Podge- what a great invention. Glue like substance that is thin enough to glaze photos but strong enough to hold the photo in place. I love podge but hate it at the same time. Podge is an addicting little craft. Hickchic and I spent a couple days in the summer podging scrapbooks for my sisters. We made a Johnny Depp book and a celebrity book. My sis KK loves Johnny.
Anyways, I decided to make the downstairs bathroom into a theme room. It's kind of a 50's theme but mainly Elvis. I love podge because it's so permanent, so easy to use and addicting. I love podge because it sticks to anything. Hickchic once told me that she was watching a TV show where a woman podged EVERYTHING including her kitchen furniture! She took podging to a whole new level.
So, I thought that I would podge the shelves in my bathroom. I thought it would be so cool to have an Elvis shelf. C'mon, do you know anyone else with an Elvis shelf or bathroom huh?Moving on, the reasons why I hate podge are:
- - when you brush the podge on, the pictures sometimes move, creating wrinkles in the photos
- - the podge is sticky. I hate sticky stuff. When I was little sticky hands used to make me cry. Now it just makes me whine.
- - the paint brushes you use for podge are hard to clean. After taking a semester of art, I still can't clean a paint brush properly.
My bathroom shelves are half finished because podging has done nothing except piss me off. I tried to podge a deck of Elvis playing cards on the shelf and it didn't work. The cards wrinkled and made a big mess. A complete waste of time. Now, I'm back to square one. Well, at least now I have a printer for my computer, so I can print off Elvis pictures via the internet.
Top Picture: My can of podge. Costs roughly $5.98 (Wal- Mart, that's why it's only 0.98 cents, not 0.99 or an even $1.00)
Bottom Picture: My shelf. Half finished. Aside from podge frustrating me, I get side tracked very easily.
Sorry, I know the pictures are sideways. I can't figure out how to rotate them.
I'll keep you posted on how the bathroom turns out, that's IF I ever finish the bathroom. Well, if I never finish the bathroom at least the Elvis curtain will be done. I did that first.
3 comments:
ah Podge. It's the only craft I can love. The only tool needed is a brush. Minimal cleanup time. Almost zero brainpower needed. And NO instructions!!!
but it makes me want to SCREAM when the pictures curl up.
Y'know, it's almost podge season again....!
Oh and i just had a memory of you crying because your hands were dirty. No care at all that they were all scraped up too; no care about the scrapes. Dirt! Wah!
Yeah. I hate when my hands are dirty. It's not so bad now but still it's yucky.
I agree, podge season is a-comin'and this year it's going to be brutal.
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