Wedding Invitation Ornament

Over Memorial Day weekend, I had a wedding to go to for a girl who was in my father daughter camping group as a kid. I've been wanting to try an invitation ornament, but all my friends who have gotten married already had one so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to make one! Plus, I had told the girl around Christmas that she should make one with her invitation and she was like maybe I'll just have you do it for me...ha ha. So I did it as a surprise!

1. Cut each line of the invitation separately
2. Wrap strips around smooth pen or pencil
3 and 4 glide strips into ornament and put top back on

After all the strips were in the ornament, I went to Michaels to look for a charm and ribbon to complete the ornament. Here's what I found...

A cross and love charm plus some gold-ish ribbon that matched the invitation. I was really happy with the way this turned out and can't wait to make another one!

Hello Card

I sent this little beauty (the picture really doesn't do it justice) to a friend who has having a house warming this past weekend that unfortunately I wasn't able to attend. This is probably the most decked out card I've made. I used light blue card stock as the base, light pink card stock for the loopy things, the hello spring paper (again) for the the hello, 2 flower stickers and 4 rhinestones. Dang...that was a lot to type...ha ha. My inspiration came from this card on the Archiver's website.

Rainforest Pyramid

A couple of weekend ago I really just wanted to get out of town for a little bit. As of lately, anytime I plan to go out of town something always comes up and my plans get cancelled. So going down to Moody Gardens was a nice little day trip. I've been wanting to see the bodies exhibit for a while and when I found out it was at the discovery pyramid I knew I had to go! Unfortunately, no pictures were allowed in there, but we also stopped by the rainforest pyramid where I was able to take pics! Yay!

I think the only time I had been to the rainforest pyramid was on a school field trip and I guess I had completely forgotten how hot and humid it was in there. Needless to say, I don't think I could survive in the real rain forest...ha ha. Hope you enjoy the pics below from the Rainforest!

Blueberry Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Roasted Strawberries

I went all out for this breakfast! Ha ha. It was just a normal Sunday, but what can I say sometimes I feel like being fancy :) I've been wanting to try roasted strawberries ever since I saw this post from How Sweet It Is.

First, I loooove strawberries!

Second, I looooove pancakes!

Third, I hate syrup (I know I'm crazy).

My favorite pancakes are chocolate chip. When I say chocolate chip, I'm talking about so many chocolate chips in them that they are pretty much molten pancakes...mmmm. Well I'm trying to eat a little healthier these days and had some fresh blueberries in the fridge and decided to cut down on the chocolate and add the blueberries. Let me tell ya, that was a fabulous combo!

Then the strawberries...yummy! Since I hate syrup, I have to find a way to moisten my pancakes (hence the abundance of chocolate mentioned above). These roasted strawberries were a really nice addition to the pancakes. The juicy little berries added just the right amount of moisture. To make them I used a little less than half a carton of strawberries. I cut them in fourths, mixed them with some olive oil and salt. I know salt sounds weird, but it wasn't bad. You only use a pinch. However, next time I think I may leave out the salt and roast them without it or with a tiny bit of sugar. Then you bake them on 375 for 20 minutes. Eat them by themselves or over pancakes, either way they are really good.

p.s. If you ever have left over pancakes DON'T THROW THEM OUT! They heat up really well in the toaster. I was able to snack on these all week without them getting soggy/chewy :)

Ticket Stub Collage

I go to a lot of games, concerts, rodeos and everything else in between...ha ha. I thought it would be fun to make a collage of some of my ticket stubs and since I had an extra frame lying around I thought now would be a great time to check that off my list!

These date back to August 22, 2009! ha ha It's an important date to me ;) It's also the date of the huge ticket smack dab in the middle of the whole thing...ha ha...anyone wanna guess what it is?!?! I still have enough stubs left over that I could make another one, but first I must find another free frame :)

Taco Salad

What do you do when you don't have anything to eat and no intentions of going to the store?!?! Well I decided to make my own taco seasoning in order to make a taco salad. Now I don't have a lot of spices stashed away so I combined already mixed spices that had the ingredients I needed.

Taco Seasoning:

1 tablespoon Salt Grass steak seasoning
1 1/2 tablespoons Joe's BBQ Cajun rub
1 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder

After mixing all the seasonings together, I put about 3 1/2 spoonfuls over my browned hamburger meat along with half a cup of water. Then continued making it like regular taco meat.

Taco Salad:

Contains shredded spinach leaves, taco meat, shredded cheese and crushed tortilla chips. I don't know how much of each thing I used, but it came out to be the perfect portions.

This was probably the spiciest taco meat I've ever had. My suggestion to someone who doesn't like really spicy things would be to leave out the red pepper flakes. I still have some seasoning left and can't wait to make tacos with it again!!

Have you ever made your own spice mix?  

Laundry Wreath

I've seen a bunch of different crafts and wreaths made with clothes pins and I knew I wanted one to go above the washer and dryer. I finally got around to making one and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

I used a 12 inch box wreath form and alternated putting the clothes pins on the last row and the second to last row. I made the laundry flags with just regular craft paper and stamps and strung them over kitchen string. Honestly, this was probably the easiest wreath I've made! I like that it adds a little bit of color to an otherwise boring room :)