I love the idea of crafts. I really do. Spending time with my bug, making a mess or something beautiful out of paint, glue, stickers, whatever. But I pretty much just all around suck at it.
I have the best of intentions when it comes to crafting – but NEVER follow through. Case in point, a few weeks ago I was contacted by a rep from Musselman’s applesauce. I don’t typically do product reviews but this was a little different. They were going to send me two jars of applesauce and a “recipe” to make bunny place settings for our Easter table. AWESOME!
Now this family loves some applesauce so there was no way I was going to turn that down —and a fun craft to boot — this was going to be great.
Early last week, I got my package, oohed and aahed over the idea, the cute bunny cookie cutter and the general concept. The Bug and I were all ready to make place settings on Friday. I even thought about inviting over my neighbor and her son.
But alas….I didn’t. I didn’t on ALL fronts. No crafts. No neighbor. No cute bunny place settings made from applesauce and flour. Big fat mommy fail. And I felt even worse when I saw all the cute bunny’s on Musselman’s Facebook page. Seriously, how cute are those? (Mine would NOT have looked like that.)
I don’t know why I bother. Maybe when the bug is older and I feel like he really cares about the crafts? Oh really, who am I kidding?
PS. A huge thanks to Musselman’s because it truly was a super cute idea and the applesauce was extremely yummy. My heart was in the right place when I accepted the offer.
I totally hear you. I want to be crafty. I'm super crafty in my head. In reality though, not so much. People say DIY is so much cheaper, but not for me. I buy the stuff for DIY things, then screw it up and have to go buy it anyway.
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I understand completely! Oh i see these moms who do these super wonderful crafts and i get the idea into my head to try it out — by the time i get all the kids set up and give it a try its always an epic failure 🙂 just dont have the 'crafty gene' in me i guess
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