Pinspiration Friday

We may be snowed in this weekend... I hope to make these for my flat iron and curling iron this weekend. Otherwise my weekend plans are Cleaning!!! I need to get some major cleaning done--

From this pin

I purchased these pot holders from the dollar store to make them

DIY backsplash ideas

So I really want to do a backsplash behind our stove, without the help of my husband.... Here are some ideas I found to contemplate from pinterest.

 

Peel and stick "glass" tiles;

 

 

Ikea placemat tiles; easily interchangable;

 

Taping off the walls and painting;

 

Faux tin tiles;

 

Chalkboard backsplash;

 

If you have any great ideas to share please do! I'd love to see them! Or if you want to help me decide let me know your feedback!

 

 

 

 

 

Beef Thai style lettuce wraps

1lb Ground beef
1T rice vinegar
2T Chili sauce
1pkg Ramen noodles
2T Chili sauce
1T peanut butter
2T Soy sauce
Romaine hearts

Brown ground beef with the rice vinegar and chili sauce to really get that flavor cooked in! Drain grease. In the meantime also boil water and cook the ramen noodles, once ramen is cooked drain the excess water and add the chili sauce (more if you want it really spicy) peanut butter and soy sauce. Mix together well, chop up the ramen noodles-makes it easier to place mixture in the lettuce. Add ramen mixture to the ground beef mix all together. Once mixed well add a dallop or large spoonful to each lettuce heart. Serve and enjoy!!!

 

I actually added way more chili sauce and it was a little too spicy for our liking so I adjusted the amount for the recipe. But we still loved them and they were fairly easy to make. If you make this and love it let me know or if you make your own adjustments please share!

 

Weekend Sewing fail... :(

Well most of my weekend pinterest projects failed :(  Its either my sewing capabilities (I'm very lazy at it) or my materials were not the best.

 

First off the mittens, I'm too embarassed to show a picture of my outcome, they were terrible lets just say that!

 

Secondly my shirt, not so great! My husband says I need to slow down and take my time, well whats the point of it being a simple easy project then if it takes me all day? Well needless to say I ruined the shirts with my inability to cut out nice shapes.

 

And lastly well the boot socks or whatever you wanna call them turned out pretty cute, I like the outcome.

 

You can find the pintest post here 

 

 

After a much failed crafters weekend, I may attempt these projects again when I am willing to spend more time on them, if or when I do I will post updates! Thanks for looking!

Pinspiration Friday!

Pinspiration Friday; Craft/DIY idea for weekend projects

 

This weekend I am going to attempt making a shirt like this,

 

From this pin here. Looks pretty easy and customized!

 

And I want to make these mittens, already picked up a sweater from the goodwill to use.

 

From this pin here.

 

And lastly I would love to also make these

 

 

From this pin here.

 

Looks like this weekend projects will all be a sewing-a-thon!

 

 Monday will post results :)

 

Vanilla in the oven--Heavenly smell

Pintest post here or here states that if you put 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract in a coffee mug in the oven at 300 degrees within 15 minutes your house will smell heavenly. All I found was a hard to clean mug and no fresh vanilla scent. Pinterest fail!

Pinterest Copycat Starbucks frappucino

The post here from pinterest is supposed to mimick the starbucks frappucino, with the recipe from pinterest, the end result was absolutely disgusting in my opinion. It was filled with way way too much sugar. I even tried adding more creamer and milk to dilute the sugar, didn't really help much. I recommend searching for a better recipe, If I find one I will post it.