Name: Morgan C
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorganBenet
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/84231455500456086/
What I Did: The recipe and directions looked simple enough – the next thing I know there’s a little smoke coming from my oven and mine turned out like you see. Did I still eat them – yes 
The icing was delicious.
My Result:
Next Time I Will: I would just eat the icing straight from the mixing bowl
Name: Fritha Strickland
My Blog: http://www.tigerlillyquinn.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tigerlillyquinn
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/124763852146737236/
What I Did: I wanted to reuse old crayons and turn them into new ones for my son. I set the oven to Centigrade instead of Fahrenheit and almost burnt down the house in three minutes.
Blog Post Detailing The Experience: http://www.tigerlillyquinn.com/2013/05/how-to-almost-burn-down-your-kitchen.html
My Result:
Next Time I Will: I wouldn’t have set the oven so high but I will never do this craft again. I was lucky not to burn the house down!
Name: Elizabeth Christy
My Blog: http://potomacfallsmama.blogspot.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/elizmchristy
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/168040629816288956/
What I Did: I have a 3 year old son who loves to play outside. The homemade sidewalk chalk project seemed like a fabulous and fun idea. I followed the directions exactly as specified, but it went horribly, horribly wrong. The mix was gloppy and while mixing it, I ended up splashing the goopy mixture in my eyes at least 3 times. It also splashed on the floor, furniture and my son. The wax paper bunched up and my chalk dried twisted and snake-like. Most of it came out broken. To make matters worse, my son didn’t enjoy the project so he spent the time crying and knocking over cups of paint. What a mess! On a positive note, he was excited when the chalk was dry, and it works, although its a bit crumbly
My Result:
Next Time I Will: I might try skipping the wax paper and just using the carboard tubes, or coating the tubes in non-stick spray instead of paper. I would also put a big warning about splashing hazards!
Name: CUVRR
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/301530137521745917/
What I Did: We thought these glow in the dark mason jars would be perfect for an upcoming outdoor party. The instructions looked so easy – glowstick, glitter, shake. BAM. Glow in the dark magic, right? Not so much. Unless you plan to dump about 40 glowsticks into your mason jar you’ll have a pretty pathetic amount of glowstick goo in there. We put in 2 glowsticks, the glitter, and then decided to fill it up with water.
It glowed, but barely. & it did NOT look like the pictures.
My Result:
Next Time I Will: Next time try glow in the dark paint?
Name: Melissa
My Blog: ShoestringMag.com & DIY Boston/Boston.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stealfinder
Original Inspiration: http://www.sheknows.com/food-and-recipes/cinco-de-mayo-pinata-cookies-gallery/pinata-photo-gallery
What I Did: Last year, the week before Cinco de Mayo, I decided it would be cool to try making a popular Pinterest project that had been circulating like wildfire: pinata sugar cookies. Not only did they turn out to be the most labor intensive recipe I’ve ever tackled, after 4 hours of work I barely even had useable dough. My colors were all off (the black dough looked purple, to start) and I ran out of time/steam to even finish the cookies.
Blog Post Detailing The Experience: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/blogs/diyboston/2013/05/when_pinterest_fails_cinco_de_mayo_pinata_cookies.html
My Result:
Next Time I Will: I’m no baker, but I do love to cook and am pretty damn good in the kitchen, thank-you-very-much. Sure, the recipe looked like a lot of work and had a lot of steps, but I thought to myself: “No sweat, I got this.” Nope, I didn’t have it. Like, AT ALL. If I ever tried this again, I would recruit a small army of helpers (including some kids who would find the dough dyeing super fun, which I clearly did not) and would buy the exact individual food coloring bottles, versus trying to mix my own!
Name: Jessica
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/97108935687818786/
What I Did: I don’t know. I cut the tape into a chevron print. I painted all my nails China Glaze White on White first. Allowed them to dry. Then I laid the chevron print stencil in place and painted over it as in the example. After it dried and I peeled it off it did not look as the picture. The paint itself had dried over the stencil as if the stencil was part of my nail and in pulling the stencil off it nearly ruined the entire nail.
My Result:
Next Time I Will: Next time I will have a nail technician do my nails. I worked on this for hours and it was annoying.
Name: morganator993
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/123356477266007309/
What I Did: This was a disaster!!! Maybe it would have worked better if my hair was longer…but probably not!
My Result:
Name: Bridget
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/115404809173544648/
What I Did: I love caramel apples so I thought I would try to make them on my own! As you can see that didn’t go as planned.
My Result:
Next Time I Will: I don’t think I’ll be trying this again
Name: The Pin Junkie
My Blog: http://www.thepinjunkie.com/
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/70720656618107564/
What I Did: Just put the dirty grates in the bag with 1/4 cup ammonia. It won’t look like that’s enough, but it is. It’s the ammonia fumes that are going to clean this gunk off for you. Seal up the bags and let them sit for several hours. I let them sit overnight and I put them outside because I didn’t want to smell any ammonia. Using rubber gloves so that the ammonia doesn’t get on your skin, remove the grates from the bags. Rinse off the grates in the sink to get rid of the ammonia and wipe with a sponge. That gunk will wipe right off!
Blog Post Detailing The Experience: http://www.thepinjunkie.com/2013/02/how-to-clean-your-stove-easy-way.html
My Result:
Name: Laura
Twitter: twitter.com/laurapickart
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/175570085445698685/
What I Did: I thought this would be a great alternative to puffy painting over a dozen shirts for a Bachelorette Party. Right? Not so much. 1) the bleach bled WAY further than I thought. 2) Apparently the pink shirt I chose doesn’t bleach to white, but a slightly lighter pink, even though I left it on for 23 minutes (longer than recommended). 3) I chose a design and font that while adorable, doesn’t convert to bleach.
*It’s supposed to say “Jenny’s Bachelorette Party” with the date 04.27 and a big diamond ring
At least I still had the iron-ons for the bridal party, and the receipt for the rest of the shirts–so I only ruined one!
My Result:
Next Time I Will: We decided that this project only works under the same conditions as the blogger used originally–giant letters, giant images on pastel colored clothes.
