Last of the February Flops

Here is my best/worst flop of all...

Pickled eggs.

I even deleted the recipe from my blog because they tasted THAT BAD.

SUPER 

FLOP

February Flops

I don't know if anyone remembers but just before Christmas I decided I wanted to make my mother in law a couple stick vases which I originally saw on http://pinterest.com/

http://www.thewonderforest.com/2011/10/make-vase-out-of-sticks-tutorial-time_18.html

They were supposed to look like this ^

Well no one noticed I did not post them but that is because they turned out awful!

There was a whole lot more hot glue that stick,

and the constantly fell over due to unevenly distributed weight. 

FLOP

February Flops

Parmesan and Green onion Tofu.

How could this not be good?

It is a combo of 3 really great things, but this is one of the most horrible things I have ever tasted.

Worst of all, I did not want it to go to waste...

so I ate every painful bite.

This was a February

FLOP

February Flops

Have you ever seen these beautiful hanging balloon decorations?

http://artperspective.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/wedding-spheres/

They look easy enough to make...

But I tried to make paper mache out of whole wheat flour, which I quickly learned does not work.

And what makes it worse is I was trying to be extra fancy and make hearts out of them using 2 balloons + red and pink yarn. It made sense at the time. But I still don't know why I did not wrap the yarn around instead of just piling the yarn on top. The "whole wheat glue" looked a lot more like vomit then everyone else's. I guess I should have stopped then. Oh well, I know how to fix it for next time. I think I will put them in my classroom in pastel colors for Easter/Spring, until then, this was a 

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February Flops

To be honest, I need to be honest with you.

In my blog I post all of these neat and creative things I have done. 

Creating the most UN-real illusion.

*Perfection*

So here are some of my flops.

I plan on trying to remake every one of these again since I learned from my mistakes, 

but until then, this is how it goes...

Once upon a time I tried to make some crayon art for my students,

http://www.intimateweddings.com/blog/kids-table-ideas-for-entertaining-children-at-your-wedding/ 

Which should have turned out looking close to this ^

I used Jared's grandmother's cookie cutters, (mistake #1)

I should have used cup cake tins instead but then I lined them with tin-foil, (mistake #2)

filling them with little crayon pieces instead of full crayon chunks (mistake #3)

and put them in the oven without making fully sure they were sealed (biggest mistake)

Soaking the crayons to get the paper off was the ONLY wise idea.

Also I forgot to mention I layered the melting crayons, I thought it would be a cool effect.

Melt. Fridge. Melt. Fridge. Looking back I should have just filled the little tins completely then melted them. So instead of vibrant colors they had a very muddy appearance. I am still scraping the melted crayons from the bottom of my oven.  Every time I turn it on to bake something it smells horrible in here for hours and I would not dare try to cook something in there yet. At least the cookie cutters made it out safe.

FLOP

Posting more soon. :)