The downside to crafting

So I am a very impatient person. Very impatient. Waiting 18 weeks to find out the sex of my babies (NO I AM NOT PREGNANT!!) was torture. I want what I want when I want it and the when is usually now. I cannot stand to order things because EVEN THOUGH said item would have been shipped to and have arrived by the time I actually find what I am looking for in a store, I cannot logically wait that long. Illogical, I know. So back to my downside of crafting. Perhaps I should have called this post Lesson #1. Maybe I should go back up and change the title. Nope. Too much effort and then this last grouping of sentences would have to be erased as well because they would no longer make sense. MOVING FORWARD.
OK so what day did I decorate the laundry room? Monday night? Was it Tuesday? Anyway, I hot glued that black ribbon to the frame of the mirror but wondered at its stability. Would the mirror fall? I made sure that nail went into a stud so that shouldn't happen. Boy what if it falls down in the middle of the night, breaks, and also sets off the glass break sensor thus causing the house alarm to go off, Jeff and I to wake up in a panic, and, oh, let's not go there. Mirror will be fine. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Next morning: I wake up and go about my business, with all these really cool ideas running around in my head about what I can make over in my house. Get the kids dressed, fed, we're off to take Jeff to the Park N Ride and as I start to unlock the back door, I see it. Flat on top of the white wire shelf, with about a third hanging over the open floor, is the mirror. One side of the ribbon has come unglued. Sigh. First of all, thank you Jesus for allowing that shelf to catch my mirror so I didn't have tiny feet running through shards of glass unbeknownst to their mamma. Secondly, how awful would it have been to have that totally awesome mirror break????? Tragedy avoided. So friends, one of two things happened. Either the mirror is too heavy to have used a hot glue gun, OR (and I'm sort of leaning this way) I didn't let the glue get hot enough. Because I am impatient and wanted that wall decorated now. Lucky for me, spray paint dries quickly in Texas. Truthfully, when I started attaching the ribbon, it wasn't as runny and gooey as glue should be. In fact, the first squirts of glue that I forced out were almost dry as soon as they landed on the frame. Usually a sign the glue isn't hot enough to use. Duh. So lesson learned (can't promise I won't repeat other time saving, er, impatient me actions) and this girl will be buying some Gorilla Glue tomorrow to fix that mirror once and for all.
Side Note: I have started the armoire. I am having a love/hate relationship with it right now. I am almost done the first step but I am not loving it yet. I am not hating it (as I was about 4 minutes into this project) but I'm not fully there yet. :/
We will see how this progresses and I'll show you the before, during, and after shots. I'll share all the guts and the glory (hopefully) with you when I'm done. In the meantime, lets just say that I have an armoire, minus the doors, sitting in my bedroom that looks like its shielding itself from an alien invasion. If you don't know what I am talking about, go watch M. Night Shyamalon's Signs.
I have a metallic-ish piece of furniture calling my name. But because no blogpost should be published without a picture (I totally feel obligated each time!!) I will leave you with this sweet brown eyed face.
Love. This. Boy.