Pinning it Down~ Tub Paint and Dinner

Well I am here! I promise! I know that I have been posting less, but I m trying really hard to limit the computer time! I have however done a few things this week off my Pin boards! The first thing I did this week was make dinner! Yes....that isnt the most impressive thing ever, but I did try a new recipe that I found! It appealed to me because it took frozen chicken! I never manage to get the food out of the freezer before I need it! I tossed in frozen chicken, a block of crean cheese, some frozen corn (I didnt have canned corn), some salsa, and a can of beans (I only had white bean, not black). Then I let it cook! It smelled amazing and it was good! I think that I will make it again, but I will add more salt and some spicier salsa. It needed a bit more kick I think! ;) I managed to take a picture of it when I put it together, but hen I totally forgot to get one when I served it over rice! Today I took the leftovers (there was quite a bit) and wrapped them in tortillas. I poured some of the sauce over the top of them and sprinkled it with cheese and baked it for dinner. They tasted alot like enchilladas! Unfortunatly I forgot to get pictures of that too! So sorry! I always forget to snap pictures of food at dinner time. Here is a picture of it when I put it in the crock pot!

Another thing that we did, was make tub paint! I have seen this all over Pintrest and spur of the moment yesterday, my sister and wanted to make bath time super cool! So while she ran the bath, I got on pintrest and found a recipe for tub paint here. It was so easy and, best of all, fast! All I needed to do is was mix some body wash with some food coloring. The pin I have calls for clear body wash ( you know the kids stuff) and they mix it with cornstarch and fod color. The cornstarch thinkened it. I didnt have that, all I had was some super think moisterizing body wash! So I skipped the cornstarch and added water to thin it down! I made red, blue, yellow, and green! the girls LOVED it! It was a super simple way to make bath time special. Plus they got super clean after painting their bodies! However, the tub was a little slippery after all that soap! So beware if you try it! Here are a few pictures I took!



So that was our pinning fun today! I hope to have some more fun this week! I am linking this up with Pinning it Down at Everyday Snapshots! Join us there and see what other things people are making off their pin boards!!!! Happy Crafting! 

Pinning it Down~ A blog of my own!!!!

Well I have working on something that I pinned only the other day! In case you didnt notice, my blog is looking al pretty and super cute! I found a step by step guild to making your very own blog background using all my very sweet digital scrapbooking stuff ( if you have read any of my other posts, you know I am a scrapbooker!). I really searched and searched for a great blog background, and while there are so many really pretty ones out there, none of them were really quite me! ;) So I really wanted to make my own! So after HOURS and HOURS of work, I finally got it worked out! It really is very simple in therory, but I just couldnt get it to work out! I have NO idea what I'm doing when it comes to editing HTML code and it was a whole bunch of trial and error to get it to work! Sooo.....what do you think? If anyone wants to check out the tutorial I used, you can find it here! I am linking up to Pinning it Down over at Amongst Lovely Things and I hope you stop by and see some awesome pins come to life! Happy Blogging!

Pinning It Down~ Valentine's Day!

Well I am a little late this week with my Pinning it Down post, but I did do some fun things from my pinboards this week! It was of course Valentine's Day, so there were so many great idea and some of them needed to be done! :) The first thing that I knew we had to do this year was put Bunny's pigtails into the shape of hearts! I found this idea here and I knew this was the best thing I could have found! I am not very good at doing hair, even with two girls to help out! But this was EASY!!!!! Plus it was really cute! It just doesn't get better then that! ;)



Another thing I did was use a few of the free printable to jazz up the mini brownies that I made for our Homeschool Valentine's Day Party. It really made them really cute and Valentine-y! I found this set here! It was just too simple to print them off, cut them out and stick some toothpicks to the them!

Another thing that we did this year, was make valentines! I saw these ideas early in January and I knew that these would be perfect for Bunny to make this year! :) She drew a heart and made it an coloring page. Then we attached crayon to them! The message said, you color my heart! :) Here is a link to the pin!

For Pup's Valentine's we made some Butterflies with suckers! She loved them so much, she really didn't want to give them away! The ones we made were far simpler then the ones we saw on pintrest, but they were cute! Here is a link for these!



And as a final little bit of fun, we made these really beautiful sandwiches for lunch on Monday! The pin leads to a blog written in German (I think) but, with the wonder of Google Translator, I found out that they were butter and sprinkles! Not the healthiest, so I used peanut butter instead! :) They turned out so well! However, all the kids said that the it was too many sprinkles and kinda yucky! ;) Here is a link to the pin!



