Pinning it on Pinterest #4

****RECIPE & FOOD IDEAS ADDITION****

I have been on Pinterest for a few weeks now. I don't know about all of you, but I have come across SO MANY yummy recipes and food tricks. They all sound so delicious! I seriously want to try all of them out!! I decided that this weeks post was going to be a special addition for recipes and food ideas that I have found. Here we go...

This looks amazing for breakfast! It is a super easy French Toast Bake. I will be trying this out one morning very soon. YUM!!

Source: Rach's Blog

Pinned HERE

Look how fun this is!!! These are Cake Batter Pancakes! I don't know about you, but I LOVE cake batter! This would be so fun to make the morning of a birthday or special occasion or just to start your day out right:) 

Source: Quick Dish

Pinned HERE

I was really curious about this one. It is called a Pizza Casserole. It looks and sounds yummy, right!?! So I just had to go check it out. I wondered what it was going to be made out of. I was very surprised to find that it is a Pizza PASTA Casserole! I did not expect to find pasta in it! I am totally going to make this very soon! Sounds Delish!! 

Source: For Mamas, By A Mama 

Pinned HERE

This is Cheesy Vegetable Chowder done in a crock pot. I am a sucker when it comes to crock pot cooking. It is so nice to just put it all in there and have a nice aroma in your house all day and it does all the work for you!! This definitely sounds like some major comfort soup during the winter months! I will be trying this one out for sure!

Source: Lulu the Baker

Pinned HERE

Doesn't this bread look Amazing?!? It is called Parmesan Pull-Apart Rolls. Sounds delicious!! These would be so yummy with many dinner dishes. I will totally be trying this recipe out soon. My hubby loves ANYTHING with cheese on it! I hope this will be a big hit with him:)

Source: Life as a Lofthouse

Pinned HERE

Mmmmm. I love dessert!! This is Frozen Reese's Peanut Butter Pie. One of my favorite candy's is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Adding Oreo's for the crust and cool whip in with them just sound heavenly!! I will be trying this out for a party very soon!!

Source: Baker's Royale

Pinned HERE

This is a Red Velvet Peppermint Crinkle Cookie. I love anything red velvet! I have never seen it in a cookie form before!! How fun is the peppermint candy canes in it too around Christmas time. You could even leave that out and just have the red velvet cookie. I think I might be making these for myself someday:)

Source: Cookin Cowgirl

Pinned HERE

I love people who come up with amazing ideas that I have never thought of before. 

Here is an idea to put melted chocolate in an ice cube tray, put the strawberries in and freeze! Super simple!! 

Source: T. Time Chic 

(I am so sorry about this one...I repined it from someone, but I guess the original pinner just pinned the website..not the specific post and I couldn't find it on there.)

Pinned HERE

Want to make heart shaped cupcakes, but don't have the specific pan? Have no fear...put a marble in and WALAH...you have a heart shaped cupcake!!! I am totally making some for Valentine's Day in a few months!

Source: Muses of Megret

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This is the GREATEST idea ever. Make some cookie dough, grab your cupcake pan, turn in upside down, form the dough over it and bake. Now you have cookie bowls for ice cream!!! I am totally going to do this for my next party!

Source: Wilton

Pinned HERE

I seriously could go on FORVER with many great recipes. Maybe in a few weeks I can do another special addition! I hope you enjoyed this addition of recipes. 

I hope you all have a fun filled weekend. 

WISHING YOU A 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Crayon Wreath Tutorial {Teacher's Gift}

My cute little Kaitlyn is in preschool right now and wanted to give her teacher something for Christmas. I thought it would be super cute and fun to make her teacher a Crayon Wreath. I wanted to show you all how to make it. It is so colorful and bright! 

What You Will Need To Make It:

-A 12" Embroidery Hoop

-A 8" Embroidery Hoop

-64 Crayons

-Ribbon

-Hot Glue Gun

-A Few Glue Sticks

How To Make It:

Put the 8" embroidery hoop inside the 12" one. Make sure the spacing is the same all the way around. I thought I would be super awesome and just free hand putting the crayons all the way around. I was COMPLETELY wrong!!! The spacing was not right and they weren't staying straight. They were turning more then they should! I definitely found out the hard way. I had to pull off the few crayons that I had glued on and start over. I hate when stuff like this happens! Oh well! I then decided to go about it a different way.  I glued on 4 crayons making a "t" shape on the wreath. This way I could just do quarter sections and know I would get the spacing right. This was MUCH easier! It went together so fast after I did this. It was way easy to get the spacing just right. 

I laid out the crayons one section at a time. I wanted to make sure I got the spacing right and then I hot glued them all on the wreath. I found the best way to line them up was to put the top black stripe on the crayon just over the 12" hoop. You can see that with the green crayon above. This way they were all in the same spot on the wreath.

