Art for Love

My boyfriend and I have a different way of going about Valentine's Day each year. We celebrate by making each other a gift and we each provide part of the meal. Generally, I paint something for him and I plan to do the same thing this year, too. I have a few ideas rolling around, but I'm not sure what I'm going with yet. I might draw us in the style of some of our favorite comics, like MS Paint Adventures or Girls with Slingshots. We'll have to see where I go with this. Ultimately though, this is about having fun while making the gift for the other person and showing your love.

The follow-up dinner will likely be homemade spaghetti from him and I am going to be making cupcakes as I've done a couple times for this holiday before. This year when I was at Walmart, I was looking through the seasonal section and they had the usual cutesy V-Day related stuff like red velvet mixes and pearly foils, but then I saw the one thing to make this the most awesome cupcakes ever!

Candy eyeballs! They have flat bottoms and are entirely edible. They aren't googly since the black spot is just a sugar spot, but they are still so cute. This means my boyfriend is getting MONSTER CUPCAKES! Probably mostly in 2 colors since I don't want to buy a bunch of colors for just a dozen or so cupcakes, but that might look more cohesive anyway. 

So what says romance? Clearly nerdiness and monsters.