I have decided to join the ranks of crafting blogs, at least until I change my mind. I looooove checking out Pinterest and Google for new crafting ideas, so my hope is to document both original pins or posts I am using as inspiration as well as my results - good, bad, or otherwise. 

With that being said, today's inspiration began with the desire to create a window cling for my front door that goes high enough for Charlie not to be able to see through. He feels it is his right and duty to suddenly and loudly let us know when someone is on our street. 

Could I buy window clings? Sure. But where would the fun in that be? On that note, I found a pin that led me to a post about DIY Holiday Window Clings on The Polka Dotted Turtle (fun name!) that specified how the blogger and her family made some fun patriotic (if you're in the USA, which I am) window clings. 

She used glue, dish soap, and food coloring. As any good crafter should, I easily found these supplies. I spent a little time online looking for a design to use, but I quickly decided the ones I found were too intricate for what promises to be messy and not precise at all. I made a simple design in Pages and printed off 6 templates, which I then taped under wax paper. 

My house is yellow and the front door is an adobe-ish color of orange, so it was decided to attempt yellow and orange ... but the yellow was transparent, which would defeat the purpose of thwarting my darling Charlie's love of startling us with updates on our neighborhood, so we decided to try orange and white. 

Obviously we didn't wait for the food coloring to work through the glue as instructed but I do like the fluidity of the colors (I apologize for the awful pic - so it goes). My thinking was the blue parts will be what we do white, and if it turned out we would put them up on the door when dry. 

Well, that didn't work. The glue is really runny and I sincerely doubt it will be opaque even if we do 6 coats ... so it looks like I will be stopping by the store later. 

The good part about this is I had fun trying something new-to-me with DD and a friend of hers, and I think they did too. Things don't always turn out the way we think they will, and that isn't necessarily bad.