Creative and faithful blog is writen by Karen Clark of Crystal Velvet, a jewellery, tiara and handmade wedding accessories online store. "There are so many amazing things and people that inspire me to craft, create and worship, that I thought I'd share them in this blog."
Friday, September 23, 2011
Disaster ~ Pure Stupidity
Being a crafter, and an experimental one at that, I am prone to having the odd disaster, but my latest is of epic proportions.
I am currently making papier mache bowls for Christmas and this morning I started to make another batch. For the first layers I use upturned bowls and layer paper strips over them for a couple of layers before I bake them in a low heat oven to dry out. Then I make a clay paste papier mache and coat the outer layer on.
So I got out my plastic bowls and covered one huge mixing bowl and two smaller cereal bowls with paper strips. I use plastic bowls as they are flexible and removal from the formed shape is easy.
I bunged them into the oven and didn't really think about the temp. Normally it's on a really low setting, I was so excited at nipping over to the shops for gold spray paint and doilies that I forgot.
I have been unsuccessful in my doily hunt and got talking about crafting to several people and forgot that my bakes were in the oven.
When I came back in I thought, oh lovely they'll be dry by now, and they were, but each one of the paper forms was empty and on the floor of the oven there was a huge pool of melted plastic and to make it even worse it's stuck all over the oven shelves too. The bowls had completely disappeared.
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Oh no - hope your oven survives :)
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