For the craft of the week, I decided to pick something 'easy' that didn't require too many supplies. Decoupage generally requires some magazine clippings and some glue, right? Once I got everything set-up, I realized that I also needed good scissors and a paint brush. Hmmm. I had dull, rusty scissors and my fingers. This was going to be interesting.Then there was the question of what to decoupage? Gareth was not keen on the idea of a nicely decoupaged kitchen table or even a colorful lampshade, so I was left with the old hot chocolate tin that we keep rice in. My plan was to decorate it in an Asian-inspired style featuring pictures of rice paddies and neutral colors. When I sat down with a collection of old National Geographics to look for images to clip out, Gareth nearly had a panic attack. “What are you doing!?!” he asked. “You can't cut up National Geographics! You're supposed to keep them on a shelf... for decades..and never look at them! This is sacrilege!”
“Oh,” I shrugged as I put them back on the shelf.
I was left with a Canadian
fashion magazine (oxymoron much?) and a middle-aged woman's magazine about aging, cooking comfort (read: fattening) foods and losing weight. After 10 minutes of paging through and finding nothing 'Asian' or rice- related save for a Chinese model in a trench coat, and cereal bars made from puffed rice, I decided to switch directions and cut out pretty patterns and textures instead.Spreading the glue with my fingers was an imprecise mess, cutting magazines with dull scissors was like cutting steak with a butter knife and I couldn't seem to get the images on the can without ripping them. But, I did it and now our guests won't get excited about drinking hot chocolate to find that we only have rice.
P.S. If you are decoupaging a container you keep rice in, empty the rice out first or at least leave the cap on the container. This is especially important when there is glue all over your hands and the table. Just saying...
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