Oh crafts!

A few months ago someone sent me an invite to a little website called Pinterest. I registered, looked around for about 10 min. and then decided that I would find time to play later. My account went un-visited for months. Until last week that is. For some random reason I decided to give it another shot and see what all the fuss was about. If you're not already a user, run, don't look back and try to forget you ever heard about this site. Because honestly, once you start, you can't stop. This is fine of course if you have self control and/or nothing else going on in your life. I however don't have time for this site, and somehow am always on it. You'll find me in about 10 years, single, with all parental rites stripped away. I'll have a written a memoir about how Pinterest ruined my life, cost me my marriage and my relationship with my children...It's that bad, folks.

But seriously, I can't stop creating. And I love it.

I recently finished/made this:

And this:

And this:

And those are just the finished products. I cut the legs off of an extra end piece of a spare crib we had to make a craft storage board in the basment. I'm in the process of finishing some other things too. And once those are done, I already have three or four more things in mind to start on.

It's amazing how great it feels to decorate your home with things that you created that don't look horrible. And it's all thanks to the ideas of others. I mean seriously! Who would have thought to use buttons to spell things on a canvas, or to paint over rubber bands stretched around a vase. There are some super clever people out there. Unfortunately I'm not one of them. But I do get to freely copy and take credit for duplicating said cleverness. Thanks Pinterest, for making me feel like the artist I'll never truly be! I owe you one.