My very first pinterest project (and why it's most likely my last)

Over Thanksgiving break, Spencer and I decided that we needed to add something to our long blank wall in our dining room area. Spencer was set on hanging a map so for the first time ever, I went on pinterest to look for ideas. I wanted to do this, but my poor non crafty brain had no idea where to start. I am a little ashamed to admit that I had to talk to three different friends to teach and coach me on these four simple steps:

1. Get a map

2. Cut it into thirds

3. Spray glue it to a dollar store foam board

4. Hang it

So there you have it, my first ever pinterest project!

Why this pinterest project will most likely be my last:

1. Spencer actually did about 90 percent of this project. I purchased the materials and helped measure the map into thirds, but when I started cutting, I got all OCD and critiqued every cut I made (yep, just from cutting with scissors) so I had Spencer do it but then I got all OCD again and critiqued every cut he made so to prevent us from both going crazy, I just left the room until he finished the entire thing. 

2. If you look really closely at it, it looks like a butchered 5th grade social studies project. 

3. This $20 map turned out to be a lot more expensive than that because when I finally hung the map, I wanted a new black friday clearance dining table to go with it, and once we bought that, I wanted fake flowers to put in the vase that has been in the back of my closet since we moved, and once I arranged the flowers in the vase, I wanted to rearrange the living room furniture, and after we rearranged the furniture, I wanted a new black Friday painting to put on our bare living room wall because I sure as heck was not about to get on pinterest again. So Merry Christmas to me! There really should be a new book to the series, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, entitled If You Give Annie a Pinterest Project.

4. Pinterest really stresses me out and "crafting" stresses me out even more than pinterest. Wait, have I already mentioned that before on this blog?