[so cheap, so easy]: Rope Ball

You know those diy's that you wish you had never started? The ones that end up costing way more than they're worth? The ones where you reach that pivotal moment where you can either throw it in the garbage or try buying one more thing hoping to salvage the dumb thing? Well, that pretty much sums up this one. Yes, it was one of those projects.  I'm calling it [so cheap, so easy]. Because it should have been. Buy some rope, and hot glue it to a ball. That's all there is to it. BUT, I made it about ten times harder (at least ten times). Here's the short version that really isn't even that short:

Bought 40 feet of black nylon rope for another project. (You actually need about 50 feet for this project.)
Said project was stupid and immediately scrapped.
Black rope ball? No, too easy.
Striped ball? Sure. 
Spray painted half of rope. (Seriously, who spray paints rope?)
Hot glued rope around ball.
Had to explain to two year old what I was doing with her ball.
Didn't like the stripes.
Painted the rope pink. Again. And again. And again to cover stripes.
Had to explain to two year old what I was doing with her ball.
Bought two year old a new ball.

Guess what. You can just buy pink rope. Actually, if I would have planned to make a rope ball in the first place, I would have just bought some neutral jute rope. That would have been super cute. And easy. And cheap. Oh well. At least this project is over, and I like it, or at least that's what I keep telling myself. Want to know the most ironic part of this project? The ball was pink to begin with.

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