Tomorrow is my daughter’s 21st birthday…woo hoo! Pretty big day for her! She plans on having a pretty big celebration with her friends and she loves anything miniaturized! So, I decided to make her mini-cupcakes for the big event. I was also inspired by this recipe I found on Pinterest: Pink Lemonade Pound Cake. How…
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Homemade Dog Food Recipe
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of homemadedogfood.com for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When our daughter was just 1 year old, my husband and I traded an old drafting table for a yellow labrador retriever puppy. We named her Suzy and she lived to be 11 years old. She…
Stained Glass?
I love stained glass. Whether it’s in a church, an old tiffany lampshade, a window in an old victorian home, it’s just gorgeous. Many years ago I took a stained glass class from our local Arts Castle but I never mastered the art. I thought I’d try out the new alcohol inks and see if…
Shaker Lemon Mini Cheesecakes
What celebrity chef do you like? One of my favorites is Alton Brown…I LOVE “Good Eats!”. A great marriage between science and cooking! I’ve heard about another great show that Alton is affiliated with is, “Iron Chef”, but I’ve never seen it! Well, Jen of Four Marrs One Venus and Julie of White Lights on Wednesday are co-hosting…
Campus Books Rental = Saving $$
When you hear things on the news about the cost of college tuition, they don’t even discuss to cost of books. My two oldest children are current college students and the cost of their books always blows them away. In fact, winter quarter, my son priced his books as new and they would run over…
Paper Bag Floor Dyed Black – Trial
As you may recall from my Woman Cave project, I am a big believer in doing trial or test boards. You can see my original trial board journey here. I’m so glad I did this trial because the end result was this floor brown paper bag floor tutorial The floor in my half bath (under the…
Personalize your Disposable BIC pen with Sculpey Clay
On Friday, April 20, I had the opportunity to be a guest blogger on Newlyweds on a Budget. I showed you how you can keep from losing your pens, when writing checks at stores, by personalizing them with sculpey clay. If case you missed this, I’m posting the tutorial here today! Personalizing Your BIC Pen with…
Ohio State Wreath
Have you seen this wreath on Pinterest? Four of my blogging friends, Kari from Newlyweds on a Budget, Lindsay from Artsy Fartsy Mama, Anna from Directions Not Included, and Laura from Small Good Hearth all found great inspiration from this wreath. We each decided to create our own wreath that incorporated some design element of this fun springy wreath (we…
Orange Cleaner Part 1
When I was pregnant with my daughter I discovered an amazing concentrated natural cleaner: Citra Solv. It worked GREAT but was expensive! With the wonder of the internet, blogging friends, and Pinterest, I’ve discovered some cleaners people have made. Terri of These Peas Taste Funny posted a tutorial/recipe for Orange Enzyme Cleaner. I’ve seen other recipes with citrus…
Alcohol Painted (Inked) Tiles – AMAZING!
Have you ever gone to a store looking for one thing and left with something totally different? This happens to me more than I’d like to admit and it happened the other day. I had been hearing so much about washi tape and it thoroughly intrigued me. There is a project I have in mind…