I Don't Craft.
And here's why...
This is a project L bought today at the store. A simple pop together haunted house. No glue required. Alright! Pop together. Great. Let's craft!
HA! Getting just this far with the house took over an hr and many tears. Yes, they were mine - the house comes with vague directions. Pop A into C while balancing G on your head. Or something like that. This was a mess. (and the other 100 (or so it seemed) pieces are on the floor)
Oh and please take note of the gorilla glue in the picture. Yeah, "no glue required" is seriously up for debate. This project was so frustrating I went straight for the big guns - gorilla glue. No messing around with elmers for me. It was time to get serious. For those who don't know much about the stuff ..... My mother and I used it to rebuild my kitchen drawers. It's liquid steel. Never met a substance it couldn't bond.
Until today. The gorilla got it's butt kicked by a "no glue required" pop together foam craft project. No matter what we did or how long we held it together - it came apart. Finally L threw In the towel and went outside to play. But I was driven. Will - not - be - beaten - by -craft. V is sleeping, L is playing and there I sit wrestling with glue and foam. Luckily there is no picture of that.
Fast forward an undetermined amount of time and I admit defeat and abandon the project.
And did I mention that V has a matching candy house? I think I am just giving her cash to get her to "forget about it". That's right, I bribe my children. It's all about survival out here on the golf course.
Funny - we bought one too (but it was an outdoor scene with a tree and fence). Yeh, no glue required and we used craft glue, and it still didn't really hold up. I couldn't find our gorilla glue...think you need a hot glue gun for one of those suckers! Needless to say we all had glue fingers.
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