I stopped using Pinterest back when the whole legal issues with copyright infringement were going on, but since that has been resolved, I’ve been going on more and more, and pinning great projects here and there. Last night I decided to put one of my pins to work. The one about cleaning baking sheets, after they turned brown with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. I was pretty giddy about this, because we are about to just throw our baking sheets away, and buy some new ones. They are THAT bad. After seeing a pin about cleaning them on Pinterest though, I thought I was about to save the day and some money.

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Looks legit, right? I went home last night, made my mixture of the miracle cleaner, and then I scrubbed my little heart out, and then I scrubbed some more, and some more. Eventually, I got fed up with scrubbing, rinsed the sheet off and showed it to Travis. I asked him if he noticed a difference between the left side compared to the right (I only scrubbed one side of the baking sheet), he said no. I didn’t noticed a difference either, so it was a fail. Did I do something wrong? Anyone else know a different way to get the brown marks off of the tray?

Since that Pin went wrong, I decided to share some other things that I pinned, tried, and failed at.
Like this wood letter transfer. I tried this with three wooden plaques for my city signs.

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It didn’t work, but I think that’s because I don’t have that steady of a hand. In the end it looked like a three year old painted it and just could not stay in the lines. Another problem might of been poor lighting. Our living room is in the lowest level of the basement, therefore we don’t get much sunlight, so I could barely see the indents in the wood. Advice: Have plenty of natural light & a steady hand.

I’ve also tried using MANY tutorials on Pinterest on how to dye a mason jar blue.

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I’ve tried dying my jars three separate times now, and it never comes out right. Help!?

The last fail I have, is using vaseline to distress something that I’m painting. I used this technique on a three hook shelf that I bought from Michael’s. I painted the shelf white, but some vaseline around the edges, spray painted grey overtop and then wiped off the vaseline.

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After doing the vaseline technique, it looks ridiculous. Kind of looks like big blobs of white paint everywhere. So frustrating! I have to say that with as many fails as I’ve encountered, I’ve had an equal number of successes. Like my christmas tree skirt, my NOEL sign and my bottle cap magnets.

Have you ever had a Pinterest Fail? What about a Pinterest Success?

Posted on May 19, 2013 - 16 comments
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On the last currently lovin’ post, I displayed a “meet me at the farmer’s market” print. I’ve since bought that print for the kitchen. I’ve been trying to put some pop’s of orange into our kitchen (like this, this & this). I knew that I didn’t want to put the print in a plain white frame, since the background of the print is white, and the kitchen backsplash is white; it would just disappear. So, I grabbed one of my 8 x 10 frames from an old project. A project that I did BEFORE the blog even started, crazy huh? At the time, I took one of my frames, spray painted some stripes on it, and used it as a dry erase board for the fridge in our old apartment.

I took the frame outside and sanded it down a bit, to get a nice smooth surface and then I spray painted the entire frame with grey primer. Once it was dry, I took some bright Orange spray paint and did three coats on the frame for a nice clean finish.

Once it was dry, I put the print inside and hung it in the kitchen where there already was a nail. I didn’t want to hang it over the stove because I didn’t want grease splatter to get all over the glass, and I was going to hang it over the sink, but none of the nails were centered, they were just kind of scattered around, and I was not about to put more holes in the landlord’s tile, even though the last tenant put holes everywhere.

So now the little guy just hangs out in the kitchen. I’m hoping that our future house has the perfect place for this little guy, because every time I look at it I smile. Such a great little print.

Posted on May 19, 2013 - 16 comments
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All I really have to show from the weekend are the pictures I posted on Instagram. All of the photos on my camera’s are not blog appropriate. Nobody wants to see my drunk Uncle, or my Grandpa drinking out of a huge wine bottle. Okay, you probably do want to see them, but I’ve gotta protect the family name ;) Too many incriminating photos. But here are some G rated photos from the weekend.

How was your weekend?

Posted on May 19, 2013 - 14 comments
 Filed Under: Weekend Wrap-Up