Pinterest Play Day!

I finally had a pinterest play day! You know FINALLY doing SOMETHING that you've pinned to one of your boards!

If you haven't joined pinterest yet..enter with caution it's addicting!

So I seen this recipe on pinterest for these little cracker bacon snacks..

instantly I thought DAN WOULD LOVE THOSE!!

And let's get real who doesn't love BACON?!

Basically you take a club cracker, put parmasean cheese on it and wrap a half strip of bacon around it and bake it at 250 for 2 hours....

The picture below is about an hour into baking time...

And this is what they looked like when they were done..I know...wipe your mouth your drooling...

And this is what it looked like when Thing 1 tried them!

All three males in the house say this is a recipe to be filed..give it a try..they are super easy to make and not really that expensive. I got 28 crackers out of 1 pack of bacon.

This original recipe came from The Pioneer Woman. She has step by step directions on her blog if you'd like to see how this all goes together.

A Valentine Mantle

Ok so this mantle didn't go quite as well as I had planned.

I knew I wanted to blend the colors red,pink and turquoise but I couldn't get them to look just right on my mantle. Sometimes my dark wood work really works against me!

I seen how Lucy over at Craftberry Bush did her mantle and my wheels started turning!!

Her mantle is BEAUTIFUL be sure to take a peek-you won't be sorry. It's so soft and romantic.

However..I wasn't going for a romantic look just more of a fun whimsical feel.

She showed how she made a faux cross stitch picture and I knew right away I too wanted one of those!!

HOWEVER-I did not even come close to doing as good as she did. I just free handed mine and didn't use precise lining-which I regret now..because mine isn't so "cross stitchie" looking..but it'll do for this year I may redo it and do it correctly this time, for next year...

I was also inspired by her to wrap the blue jars in burlap and use the stripped down books.

I'm still not happy with how my mantle turned out. I think Im going to add some big glittery hearts.

But I don't want to dwell on it..so for now Im going to call it done..besides I still have to decorate the hutch :)

It looks more cluttered then decorated to me...I'll bet I end up redoing it eventually lol..

How are you decorating this year?

I've Been Featured!!!

Yay! So exciting!
The heart wreath that I made got featured as a top 10 on the Happy-Go-Lucky blog!

Thats super cool...I know right?!!
Thank you so much to Kara and Amy for hosting a fun blog party!
Be sure and pop on over to Happy-Go-Lucky and check out her blog.
Lots of link ups and cool stuff to see!!

Love is in the air...well sorta...

I started pulling out the RED and PINK stuff today!!

I wanted to share with you what I made a back in December.

 Little Heart Scatters..Made from SALT DOUGH!

I cut them out with a little heart cookie cutter..

 Spray painted them red-quick and easy here folks..

 Shot them with a coat of sealer..And BAM! Done!

Cute little bowl scatters...I made star scatters, gingerbread men scatters and Santa's boots and hat scatters (I will share at another time)

Here is the salt dough recipe that I used..

Take about 1 cup salt and dissolve it in about 1 1/4 cup water (or a little more if needed). Then stir in about 3 cups flour ( one cup at a time), until it's a nice soft dough.

You can shape it or cut it out with cookie cutters. Let it harden or bake it at 200 degree F until hard. Then paint with regular acrylics or spray paint :) Be sure your scatters are completely dry and cooled off before you paint them. Store in a container where no moisture or water can get to them.

I sold these this year for $2 a dozen and they were a big hit!



January Almost Over..........ALREADY..??!!

Looking at the calendar today, I was a little taken back by the date! January 26th!

Seems like just yesterday we were ringing in the New Year!

How are you doing with your New Years Resolutions? Are you sticking to them?

I myself...have stuck to some..some I haven't started..and some are starting to fall by the wayside...

When I looked at the calendar I realized Valentine's Day is just around the corner (already!) and it's time to start packing away the winter and new year's decor and pull out the red and pink..yay the one time I can get away with pink in this house :)

So Before January comes to an end, I want to wish you a Happy New Year one last time this year!

*~* Wordless Wednesday*~*

(My neice Allie)

A Valentine Start

After taking the all the Christmas decor down, I decided to keep the small tree

that I bought up. I stuffed it in a corner in the dining room and thought it would be fun to decorate it for the different holidays.

Doing things DIY is always my first go to before I spend money on something.

Carter was using his parla beads (The beads you put on a pegged tray and fuse together with wax paper and an iron) the other day, and I seen the heart tray setting there and the phone rang...and so....began the start of making Valentine ornaments for the little tree.....

So whatcha think? I think cute so far..but guess what, I ran out of pink beads....ole well..Stay tuned for more ideas to come :)