Craft Disaster, Two button Bowl

I like making things. I had seen a photo of a bowl made out of buttons. It did not have very good instructions. I thought I could make it  by myself. 

So I blew up a balloon, put glue all over it and started putting buttons on. I thought that will work right? And then pop the balloon at the end when all the glue is dry. WRONG! 

All the button's ended up falling off. I had a huge mess. And ended up with a clear floppy bowl, made of glue. With two button's on it.