Girls Night

Last month the girls got together to make crafts. This was our first official (and testing) pinterest party. We made some very cute crafts from pinterest, which I forgot to take pictures of. We had some great food from pinterest, which I forgot to take pictures of. Also, we had wonderful people, which I forgot to take pictures of. Dang, I guess I just was not in the photography mood in November. I did however get about 12 pics from the entire night. (usually I take at least 100 in a night such as girls night)

It was a success though. We did learn what we would do differently next time. The pinterest party #2 is going to be way more "Pintrest"ing!!!

This was the first time that ALL the sisters for together at one time. We also had extra sisters such as my other sister (Kelsey, my sister in law) and Kristen's other sister (Ryan, Paxston's Aunt) and Megan even got to come for a while! She isn't a sister but we share the same birthday!!

8 sentences to sum it up

I read this quote on Pinterest (of course) and fell in LOVE with it! It is exactly true in every way possible. There really is nothing more to say, it sums Mady and I up in just 8 sentences!

A pinterest birthday party a.k.a.. under the sea

Have I mentioned I love pinterest? Well, just in case I have not.. I LOVE PINTEREST!!

I get all my ideas for my home, clothes, storage, decor, sayings, and hair... I also get ideas for Parties!

My chica just had her 4th birthday. That is another blog in itself, but I based her birthday party off of pinterest. Well, I didn't base it off but I got ALL my ideas from pinterest.

The theme was Under the Sea. She wanted a jungle theme, but in our downstairs basement we had to take the ceiling down in spots to look for the bees that moved in with us last spring.  We didn't put the ceiling back because 1. it wasn't that easy, and 2. we want a different ceiling.  The ceiling looked horrible and with missing parts so I knew I was going to have to do something to cover it. This lead me to and under the sea theme. I could cover the ceiling with blue cloth to make us feel like we were under the sea. That is exactly what I did!

Like I was saying, my ideas came from pinterest.

 Here are the things I found on pinterest that I knew I would be doing. Mine all turned out amazing, but some of the pictures don't show you how amazing they were.. You will get the idea though.

The string of balloons, net decor, I loved the napkins, pizza bread (aka my coral pizza), the penutbutter and jelly fish, octo dip, sand dollar cookies, stuffed baguette (I did mine with spinach dip for seaweed) and the submarine.

Below are my party foods and decor.

Food:

Seaweed Bites (baguette stuffed with spinach dip)

Shrimp Cocktail

Sand dollar Cookies on Sand (crumbled Graham crackers.. made by my mom)

Coral Pizza (cheesy bread cut in checkered board dip it is pizza sauce)

Octo Veggie Dip

Penutbutter and Jelly Fish (PBJ cut out in fish shapes)

Fruit Tray

Shark Bites (pigs in a blanket.. made my my sister)

The party was a wonderful success and I will blog about the party at a later time. There are so many pictures I have to go through. But I just want to say:

Thank you Pinterest for amazing ideas!

Glow On!

So today, after shopping for myself, I went shopping for Mady's under the sea party. While at the dollar store, I ran across glow sticks. This reminded me of... can you guess... PINTEREST.. I saw a cool thing with glows ticks and mason jars! So, I grabbed a glow stick pack and to the homestead I headed.

I took a knife and sliced the end off. Then placed my finger over the hole and broke the glow stick up. Next I dumped the glow stick into the jar and went looking for a dark room..

I wonder how long it will glow?

Total cost, (I already had the mason jar)  $1.00

So far So good

I have been saving all my projects from Pinterest that I have been working on for one big Pinterest blog! I am not even half way there so I figured Id give you a sneak peak at something I have done..



These are dates .. dates Zak and I were born, when we met, when we got engaged, and when we got married. I got the idea from here. I added locations to it. Not it doesn't look all fancy on here because.. this is a sneak peak. I can't show you the finished product until it is done!!

Mady Stats

Mady's Stats

I have two different birth stats that I want printed on canvas.. maybe matted and framed instead. Both ideas came from Pinterest. My mom made the first one and I made the second. (on the first one, the inches are wrong but will be fixed) I can not decide which one I like the best.