project failure

Today I sort of got carried away with a project rather than get real work done. See, I went to Michael's to get something I needed, and ended up getting this really great idea for a Valentine's gift for my man. I bought this iron-on printer paper which turned out to really suck. Not sure if it's just me or what, but the ink bled *really bad* so that my really awesome art is pretty much unintelligible. I'm pretty disappointed, since I was so excited about this plan. The only thing I can think of to solve the problem would be maybe to not use such small art, but even then I think the quality would still be bad. I knew that stuff was too good to be true!
What I'd really been looking for was iron on letters (which they had) but I want *really small* iron on letters, like 12 pt. That was not to be found, and I'm sure they'd be a pain in the ass to work with even if they'd been available. This transfer paper seemed like the perfect solution. Oh well.

Oh, and speaking of Michael's: Talk about disappointing to see that they have a whole freaking wall of birdhouses, ready-made, just waiting to be embellished. I don't know why I bother with the *struggle* of putting together these silly things, when you can buy one for next to nothing.
And another Michael's-related rant: Am I the only person who has a love-hate relationship with scrapbooking materials? Like, I LOVE the beautiful patterns, and awesome little doo-dads that are all coordinated and so pretty without any effort, but I hate the fact that people buy this crap and think they're *creating* something when they use it. Sorry ladies, it seems to me the creativity part was done for you. But you are using your glue & scissors exceptionally well, so good on you! So yeah, I get all gooey, like I want all this fun, pretty stuff, but then I get angry at myself and think that really what I should be doing is applying for jobs at the scrapbooking factory. I want to make that stuff!