reality of crafting

Sometimes I get a rep' for crafting. Don't get me wrong, I do craft and like it. But I really am not that great at it. And I'm not saying that to get everyone to comment like, no Sus, you're great! I'm just saying I always have a vision, and chances are the results are just a lil off, and that's okay.

I really do enjoy seeing other people be great at things, and if there was an Olympics of crafting, I would be in the front row, cheering them on. In the mean time, I will just stalk blogs and websites like pinterest.com and craftgawker.com (thanks Adrienne!). As I admire though, there's always that sense of like, how do they do that? And where is the mess and the mess-ups? Like the blooper reel of crafting blogs.

Well over here in Suzz News, I like to be real with my faithful followers. I was working on some layered valentine cakes with a friend, and we were doing pretty well, trying to make the cakes look like conversation hearts, but I am just not great at icing cakes and using those small gel icing tubes. Some looked okay:

And then one that was supposed to look like an OWL turned into the world's scariest looking bear clown. I took a picture and threw it away out of sheer horror.

So there you guy a colossal mess up. Feels good to get that off my chest.