"D" is for "Dear Mom...."

Dear Mom,

Don't look at this.

No, really.

I mean it.

You're not allowed to look.

I'm so serious.

Everything will be ruined if you look any further.

Stop.

Stop reading.

This is not okay.

You're making me look crazy.

I have reasons!

You can look later.

Probably.

Are you gone yet?

Because I'm going to start.

Like... now.

Ish.

You'd better have looked elsewhere.

Okay. #lastwarning

It's a Mostly Martha Moment. And by "mostly," I mean the rest of the stuff. "Moment" is really only appropriate for alliteration purposes because this is not the one. This moment is pretty devoid of Martha.

"D" was supposed to be for decoupage, but... I didn't think of anything good to decoupage, and everyone was really busy, and I was like, "Is there really enough Mod Podge in this bottle to make it through an entire decoupage project...?" and I just really didn't want to test it or spend extraneous money, so...

"D" is for duct tape. Here is my muse:

Also, my mother is being temporarily banned from this blog because I am using this project as my Mother's Day gift. I will skip over the details of the process, as the video above was my only teacher. The only thing I did differently was use these plastic green stems my mom brought home from work. I think maybe they were part of one of those fruit bouquet things.

I'm not really known for my photography skills.

Nevertheless, that's my project for the week. The tutorial video reminds me that the roses could do with some leaves, but I'm out of green, so I'll have to see what I can do about that. The vase is a wine bottle I found in the recycling bin and off of which I peeled the label. That was a separate project I did with my friend Maggie one night when she came over and our power inexplicably went out for five hours. The colorful stuff is melted Crayola crayon wax.

On a side note, I can't fit all of those stems into the tiny opening, and I don't quite know how to fix it. I might need to trim the fake thorns, somehow, but that would probably look terrible. Also they are plastic.