When I got that all done I made a bow out of ribbon for it. I found some cute ABC 123 ribbon at Hobby Lobby. 

I then hot glued that on to 2 crayons at the top of the wreath.

Next, I made a loop out of the same ribbon so it could be hung up. I put it through the 2 crayons that the bow was on, looping it around the embroidery hoop. 

Then I tied the ends together.

 I then pulled the knot down by the hoop so you could not see it. 

After I got that done I burned the ends of the ribbon with a match so it wont fray. 

Next, I got on my Cricut and cut out her teachers name and made them look like blocks. I also cut out a book, an apple and an award ribbon. 

Lastly, I hot glued them to the wreath. That's it!!

Here is the Wreath all done...

She was so excited to give it to her teacher! She gave it to her on Thursday the 15th of December. Her teacher absolutely Loved it!! YAY!!! She said she had never seen anything like it before. I was so excited that she loved it!

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A Crafty Christmas

I hope all of you had an absolutely wonderful Christmas!! My family and I sure did! Santa stopped by our house with many presents:) It is so fun having kids of my own now to go crazy with on Christmas! It is so awesome to watch their excitement!! We totally forgot to take a picture on Christmas day of us all so here is a picture of us in our Christmas Eve Pajamas, which is a tradition in our family....

I got many awesome presents this year. A few of my favorites are going to help me a lot with my CRAFTING!!!! I am so excited to use them:) I got a Pink Tool Box from little miss Kaitlyn, a few other tools, a hot glue gun with different temperature settings, scrapbooking paper and some plastic boards that I can make my own stencils out of. I can put them in my cricut to make them!! I can't wait to try that out! I am totally excited about the hot glue gun with the temperature settings. I have burned myself so many time with my other one. This will be so nice to be able to turn the temperature down when I don't need it so hot! YAY!!

You do not even understand how excited I was to get my own tools!! We are living with my parents and my hubby keeps all of his tools over in his parents garage because he has a billion of them and wants them out to use so I don't have easy access to them so I have been using my dads tools to do my crafts. Now I have all the basics right in my craft room to be able to use!!! Here is me with some of my new things...

SO SO HAPPY!!!!!

I even got to put them to use Christmas morning. Santa brought Kaitlyn a bike and a helmet. On the helmet package was a bell for the bike so I put that together for her...

Thank you so much to Santa and my wonderful family for an AMAZING Christmas!!!

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Pinning it on Pinterest #3

Welcome to Pinning it on Pinterest #3! I can't believe I have been doing this for 3 weeks now. Time is going by too quickly! I hope everyone has had a good, unstressful week trying to get all the last minute Christmas shopping done! I can't believe Christmas is this weekend!

Let's take a minute to relax and look at my Pinterest Loves of the week!!

This swimming suit is to die for!! I am in love!! I absolutely love how modest it is! Their website has so many modest swimming suits, which are so hard to find sometimes.

Source: Rey Swimwear

Pinned HERE

Don't these cookies look yummy?!? They are called White Chocolate Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies! They sound delicious for Christmas!

Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything

Pinned HERE

This ring is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I love every little thing about it: the color, the design! May be some day I will have it:)

Source: Endless

Pinned HERE

I am crazy about this ruffled tree skirt!! Since we are living with my parents we have just been using their tree so we don't put one up. When I know we are going to be using our tree again I am definitely going to be making this!! I need a cute tree skirt!

Source: The Creative Imperative

Pinned HERE

I love this picture! Such a neat saying for Christ this Christmas time of year! I am definitely printing this out and putting it up in my house!

Source: Kenny Martin (Facebook Pictures)

Pinned HERE

This Bow Pillow is so cute! I love the colors especially. I am going to have to try making one for my house!! I need some fun pillows for my couches!

Source: E Tells Tales

Pinned HERE 

This wreath is so fun!! I love all the different ribbons. I love how they just tied it on the wreath! So Cute!! I want to do something like this for a spring wreath.

Source: Maddysons Lane

Pinned HERE

Doesn't this bread look delicious?!? I just want to eat the picture:) It is a Lemon Blueberry Yogurt Loaf. My hubby loves blueberries so I am totally going to be making this for him! YUM!!

Source: Sweet Pea's Kitchen

Pinned HERE

I have always wanted to try frozen hot chocolate. This recipe sounds so good! I think I might try it out in the next few months!!

Source: Tasty Kitchen

Pinned HERE

This bag has got to be the cutest thing!! It is made out of a Tank Top!!! All you have to do is sew the bottom, add a cute flower and you're done!!! I am totally going to be trying this! So fun!!

Source: Salt Tree

Pinned HERE

I hope you all enjoyed this weeks Pinterest Loves! I am totally becoming addicted to that site! 

I hope that you all have a 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

this weekend!!