Felt Tipped, Tip

Pinned From:  Wee Folk Art

Sometimes you just want to throw your palm against your head and exclaim, "why didn't I think of that?"  This is one of those times.  Pinterest is full of good tips.  I really like to do crafts with felt, it's soft and it doesn't fray, what more could a girl want?  Sometimes I just wing it as I cut and sometimes I marker the shapes I want right onto the felt.  The former doesn't always work out so well.  The latter can be visible depending on how you apply the felt to whatever you're doing.  Wee Folk Art to the rescue.  The answer?  TAPE.  Tape that whole mother down, yo.  And she adds, staple the middle for stability.  Uh, duh!  Why didn't I think of that.

I did it.  I made my little friend Stella a Super Stella/Bird Girl cape for her 1st birthday.  One side was purple with a dark purple super S.  One side was pink with a bright pink bird.  Unfortunately I didn't take a picture before I gave it to her!  My bad. Cutting that felt out with this method was awesome.

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I'll never felt the same way again.

Alleged Texas Roadhouse Copycat Rolls

Pinned from:  Eat Cake For Dinner

The word "alleged"  carries a bit of disdain doesn't it?  I mean, I'm not mad at Ms. Eatcakefor Dinner.  Even she admits these bready bits aren't real Texas Roadhouse rolls.  Let's be honest it's not like you feel classy when eating at Texas Roadhouse, what with peanut shells on the floor and your server breaking into a sweaty line dance next to you, but those rolls?  and that cinnamon butter?  Good night, Nurse! 

These are not Texas Roadhouse rolls.  They are rolls.  Fine rolls, really but I already have better rolls in my recipe repertoire.     

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Not much else to say except for don't bother pinning, you have better roll recipes I'm sure.

We Need S'More Puns Around Here

Pinned from:  one simple addiction

A co-worker was getting married and we were having a work girl shower for her...I was assigned party favors. And I was all, please, give me s'more to do.  Pinspiration to the rescue!  (too much?  oh, come on, who doesn't enjoy a good pun now and then?)   I just had to come up with the perfectly bridal showery S'morey tag...

  Do you love it?

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This little project is nice and easy, simple and pretty.  Clear bags with "garbage" string as my son calls it.  He thought we should throw it away.  I guess it wasn't pretty enough for him.

Go on and do it already, you know there's something you need to make something for...and you can microwave yourself some s'morey leftovers.  YUM.

Deck The Wall

Pinned From: Centsational Girl

Gotta love all the tips and tricks you find on Pinterest!  At first I thought, I'm never going to do this, the cutting of the paper and the hanging it is just more work...but then I decided that it would be nice for my new family photo collage to actually be uniform.  Cutting the paper out went really quickly and having everything exactly where I wanted it before putting holes in the wall was great! I laid the paper on the back of each frame and marked where the nail would hang on each, then I (and by "I" I mean my husband and I) put the paper up and hammered our nails right through the paper.  

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The extra steps weren't so bad and ended up being worth the stress free picture hanging!

Ranchy, Porky Goodness

Yeah, that's right, I said "porky."

Pinned from: Real Mom Kitchen

I logged onto Pinterest just to show a friend of mine how it worked.  Then I saw this yumminess all smothered in yumminess and pegged her pardon while I did a quick pin.  I'm super glad I did.  This is a winner!  Very easy, very tasty, whips up fast in the crock pot.  Can I get an "Amen?"

The only problem is that the quick crock pottiness of it is just for the pork.  You do have to actually make your starch and your side.  Might I recommend Real Mom Kitchen's Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes she herself serves with this pork?  I'm not usually one to follow a recipe for mashed potatoes because, come on...but I did with this because I'd never roasted garlic before, GASP, and wanted to give it a try.  Results, delish.  I also served with some green beans lightly sauteed in olive oil with a sprinkle of salt and pepper.  Wanna see?

I got a little anxious...promise the gravy thickens up a little if you give it a minute or two.

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Eat this for dinner!  Soon.

Corn Bread Dressing

Pinned from: Mangio da Sola

Looks good doesn't it?  That's what I thought.  Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, it's just not my cup of tea.  I consider myself well versed in the consumption of good but I can honestly say I'd never really had a cornbread stuffing before.  I always thought it sounded good and seeing this image sure made me want to give it a go, plus there were comments on her blog by people who LOVED it.  Maybe I just don't like cornbread stuffing.  Maybe it is this recipe is the end all be all but I'll never know because of my aversion to it's basic make up.

Also, it goes against my basic rule for Crock Pot cooking...that it all be done in the pot, or maybe dirties one extra dish in preparation.  This bad boy dirties many dishes.   You have to make the cornbread, you have to poach the chicken.  That's lots of prep work and dishes for a crock pot dish if you ask me!

OK, that went on long enough, let me break it down for you.  My dinner table that evening included, me, my husband, my 2 year old, my 8 month old, my mother, and my brother.  I thought it was way too sweet, my mom that it was sweet, my husband said it was fine with salt, my  kids loved it and so did my brother.  So there you go.  A house divided.

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I mean, if some people love it and other's don't I suppose it's worth you giving it a try.  If you like cornbread stuffing then I really suggest you give it a try and tell me if it really is the best cornbread stuffing you've ever had.

Beauty

Pinned from:  The Ballet Blog

This image is just so beautiful.  I really love it.  I have a bit of a weakness for ballet art.  I used to be a ballerina, never anything major and honestly never any good but I did it for years.  When I was on a field trip to some museum (no idea where!) I bought a book of Degas paintings as a souvenir.  I just couldn't pass up all of those beautiful ballet paintings.  Years later my sister and I went on a trip to Paris and made a stop at Musee d'Orsay, it was by far my favorite day of our whole trip.  I saw all of the Degas works I'd loved up close and personal.  I've never been an artsy, fartsy, cry if a painting moves you kind of gal but I tell you I teared up a bit!  Anyway, I do so enjoy good photography.  Good, not overly photoshopped photography.  And good photography of ballerinas?  Well that's just icing on the cake.

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I'm loving the beautiful photography I get to see on Pinterest and I can't wait for more.