Accept the Challenge

Have you guys heard about the Pinterest challenge?  I’m oh so excited!  It’s a challenge to actually make something inspired by our pins on Pinterest, issued by my favorite bloggers Young House Love.  You can check out their post here for more information.

I’ve participated in the challenge twice before.  The first time I made a bow dress.

And for the fall Pinterest challenge, I made a lace cowl from an old curtain.

So as soon as I saw that it was challenge time again, my mind starting spinning.  And, sadly, I threw myself a pity party.  This summer has been kind of crazy for our finances, so we’re currently spending as little as we can.  That means no extra money for supplies for a super awesome Pinterest diy.

I was being all grouchy, mourning the fact that I couldn’t go out and buy some zip ties and a lamp shade frame, when Timothy came in.

His first response was, “Don’t we have something around here that you can just take apart and make something out of it?”  Ha!  I love his definition of diy.

But that did knock a little bit more sense into me.  Pretty much all of the diys I’ve di – done have been motivated by a lack of money and a surplus of inspiration.  While I started thinking of things around the house I could tweak, Timothy’s brain was churning.

“Babe, could I find something I wanted and then pin it and then you pin it from me and then make it?  Because that would be awesome.”

And then he proceeded to spit out a whole bunch of things he wanted me to make for him.  Umm, where were all these ideas at Christmas time?

But little did he know, I’ve already pinned something along the lines of what he’s wanting.  Muahahaha.  So we’ll see how it goes.  The challenge is over on Tuesday, so you can check back then to see the outcome.

Are any of you participating in this challenge?  What are some pins that have been inspiring you lately?

~Whitney