A DIY Fail

You will remember a few months ago I posted about how much I wanted these

For myself and my bridesmaids on the morning of the wedding. I have researched and researched and they are so expensive.

SO the bestest and I have started a weekly crafting/pilates night to actually complete all of the random crafts we both pin on Pinterest, and we decided to make this our project a few weeks ago. We Googled tutorials and found plenty that promised this was an easy craft, fully fooling ourselves that it was doable.

We ran out and got all of the tools

and began twisting and forming the wires just like the tutorials said...which resulted in this disaster

Granted the bestest was a but better than me...

...she at least got a full word before she gave up.

Needless to say these have been properly disposed off.

My crafting lessons for the week:

* Just because a tutorial swears that something is easy, does not mean that it is
* Bending wire is probably the most frustrating task on earth
* When new to crafting start with a simple, fool proof task for the sake of your own confidence
* ALWAYS but just enough for a test
* Sometimes buying it from a qualified professional is the better option

Mrs. Hangers

I'm absolutely in love with these


I have seen them in a few places while wedding planning and I really, really want one. The problem is they aren't exactly cheap.

So, me being all ambitious figured I would Google how to do it myself.

I should add a disclaimer at this point. I'm not what you would call a do it yourselfer. I much prefer someone to do it for me. I start out all ambitious and then it doesn't turn out quite how I imagined which causes disappointment and eventual quitting.

BUT I really want one. And from what I hear they are actually pretty easy to do, so I'm thinking I might give it a shot (I'm sure this is going to provide hours of amusement for Chris).

Did you have a name hanger? Did you make it? Was it hard?