Pinterest

Ever heard of Pinterest? What am I thinking...you'd having to be hiding behind a rock to have escaped the snatches of pinterest, or atleast its hold on someone you know.

For a couple of weeks, if you were any where near me, you probably heard all about pinterest and the great ideas I'm finding. I'm not great at coming up with the creative ideas, but I can duplicate things with the best of 'em :)

I thought I'd show you all the fun things I've been doing-wanna see?!

I made these a couple of weeks ago for a shower a friend was throwing for her sister. This is a cupcake made of a receiving blanket and onesie, which worked great as the showers theme was All about Cupcakes.

We sent some "Hugs" to some people who really needed them:)

And these turned out to be a hit at our girls weekend. Below is the picture we found off of pinterest and above are all the scarves me made that weekend.

I love Uppercase living stuff. I have several knockoffs around the house but I've known for a while that I wanted to put our last name on glass for the fireplace. I found the above pic on pinterest as my inspiration and then a friend and I went to work.

I think it turned out really well!

Made these a couple of weeks ago. YUM! They were delicious!

My mom makes the BEST popcorn ever. I've tried numerous times to replicate it, but its just never the same. Until I saw this idea on pinterest. Use a brown paper lunch bag in the microwave. I've converted the hubby over from that nasty store bought microwave stuff and we'll never go back. Its not quite the same as Moms, but its sure a close second when I don't have the luxury of just popping (haha) by for some popcorn with my parents!:)

Book pages wreath

I saw this on pinterest and loved it. Wasn't sure where I was going to put it, but I had just gone through all of my books and had a bunch on the give away pile. The timing was right. But the length of time to make it was not. Holy cow this was a lot of work, and a ton of hot glue gun burns! But I love how it turned out and it now graces my friends house where it fits perfectly:) and made a great birthday present! (above picture is not the actual wreath I made as I forgot to take any pictures while the actual wreath resided in my house..bummer)

A Prayer Pail.

This has turned out to be one of the best pinterest finds for our family.We made these on our girls weekend too and the boys LOVE them. They never forget to pick a stick before we pray and I love that it is getting them outside of themselves and their own needs and into the lives of others.

I collect Nativities. I love all the different variations and when I saw this, I immediately thought of how fun it would be to do with the boys. So we got together with some friends and all made them together. The boys loved it and I love having 2 very special nativities to take out each year.

I saw this and knew I wanted to give it a try. Thanks to my adventurous friend, we whipped 'em up in a matter of minutes. Now I just gotta find the correct way to wear it:)

And this final project was so much fun, I did it twice...within a months span. And, let me tell you, its pretty intensive, but I love the final product.

And until I did this project, it didn't occur to me that I was so patriotic. My house is mainly red, white and blue. Yes, different shades and that even the downstairs is in red, white and blue. Huh. After living with it for how many years, that is just now occurring to me?!? Well, atleast we don't feel like singing the national anthem every time we sit down and relax:)

Yea, after hours of work, her wreath is complete!

My finished project, take 1

And getting ready to finish off take 2. In my defence, I did change it up a bit and made the flowers look different!

And i had to post this because it makes me laugh. A friend was hanging out and making her own wreath with me, and after nap time, N got up sat down and proceeded to join us in our conversation.

Someone needs to alert this child that he is only 5. And that he should play with other kids. Thats normal. Its not normal to skip over the children to seek out the adults in any situation and have an in depth conversation with them!!

Hope you've enjoyed my pinterest ride and I'm sure I'll keep finding and making ideas, but I love how its inspiring my creativity!