Pinterest Challenge: Sharpie Mug

Yes, the Mister, bug, and I survived the hurricane last night and somehow made it through without losing our power.  Phew!  The damage around the area seems pretty minimal, but I haven’t really been out enough to say.

Since we were holed up in Casa Post Grad for a bit after returning from Minnesota for our friends’ wedding, I had a little time to work on a Pinterest Challenge project.  For anyone unfamiliar, a few big-time bloggers host a Pinterest Challenge every season to get people to stop just randomly pinning projects and never actually getting around to doing them.  It can be food, craft, furniture, etc., but basically – if you pinned it, make it.  And then share how it turned out.

So something I’ve been seeing around Pinterest lately is the new Sharpie mug project.  Take a mug, write/doodle/whatever on it with a Sharpie, and then bake it at 350 for 30 minutes – voila! awesome new personal mug.  I actually did this project earlier for the bride this weekend, but I did another one at home during the storm which turned out to be fairly entertaining.

As the Mister and I are big fans of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, I thought it would be appropriate to make one that said:

HOME

—> is <—

WHEREVER

I’m with

you.

Since there were going to be 5 lines, I figured it made the most since to start in the middle with WHEREVER and work my way out so that everything ended up even.  I even used tape as a guide to make sure my handwriting was fairly straight.  Two letters in and I fell over on the floor with a devastated “Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

Apparently, I can’t spell.

After much laughing and necessary instagramming/public shaming, we started trying to figure out how I could salvage this project.  Luckily the wind started whipping around as Sandy started to make her way towards us and I was suddenly inspired.

All in all, this is a super easy project as long as you don’t mind your own handwriting.  Free-handing can get a little sloppy.  I think this’ll definitely be a Christmas present project though.  If you’re looking for cheap mugs, you can buy them individually from Walmart and IKEA.