So that is what we did this week! It was sort of a lot! :) I hope that you all had a fabulous Valentine's Day! If you stick around the next few weeks, you will see all my Princess Party Birthday preparations for Pup's 3rd Birthday! I am linking this up to Pinning it Down! Pop on by to see some more amazing people doing awesome thing from Pintrest! 



Pinning it Down~ Valentine's Party!

Well today we had some friends over for our Year of Crafts get together. My friend and I decided that instead of getting our kids gifts from each other this year, we would get together once a month for a craft instead! So far it has been super fun! This month it was my turn to host. Since Valentine's Day is right around the corner, I had to do something fun! And once again, with Pintrest in the picture I was inspired to do some extra to make our day fun! This awesome party was my jumping off point for planning! Since we do have lunch together, I thought I would have some fun with it! I set the table using some Pintrest inspired ideas! I found this awesome Leaf Runner made of felt and I changed it to hearts to put on the table. I thought it turned out really cute! Plus I was able to use some scraps of felt, so it was free! :) I also used some other scraps of felt to make some hearts to put in the vase that I have in the center of the table. On the hearts I put some Valentines seals to match the ones I put on the cups! These were a free printable that I found on Pintrest here! I loved them! They were so cute! There are also some really sweet printable that were free if you like their facebook page. These are the ones that I framed and put on my shelves! It was a very simple and easy bit that added a bit of pizazz! Here are a few pictures of what I had all set up!

For lunch I really had some fun figuring out how to make everything heart shaped! ;) I got the idea from someone's pin about making a Twinkies into a heart. So I thought that a hot dog would be able to do the same thing! So with a little diagonal cut and a flip, the ends of the hot met and it looked just like a heart! :) I also prepared more of the Valentine's Apples and I cut some carrots the same way I did the hot dogs to make hearts. I also added some cucumbers that I cut the edges off and a notch out of the top to make it look like a heart! They all were really fun and super healthy (to counter act the hot dogs which were not the healthiest choice! :). To finish it off, I made some cookies with the girls the day before! I used a sugar cookie recipe that I found on...you guessed it....Pintrest! They turned out ok, but I don't think that it is my favorite recipe. If anyone has an amazing cut out recipe, please share it!!!! I am about ready to give up finding the elusive recipe! Everything was really pretty and I think that the kids loved it (at least there was no more food)!

So that is what our lunch looked like today!!!! After lunch we moved on to some fun projects! I will post those tomorrow, so be sure to stop back!!!! I am linking up today with Sarah for Pinning It Down! To see some more awesome real life pinning, be sure to stop by and see what people have been up to! Happy Crafting!



Rainbow Unicorn Birthday~ Day 2!

*UPDATED on Jan. 31, 2012* I am linking this to the weekly Pinning it Down link up! There was so many ideas here from Pintrest, it seemed silly not to! Plus, if I'm honest, I haven't done anything else off Pintrest since! ;) Happy Pinning!

Well yesterday we had the family party for Bunny's 6th birthday! Most of the decorations were the same, but there were a few new treats! :) It was so very wonderful to have so many family members able to stop by and celebrate Bunny's Birthday! Everything was rainbowed and labeled! I used my Scrapbook program and this awesome Rainbow Package. It made it super easy to make all the little labels to tie the theme together! So easy to do, and yet so pretty! My sister in law and I (alright, more her then me) spent quite alot of time making the six layer rainbow cake! It was AMAZING and so beautiful! I was really thankful that she was there to help build (yes build) and decorate the cake! It turned out really pretty and it was super fun to eat! Another thing that we did, was make this Rainbow fruit platter! I also used it as the inspiration to make a Rainbow Veggie Platter too! They were so pretty and so good!we had a cheese ball in the shape of a unicorn! This idea was inspired by a bento meal I saw on Pintrest! It was just too cute and we had to have it! We also had punch with rainbow ice cubes! The punch was so simple, just 7up and white grape juice. The rainbow ice cubes were cool aide that I froze into ice cubes. I just sprinkled a bit of powder and a bit of sugar into the tray, then I filled the rest wit water! Pretty simple and no real recipe! :) I had a blast with this and I made sure that I had pictures! Here they are!



I think that everyone had a great time! I know that Bunny did! She really loves birthdays! She does get overwhelmed by the attention, but she loves it at the same time! :) She got so many wonderful gifts and she had a wonderful time with everyone! It was a special day and I just couldn't have imagined it any better! Here are a few pictures of the birthday girl herself!



Thanks to all who helped celebrate and make Bunny's day special! You all bless our life so much! And I hope that you like what we did for the party! If you have a rainbow party yourself, let me know! I would love to see what you did! :)