Stretching the Canvas

Please don't laugh, but I made my frame a bit too big.  :(

This is the painting, stretched onto the frame.  It looks great if you don't look closely.

I'm off by a half-inch on each side.  I was hoping to wrap the canvas around the frame so that the picture would have the "gallery wrapped canvas" look, which is considered more professional looking.  Basically, a "gallery wrapped canvas" means that the staples are on stapled onto the back of the frame and not on the side.  So, when a picture is hung, the staples don't show. 

This was how I wanted the painting to look like, withe the staples on the back.

 Unfortunately, I made my frame a bit too big and I had to staple the canvas on the sides, not on the back.  There are several ways to fix this so that my picture can have that gallery wrapped look (e.g. create a frame to put around the painting or I can rebuild another stretcher/frame and restretch the paiting), but at this point, I'm just too tired to care.  I'm okay with hanging it up and enjoying the painting for awhile.

This was how it turned out, with the staples showing on the side.  So sad!

It was not an epic fail, but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it too.  Oh well, I live and learn.

What have you done lately that wasn't an epic fail, but didn't turn out the way you wanted it too?