Artful Alterations

Recently I've been attempting to tap into my creative side.   To avoid the overwhelming anxiety triggered by the sterile,white stare of a blank canvas,  I've been buying thrift store artwork:

and spicing it up with a manageable amount of semi-original, artistic effort:

My uber-competitive fiance can't resist the competition.  He unleashed his artistic side and branded our cutting boards with these beautiful, firework-shaped flower patterns...

...they just happen to be in the same shape as the stove-top burners....

I will leave it up to you to decide whether he meant to do this......(twice).