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    Published: Jul 28, 2014 · Modified: Jan 24, 2021 by Rachel

    Failures in Creativity

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    In a world of beautiful blogs, perfect pinterest pictures, and spectacular crafts, perfection is a hard image to uphold. I don’t plan to either. I have craft and food fails too…a lot. I actually appreciate the failures, they make for great stories.

    Just Not Cute

    Like these sprinkle rimmed glasses I was making for chocolate martinis. I was a bartender in a former life, so this should be easy, right? Hint: You need a ton of extra sprinkles to make this work. And they must be the tiny, tiny ones. Or your glasses will end up pretty pathetic.

    Deflated Cake

    Deflated lemon blueberry streusel cake in glass baking dish on light gray surface.

    File this lemon blueberry loaf under volcanic baking fail. Someone may have tried to substitute white sugar for brown in the crumb topping because the brown sugar was at the other house. Wasn’t my finest, but I could live with that.

    After taking a decent picture, I put a knife in it and it literally deflated like a balloon. My baking confidence crushed along with it.

    There is something about blueberries this year, because I have failed every recipe with them, even muffins I have made perfectly half a dozen times.

    I Just Can’t Unsee It

    Poorly plated omelet on white plate beside two watermelon wedges on light counter.

    Words cannot describe how delicious this  zucchini, mushroom, bacon, cheddar omelet is. But every time I see this picture, I think my omelet is sticking its tongue out at me, under a mustache. Just gross.

    Pillow Covers That Take 4 hours to Make

    White DIY cased pillow with metal snaps on the side with two soft green pillows in background.

    I tried to reinvent pillow covers and sew snaps on so I could wash the pillow cover. I was even going to make four of these babies! 3 hours of hand sewing tiny snaps before I gave up. That was ONE PILLOW! This one goes under learning experience, because I improved and made my bolster pillow from a pillow case (in about an hour).

    So this is about ½ of my failures and not even the worst ones. Just the ones I actually photographed instead of throwing an all out ugly face tear fest. Failures are part of life and, at least, I (mostly) learned something, right?

    Here’s to hoping for more success!

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    1. Julia@Happy House and Home says

      August 08, 2014 at 3:56 pm

      5 stars
      LOL – to make a list of my failures would probably take me the better part of a day! This is a great idea for a post! Glad to have you on Merry Monday! Julia

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    2. Lauren @ Bless'er House says

      August 05, 2014 at 10:41 am

      5 stars
      Oh my goodness I can totally relate! I’ve had some EPIC fails, but without the failures we wouldn’t learn, right? I would have never even thought about that omelet having a mustache and a tongue. Still looks good to me though. 🙂

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      • Rachel says

        August 06, 2014 at 8:46 am

        Thanks Lauren. I really do appreciate the failures, albeit in hindsight, lol. You are right that without failures, it wouldn’t be as fun when we feel success. The omelet was delicious. I know I can be picky, but I just can’t stop looking at it. Thank goodness I didn’t notice until after it was eaten. Zucchini, mushroom, bacon omelet will always be my absolute favorite.

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