magnificent mugs

This weekend my friend came over to the apartment and my roommate and I decorated ceramic mugs with water-resistant paint pens. We also watched the Olympics while decorating, it was so much fun. We had gone to Hobby Lobby and (our new favorite store) And That! to get the supplies. We picked up 6 or 7 pens and then two mugs each. My roommate picked up an extra mug in case she made a mistake but we learned that nail polish remover got off the paint no problem! This craft was fool-proof. I found a quote on Pinterest that I liked a lot so for my first mug I tried my hardest to recreate that. My second mug I decided to copy a drawing of the Eiffel Tower from a stationary set I had and then draw Parisian apartment buildings around it. It turned out really nice.

Here is the quote mug:

And here is the Eiffel Tower mug:

I only bought one pen so I kept things pretty monochromatic and I liked the way it ended up looking. I was thinking about just using a black pen but my other roommate as a white mug with the same colored bronze-y gold color C and I thought the color looked so nice with the white mug. Maybe I have a future in mug design.
 
If we decide to make any more crafts I will post about them here! I know what I'm going to do for Valentine's Day for my roommates which should be pretty cool. If they end up looking nice I'll post a few pictures.

ALSO, I got 100% on my Italian quiz/test thing. My professor wrote "brava!!" on it. :-)

I hope everyone had a good start to the week,

Until next time,

Caroline

ps - the color on my nails is Audrey by Julep