Cook a Mug

Something so simple, who would've thought! A lot of people, that's who. Anyways, I had to try it. How could a person not want to get a mug from the dollar store, and decorate it how ever they want? What a great gift--kids can do it for grandparents, a personalize it to give to a host, or a gift to send your deployed husband (me!). What you will need:

• Sharpie (or Sharpies)
• Mug, plate, bowl....
• An oven!

Use your Imagination. Look online at pictures. Create whatever your would like not matter how complex or simple. Its like pottery painting with permanent markers! 

Once you are done with your creation, cook it in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes. Once you are done, turn the oven off, but don't open it. Leave your item(s) in the oven to cool. 

I forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but you get the gist! Fun!

I also created plates for my husband's 30th birthday, and it was such an easy project for a cheap price, but it looked so fancy! So fun. And if you DON'T like what you colored with the permanent marker, it scrubs off (before baking). Always, always, always, have fun!

Success or Failure.

I heard a quote today that said "Success is Scarier than Failure." I completely agree. And I am using it as an excuse as to why I haven't written on my blog in a while. Run with it....

Some more fun success/failure quotes:

"Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved" 

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." 

-Bill Cosby

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

-Bruce Lee

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

-Winston Churchill

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

-Abraham Lincoln 

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Success is to be measured - not so much by the position that we have reached in life - as by the obstacles that we have overcome while trying to succeed.   - Booker T. Washington

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.   - Dottie Walters

"Those that say they never got a chance never took one."

"No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings."   

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, but as the attitude you bring to life."   - John Homer Miller