Pinterest Fail :: Wine Cork Monogram

GUYS. I worked so hard on this stupid pinterest project + I cannot make it work. So I'm going to show you a bunch of really pretty pictures of the progress, then a picture of how it fell apart. Get ready.

Oh, it's so simple the blogs on Pinterest said, just hot glue the corks together! you can use a wooden letter as a stencil, but they'll all stay together! So, coffee + hot glue gun in hand, the first thing I do is line my corks up on the letter "P" I picked up from Michael's.. then I took an artsy picture, obviously. PS. can you tell I grabbed a white, wrinkled sheet from the linen closet as my backdrop? I promise I did all of my actual work on some newspapers, not on the fancy sheet at my parents' house...

After I've lined them all up, I start gluing them together. I start at the bottom, you know, because that seems the best place to start. This gives me a false hope. 

 

I even painted my nails for this project in case my hands got in a picture. #prepared

so we keep on gluing. The wheels in my head are turning "man, people on Pinterest love wine cork projects. I bet this will make a kickass blog post. It's going to get shared everywhere. I'm going to be Pinterest famous + then maybe people will give me free wine! I should take some cool pictures to prove that I'm a legit blogger + you should give me free wine for more cork projects" -- my actual thought process that led to a bunch of pictures like this:

so artsy, so many potential pins. 

Oh look! I'm done! All glued together! An entire letter P! Hey, we drink a lot of red wine..

Oh, this was so simple! Thanks Pinterest, now it'll just stand up all on it's own! THAT. IS. A. LIE. Maybe if you're making a letter L or I or something that doesn't have any kind of shape to it. Those are actually the only two I can think of. Anyways. It's not a good plan for a fun curvy letter like P. THAT. IS. A. LIE. Maybe if you're making a letter L or I or something that doesn't have any kind of shape to it. Those are actually the only two I can think of. Anyways. It's not a good plan for a fun curvy letter like P. The SECOND I picked that up, it fell apart in these places (before you ask, yes. I let the glue dry. I'm not new here.)

It has actually fallen apart so much now to where you can't even tell it was a "P" -- so whatever these other chicks are doing -- it's not just casually using hot glue. I have burnt fingers AND NOTHING BUT THIS BLOG POST TO SHOW FOR IT. What do you think? Do you have any pinterest disaster stories?