Lost Socks!

Okay every time I do laundry I see pairs of socks going into the washer and dryer...

but when I take them out, I only seem to find singles?!?!

Either the washing machine or dryer is EATING MY SOCKS!

hehe!

I've NUMEROUS blogs who have "lost sock" displays for their laundry room so

here's my take on it ....

I used my Cruicut to cut out decorations and "Lost Socks"

Picked out my paper, you may remember it from my bread box makeover, here.

Looked a little dull so I added silver Sharpie around the letters.

Lay out the clothes pins, make sure they are evenly spaced.

I modge podged the BACK of the paper, laid my clothes pins on, let it dry, then

used an exato knife and CAREFULLY cut it out!

(I pre-painted my clothes pins black, but that took FOREVER

and was very messy!)

and FINISHED!!!

(these are 4 actual lost socks that all came from ONE load of laundry!)

Now its in storage until my house is finished in 43 days!!

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My House Progress- Framing up!

I signed papers 5-15-11 and took awhile to get plans approved by the city,

but things are going so fast now!!!

I'll let the pictures do the talking :) Dates shown on pic to let you

 follow along with me in all the excitement!

I can't wait to put all my craft projects into my house!!!

I'm headed out there now :)

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Easy peanut butter addition to box cupcakes

So I didn't feel like putting in much effort but wanted something sweet,

I had a box of cake mix and a can of frosting so I thought how could I mix things up a little bit?

I'm a PEANUT BUTTER fanatic so I added a dollop of peanut butter to the cupcakes

once they were in the baking tins.  Here's how it went....

{bake according to box instructions}

I didn't do any fancy icing, just wanted something sweet and let me tell you...

the peanut butter was SOOOO yummy!!

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately, everyday after work I go

see the progress on my house being built, then I come home and crash!!

I'll post pic's of the house build soon!

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House of Hepworths Guest Post

So my FAVORITE blog that I read daily featured me while she is on her

long road trip across the United States! I am so tickled that she did this for me.

She has an AMAZING blog and she's hysterical as well.

Here's my guest post!!!

http://www.houseofhepworths.com/2011/07/08/guest-blogger-its-a-cowgirl-thing/

thanks again Allison!!

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healthy JULY 4th snack

In the spirit of holidays I tend to make cupcakes but I'm trying to

get back on track BECAUSE I've fallen off the deep end when it comes to sweets!

(guilty as charged!)

Remember Warrior Dash I did awhile back??

(read more here)

Well, I've signed up for another fun run, Tasha got my HOOKED...

so for July 4th I made fruit cups with:

Strawberries

Blueberries

Bananas

and a little whipped topping!!

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Amanda's broach bouquet

My dear friend from college Amanda made a beautiful broach bouquet for

her wedding this past weekend.  She collected broaches for year from antique stores,

garage sales, ones friends founds (ME ME ME), family gave her, etc.  She wrapped them very carefully onto

floral wire and made a breath taking arrangement.

They also did a sand ceremony, turned out really pretty!

Me and the bride!

She is such a beautiful woman inside and out and I wish

her the very best in all she does! I don't think I would never of

made it though the dental hygiene program in college without her.

I remember many of amazing nights : her calming me down when I had breakdowns

from stress, playing rock band in the middle of the night, eating candy because

we thought it would help us focus on studying, though all the tears & laughter

we made it though!!

The isle she walked down, can you say breath taking?

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My house is coming along!! Breaking ground!!

In case you don't know my story, I just bought my first house and am so tickled pink

and proud of my accomplishment... here's how its coming along!!!

{my story's here}

yes I move in in 65 days... so from here they are going to have to chop chop :)



another version of my memo board

So I made another memo board, one of the ladies my mom works with

saw the post about my memo board and thinks it would be a great addition to her home

and to help communicate with her elderly mother. 

I was honored to take her order and make her one...

Here's how it turned out:



See tutorial right here!!!

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teeth snack

I got the CUTEST picture sent to my phone this weekend from my

sister-in-law!

SUPER SIMPLE!

step 1- slice the apples (a slicer would make this easy breezy)

step 2 - coat one side of each apple in peanut butter

step 3 - place mini marshmallows in between each peanut butter side

step 4 - have fun, show of your new "grills"!

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Father's Day Jalapenos

So when I went to canton I found a hand-made jalapeno de -seed-er...

It worked GREAT to take the seeds out!!

I stuffed 25 jalapenos with cream cheese and a little shredded Cheddar cheese,

then wrapped them in bacon and put them in the oven at 350deg for 30 min.

I would recommend putting them in a dark coated pan OR on the grill instead of this

white colored pan.

Can you say DELISH??

and the jalapeno corer was A GREAT HELP!!

To go with fathers day we made Julia Child's Chicken Cataloni

Similar recipe here.

And for dessert... Sopapilla cheesecake!!

sopapilla cheesecake recipe here

Had a wonderful father's day, hope you did too.

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MAVS parade

So what's the difference between a dollar and LeBron?

A dollar has four quarters.

HeHeHe...

So I'm a huge Dallas Mav's fan so needless to say I was super excited

to see my team win it all!! I went to the parade in Dallas which was

a blast!! No one from Ft Worth that I had talked to could get off work

to go so I drove all the way to Plano at 6 am(45min) to take the DART back to Dallas.

We got to the parade at 8am and got an awesome spot right on the parade rout with

no one blocking my view, YAY!

So after it was over we took the Dart back to Plano, and waited about 2 hours

to get on, well then the DART gets in a tunnel and the one in front of us BREAKS DOWN.

Yeah, so we were stuck with nowhere to go, everyone smelled, no water, no

bathroom, no cell phone service for an hour and a half. UGH it was pretty awful but

I got some pretty awesome shots of the parade with my camera,.... here they are :)

(love the reflection in his sunglasses!)

I love Dirk and JetTerry!!!!

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