Major project fail!!...Sort of

For Christmas my parents gave me a $25 gift card to Hobby Lobby. Of course I spent it right away. I found in the clearance section this lovely bowl.

I knew right away what I was going to do with it and how I was going to transform this ugly thing into something pretty. So shortly after Christmas I started to prime it. Then it got really cold here. REALLY COLD!! There was no way I was going to go spray paint in the garage until Spring.

Well hopefully Spring is here in Texas so I went to the garage this weekend with the intention of finishing up this bad boy and then it happened.

My heart stopped. Before I looked down I took a deep breath and hoped for the best. So I looked down and there were six huge pieces of broken glass. My pants leg had caught the edge of the bowl and tipped it over on the piece of wood it was sitting on. So I ran inside and grabbed my Krazy Glue and started working. The picture above is all six pieces glued back together. I didn't take a picture but you could obviously see the cracks everywhere on the outside of the bowl.

Then I had an idea for this b/c I spent $11 on this thing and I wasn't going to throw it out just yet. I had a glimmer of hope. I grabbed my wood putty and started putting that over the cracks. Yet again I didn't take a picture b/c this is all happening really fast and my heart is racing and there was no time for in between pictures!! No time people!!

After a few hours of letting the wood putty dry I sanded the putty down and started to prime the bowl again...crossing my fingers and toes this would work. Take a look now!

The arrows are pointing to some of the cracks. You can hardly even tell. This is with only 1 coat of primer too! Once I do another coat of primer and another coat of glossy you will not see the cracks. I don't care what the inside of the bowl looks like b/c when I put stuff in this bowl you won't even see the inside.

Wood putty isn't just for wood! This is going to work! So before you throw something out that has a crack in it, grab your wood putty and try to cover it up. If the wood putty didn't work I was also going to try some spackle for covering nail holes.

Whew! I can breathe again!

Sorry for the cell phone pics. That was another project fail this weekend. I dropped my digital camera for a second time and broke it too. It was an awesome weekend!