It was a Pinteresting year

The past 18 weeks have been very busy.  As you may know, if you have read previous posts, I have been busy teaching video game and web design to middle school children.  I will share more of my experience and thoughts about teaching this subject in another post.
What I would like to address in this final post of the year is my obsession with Pinerest.com. This obsession began just before I started teaching.  And to be honest, if I was not teaching I think I would be trying everything I've pinned on pinterest.  However, since time is limited, I have only been able to try out a few of the wonderful things that I've pinned.
Here are the things that I've tried (some pictures  are yet to come.  some I did not take pictures of, sadly)
1 My first pinterest project was a knitting cake for my sister's birthday!
Here's Mine and my mom's cake

Here is the pinterest inspiration:

2. Wire Organizer using tp rolls BRILLIANT!
Here's mine

Here's the pinterest inspiration

3. Balloon Garland


here's the inspiration

5.So I had to try and make this centerpiece. I figured why not!? I have branches all I needed was some silver metallic spray paint and a bag of mylar shreddings. So here it is! This was not easy to photography. It looked much nicer in person, trust me.



here's the inspiration

Ok so mine needs a little work...
5.Chocolate covered marshmallow pops.  I cover some with graham cracker crumbs, some with coconut shavings, and some with colored sprinkles.  Picture is not so good because I wrapped them in clear wrapping before taking the picture.  But they tasted good!


Here's the inspiration

6.Taping shipping boxes together(recycled ones) to use for classroom papers. I love this one. I have to take a picture of mine when I get back to school. I covered mine with neon green duct tape. This is a great one!
here's the inspiration


7. I did a pumpkin centerpiece for Thanksgiving. It turned out really nice but I can't find the picture. I may have deleted it off my camera before saving:)
Here's the inspiration

This was very easy to do and looked great. Would have been very expensive if I bought it at the florist.
8. Mini Grilled cheese and tomato soup. My chef husband made these as a light snack on Thanksgiving day before Dinner. He used a long thin french beard. It was perfect for little sandwiches for dunking in the soup. No pictures but
Here's the inspiration

9. Crayon Painting




 Here's the inspiration

10. I made this broccoli salad
Here's the inspiration

11. I made these cute acorns on Thanksgiving. Don't think I'll do them again. It was a lot of work and not really worth it. Fun to do it once but that's it. And the individual ingredients added up to a big expense.
Here's the inspiration

12/ One final project is this corkboard on the inside of the kitchen cabinets. I haven't done it yet but I have the cork just have to get some temporary adhesive.
Here's the inspiration


Thank you pinterest for all of the wornderful inspiration and all of the talent and generous contributors!
I can't wait to try more creative ideas in 2012!