great, and sometimes, well, they wind up in the trash bin. And that's okay. If it wasn't okay, this blog would have never made it past the third post.It seems the being of a family is not in one single experience or one moment, but in the moments and days of a lifetime. The ins and outs and ups and downs. Whether they be glorious or goopy.
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Thanks for sharing that! I am constantly in AWE of your website and wonder if there are ever "moments". :) I am very inspired by your creativity!
Good idea, wrong glue!
Try it again with HOT GLUE!
Cute idea though. It was thought that counts.
Very cute idea! Maybe candy corn stickers will work better?
I was hoping to see pictures of the goopy corn falling to the floor~that would have been a wonderful testament to the reality of life with kids!
Great idea!
Thanks for sharing when things do not go as planned. We have many projects that do not flow with smiles and success rather many projects flow the opposite way.
Thanks again for sharing!
Well, I found you through Lisa leonard and I found her through "my happy little life" blog and I'm so grateful!!!
You have such inspiring, yet simply ideas for FUN with the FAM!
THANKS! Nice to meet you!
ah, real life...gotta love it. it makes the good times better and the real stuff makes us normal. i love you!!
Some days are like that! :) I think I tried glue and candy corn together once and had the same result! :P Maybe it would work with hot glue! I also liked Pink Lemonade Bags' idea of using stickers!!
I also just had another thought... what if each girl had a shadow box frame and changed the photo and decorations in it for each season??
You can use sticky dots with it next time. No burned fingers with hot glue, no running off the frame with white glue. We love the sticky dots for our preschool and it works with just about any material we can come up with.
Love the shadow frame idea! Love the sticky dot idea! Love all of my readers. Thanks for your sweet comment.
Hi Chrissie! Thanks for all of the cute ideas. I have quite the list of things I want to make with my kids now. Your blog is inspiring, and I am so glad you take the time to share your talents. Hope you don't mind that I linked your pumpkin garland idea on my blog. By the way, I loooove that Mexican hot chocolate recipe.
I love your site! I just found it tonight and I browsed all the way back through June. You are full of such creative ideas. I can't wait to read more.
good to know others have great projects turn out so so we had that happen to what seemed like a great idea from a kid concoction book!!
love the idea though and mine would so use too much glue too! :)
Well said, with many thanks for being "real." :0)
Cute project.
So very true! Our blog lives can look so amazing and put together. However, we all have those ups and downs. No child is perfect, no home is without a mess... but good editing... well that is heaven.
Very cute idea indeed! I've got some candy corn that I've been wondering what to do with. hmmm...
We've certainly had our fair share of projects wind up in the trash.
Today at work, one of the other teachers tried to make a fall wreath with candy corn. I tried to warn her about your experience. It melted on them too! Quite a mess with two year old kids. They winded up applying acorns instead!
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