do you pinterest?

have you heard about pinterest?  it is, far and away, one of the most inspiring websites i've been on.  from food to fashion to crafts and kid stuff, everywhere you look you find ideas for things you can do.  i don't think i've drawn or crafted or cooked this much ever before, and most of it is directly attributed to the awesomeness of pinterest.  word of warning though: it is a complete time suck.  you start off just taking a look at a new pin, and suddenly your children are in college... or something like that.


one of my first pinterest inspirations to materialize was a gift for our wonderful friend's son.  he was having his third birthday, and being the boy that he is, is very into all things cars.  he had a car themed party, is obsessed with the cars movies, the whole nine yards.  when i stumbled upon a very neat picture idea on pinterest, that incorporated cars, i was hooked!


unfortunately it took me two attempts to make, and i'm not 100% sold on the version that i presented to "N" for his birthday.  there is a third-time's-the-charm in the future for me for this project.  basically, i used "N", for that is what the dear birthday boy's name started with, painted it to look like a road, then hot glued some matchbox cars onto the road.  throw in having a friend who works at michael's and got me an awesome frame, and we had a lovely piece of wall art.  yay!

my husband, being the awesome creative person that he is, decided he wanted to make the cupcakes for "N" too.  he found some very neat lightning mcqueen cupcakes to make and did a fantastic job.

so today wasn't about sketching, but it sure was about creativity... and pinterest... and cupcakes...  and that makes me happy.