You are not alone~
I am here with you~
Are you my little- Wah!
Well hello again, internet! It's me. Corinne.
UGH! "Where's Rob?"
And you're watching Corinne VS Pin.
Today's project is Super Exciting.
A, because it is an OG Pinterest legend
And B, it's something I've secretly been coveting
Since I saw it. On the good old internets.
That's right, today, I'm making a moss bath mat.
*explosion noise* *mind blown*
And I'm gonna get lots of help from my special little helper!
Kitties!
Alright.
Little kitty f**ker
Hey. Kitty. Psst. In the shot.
I'm gonna have to evict you from the room.
All right, all right...
*door slamming* Haha ha!
Not only has this project been suggested thousands of times
but I am also slowly turning my bathroom into a fairy forest oasis!
so this will fit right in to the craziness.
Let's get started, shall we?
Okay, so I have a pretty good idea on how these things are made but I figured it
would behoove me to do a little research first and the first blog that I came
across was this one
it has a ton of great pointers but as I continued reading
I slowly started to realize that the writer of this blog has never actually
made a f**king moss bath mat.
What the hell, buddy.
That's all right, though, because these projects are my specialty.
Raindrop cake?
No.
Still not over that one.
Moss bath mat?
Right up my alley
It's not a good saying.
So the first thing I had to do was procure some high-density foam
which was not that easy to be honest, especially since the stupid blog post
points to this stuff on amazon which is not the right freakin color.
So, that's not going to work for me, all right?
After an extensive amount of research though, I found this stuff from Foamart.com
Go figure. I also ordered the moss online.
I guess I could have gone out into the forest and collected my own but
it's hot outside and I'm afraid of ticks.
So there's that. The only problem with ordering the stuff on the internet is that
I had to wait two weeks for it. I want my stuff now Internet!
Instant gratification! When are 3d printers going to be able to print moss?
But it was an exciting day when it finally came in the mail, though.
Moss~
Have any funny moss jokes?
No más.
All right we're ready to get this party started.
All you gotta do is unwrap the foam
and I just don't understand why it's so heavily packaged.
It took me 20 f**king minutes to try to get the sh** out here. It's foam.
It doesn't need that much protection.
It is the protection!
I don't understand.
Moving right along. I am very happy with the quality of the foam, though.
I think this is gonna work out real well.
Next I got out some cardboard and drew out a rough shape of what I want my mat to look like.
And it took me a few times because I messed up the first couple times
and it looked like crap.
Also I have the least helpful assistant in the world.
Slowing me down, Kitty.
It's also not very easy to cut things out of cardboard.
Even with an exacto knife, this sh*t took forever.
I think this is actually the hardest part of the project.
It did, however, come out pretty good so I guess it was worth it.
Thanks for all the help, Kitty.
Next I traced the two outlines onto my foam
with a Sharpie.
This worked out pretty well, too. Good job, team.
Then I tried to cut out the shapes
with the same exacto blade that I used for the cardboard and this did not work.
Maybe some scissors will work? No, no, no, definitely not.
Makes the edges all wonky looking and I can't have that-
because I'm crazy,
and I need it to be perfect.
So I found this exacto blade and you know what, it worked a sh** ton better.
Thank goodness because I was about to pack it all in and give up.
We did it, Kitty!
This next part, though, is going to be a little challenging, I think.
Okay so the moss comes mailed to all dried out, which was a little scary.
I was afraid it was dead, but this piece of paper that comes in the moss box
tells you to abandon everything you think you know about plants because
moss doesn't have roots.
Yeah, some freaky alien sh*t right there.
Anyway, yeah so what I'm going to do is use the dried out pieces of moss as the actual
outlines for the shape that i'm going to cut out of the foam.
And then after I cut the shape out of the foam,
I put that piece of moss on top of it so I know what goes where
when we're all ready to put the moss in the mat. F*ckin genius. It's like a puzzle.
Riddle me this Batman.
After 3 hours, yeah 3 hours, I was finally done cutting all my little shapes out of the foam,
and you know what I feel like a freaking champion.
*singing* We are the champions my friends~
Boom Boom Boom
By the way, Republicans, not okay for you use that song in your little convention.
I think it looks pretty dang cool already.
Next I did something really dumb
and sprayed this layer of foam with some spray adhesive and I failed to open a window.
Probably should have done it outside and now this room has to be evacuated for
awhile because the fumes might kill me.
And the Kitty.
It did however really help with the positioning of things.
I also went around all the edges with a hot glue gun for added security!
Looking good huh, Kitty? Yeah, no thanks to you bud.
Now the real fun begins.
I also got this stuff from the same company that I ordered the moss from.
And what I have to do is sprinkle a little bit in one of the sections and
then take the corresponding piece of moss
and submerge it for about 10 seconds into a bucket of water.
This apparently reactivates the moss.
Alien sh*t.
Okay, then I just have to spray the moss tack with a little bit of water
and then press the moss piece down into that section.
And voila! F*cking awesome!
Now I just have to repeat those steps about a billion more times.
Yes, it takes quite a bit of work, and patience, and definitely lots of time.
~time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin into the future~
Meow meow, meow, meow, meow meow~!
Pfft!
And my fu**kin assistant totally gave up on me.
What the hell, Kitty?
At least Tim Riggins is there for me.
This project, up to this point, has taken ten episodes of Friday Night Lights.
That's a long f*cking time.
And by the way this may or may not be the fourth time I've watched the series.
Call me, Tim.
I did it, though. I did it. No thanks to you, Kitty. And actually I think this
thing looks f**kin awesome. I'm very excited about how this turned out.
Pretty proud of myself.
Yes! There you go. Congratulations.
Yeah, that's me patting myself on the back. Somebody's got to do it.
Now I just have to put it in its new home.
And yes! This thing rocks.
You know, like, moss likes rocks?
It's okay.
Yeah, okay. So this thing apparently is supposed to be able to survive just on
the water that you shed from getting out of the shower, but I don't think I shower
enough for that to be the case.
So I think that I'm gonna have to give it some extra squirts here and there and
that means that it may not survive, to be honest.
I'm also just a little concerned that my cat is going to
destroy it or die from eating it. Is this stuff poisonous to cats? And then there is a concern
about bugs living in it? Yeah, that's concerning. But it's so freaking pretty, right?!
Who cares?
Sorry Kitty! Just kitty-ing. You know I love you. Well I think that's it for this week.
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