Nailed it! When project fails are too funny not to share.

I am a reasonably intelligent woman, but for some reason that intelligence doesn’t ‘activate’ until a day after the fact.

I have to share my concrete projects with you….

I found this pin on Pinterest and decided “looks easy enough”.

I got out my rubber gloves, my Quickcrete concrete mix and got to work.

I stuffed them and shaped them and set them out to dry.

Looks like it’s got potential right?

Except I forgot to agitate the concrete to get the air bubbles out.

Oh, and I forgot that once the fingers are cemented together, it might not be super-easy to remove the gloves.

As it turns out, if you leave a lot of air bubbles in your concrete it isn’t as hard as if you had removed them.  Then, when you attempt to rip the gloves off of the hands – the fingers might fall off:

Not quite as attractive as the inspiration photo is it?

NAILED IT!

Lost a pinky and two thumbs before I quit trying to cut the gloves off.

At this point I’m tempted to break off all the fingers except the middle one – just to make a statement about how I feel about this project.

Okay, let’s not be a Debbie-Downer here – I still had concrete left and another inspiration photo to work with:

It’s a coaster.

How hard can a coaster be?

I didn’t have the crushed glass, but I did have marbles so off I went.

Pour the concrete over top and AGITATE WELL.

Do you see my flaw already?

First off, that tuna can is almost 2″ (5cm) tall…. and yup, I filled it almost to the top.

Secondly, what might happen if you agitate the liquid concrete around the marbles?

I’ll show you:

NAILED IT!

The marbles become engulfed in the concrete and you can’t see them at all.

Had I thought this out, for even the briefest second, I might not have filled the tuna can – so that the tops of the marbles would still be above the concrete line.  Yup, that’s what an intelligent person would have done.

Not me, I decided I needed a 1.5″ coaster to put my drink on.

No many people can claim to have to reach UP to put their glass on a coaster.

I can.

And I can say that there are beautiful marbles inside it – that you can’t see – but the happiness comes from knowing they are there…

somewhere.

UGH!

I have a couple of unattractive paperweights if anyone wants them?

These “Nailed it” type projects happen far more than I let on on the blog.

 

Have a great one!

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