Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Evil Thereof

[janedavitt]

Now I understand that phrase, oh, so well.

I'm not a very home-makery type of person. I decorate and it all looks kind of, well, homemade, but what the heck, I keep trying. So last year, I discovered these peel off, stick on things from Winners that you can keep moving around on a wall with no problem. L has some in her bedroom and they look great.

Winners had a Christmas themed one, so I got it and after a few minutes trying to piece together the individual branches to look like the picture, I handed the project over to Eleanor (far more artistic than me) and this was the pleasing, reusable, no mess result:



Flushed with success, I bought some more from Winners, this time mirrored reindeer. Excited, as snowflakes fluttered down, L and I experimented with them on a kitchen window. I put one on and said, hmm, maybe we can try it over --

It wouldn't come off. These were different, hard, not thin film, sticky not peelable. Thank God I put them on a window not a wall.

Panicking, I tried to get the reindeer off and broke his two front legs.

I'M SORRY, OKAY?

Realizing that I was going to need a blowtorch to remove them, or possibly just buy a new window, or never take them down, like the Christmas lights over the garage, I stuck the rest on as well. What the hell.

ETA I got the packaging out and read the instructions for removal (small letters, not visible from the outside.) It says 'Slowly and carefully remove mirrors from applied surface.'

That's it? ::boggles:;

Comments

[senmut]

Very pretty. Also, heat applied via a warm washcloth might help them come free.

[janedavitt]

They do look nicely seasonal. I will try that but it might have to be chip and scrape :-(

[ninetydegrees]

I'd try White Spirit.

[chalcopyrite]

Just what I was going to say!

[janedavitt]

Yes, that's a good idea ::nods:; Thanks!

[maab_connor]

it's pretty! if all else fails, come new year, Goo Gone should kill the adhesive.

[janedavitt]

Oh, we use that in the library! Good stuff :-)

[chalcopyrite]

They are very pretty, though, and so are the cardinals! :)

[janedavitt]

They are! I do like them.

[knitty_woman]

These look really nice - it helps that you've got the appropriate background. They wouldn't look quite the same cavorting among the palm trees here in southern California. :)

[janedavitt]

Heh, true! I have the real things out on my birdfeeder too :-)