My Mad Arts & Crafts Skills - HA!

So.... My daughter came home from school Tuesday to tell me that her Advent Mary figure was due NOW at school. Yes, I was told about this sometime in November, but apparently, since the due date was sometime in December it went on the back burner in my mind. Since Tuesday afternoons are filled with a mad dash from the bus stop, to getting ready for dancing, to driving 15 minutes to dancing and spending 2 hours & 15 minutes there, not to mention grocery shopping for ingredients for supper and making said supper... the project would have to wait. I promised her teacher she would bring it in today.

Yesterday, when I got her off the bus we had to tackle the always-fun-and-hair-pulling-tantrum-inducing Wal Mart to get supplies. Thanks to my good friend Kassi I had a great plan in mind for what we would do. Unfortunately, once I dug up the original paper with details of the project, the dimensions were required to be quite larger than what Kassi referred me to and my plan was shot to hell. We spent 3 hours of fighting with foam board - which so graciously broke my favorite yarn/knitting scissors (yes, I am totally aware that I should not have been using this type of scissors on foam board - Now...) - felt, which would not glue to said foam board, glitter paint, yarn, and needles trying to puncture said felt... Nightmare... When the regular glue wouldn't work I pulled out the super glue. I went to bed frustrated, with fingers covered in super glue, and with felt that STILL wouldn't adhere to itself. In hindsight I should've bought the "Adhesive back" felt squares... Hindsight is 20/20 right? Thank goodness I had some safety pins from Recital laying around.

Needless to say - I am not fond of arts & crafts. I am not a creative person whatsoever. It is a complete shock to anyone who knows me that I have picked up knitting and love it. Arts and crafts Stress. Me. Out. - HORRIBLY. Why? No clue. By the time I got A. bathed, fed, and in bed and I still had work to do on the damn thing I was almost in tears. Maybe PMS is to blame but I contribute it to my great hatred of all things creative when I'm involved. Anyway - below is a picture before we got busy with the rest of her "veil" and hit up the glitter glue and so forth. I completely forgot to take a picture of the finished project. Can you tell I was ready to get the horrid thing wrapped up and on the bus with A.?

I truly feel sorry for my daughter for having me for all of her forthcoming school projects. Let's hope some of her MiMi got passed down to her so she has some sort of artistic hand. Then maybe I'll be off the hook when she finds out she can do better than Mommy can!!!