Made It, Loved It ....Or Not So Much

(Cream Cheese Chicken Chili & Jalapeno Cheddar Parmesan Cornbread
that my hubby made me from recipes he's pinned--amazing stuff!!)

I don't know about you but having Pinterest to be my personal virtual bulletin board or filing system has greatly simplified my online life! I love being able to put all of my favorite things all in one place rather than having a million links in my *favorites* folder.

Of course, every time I'm on Pinterest I find a bazillion yummy-looking recipes and they make me SO hungry-ha! I have no less than a dozen food-centered boards. There are more food-related pins among the other boards, but a total of 12 totally dedicated to recipes. Yes, I like to cook and eat!

This week though I decided it was time to create a couple of new boards to keep track of the recipes I've found and tried on Pinterest. So I now have a board titled *Made It & Loved It* and one called *Made It ...probably won't make it again*. I must say that my *Made It & Loved It* board is significantly larger than the other one:)

I have seen a few other people who have similar boards and I find their pins and comments very helpful. Sometimes those pictures live up to their good looks ...and sometimes they don't. It's just reality, people.

So if you're interested in seeing what pins have turned out great for me, just follow those boards! You can click the links above or you can click the *Follow Me on Pinterest* button to your right.

Do you Pinterest? And have you tried a lot of the things you have pinned?

(Strawberry Vanilla Lemonade my hubby made from
a recipe he's pinned--yes, he's the best!!)

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat ...

Door Hanger Chore Charts

My kids have had a chore chart for a while. It's one of those magnetic boards and they share it. However, it's not by their rooms and often they (and I) forget to update it. Plus it's a little bulky. When I saw the concept of a door hanger chore chart on Pinterest, I loved it! It was compact, right there were the kiddos could see it coming out and going into their rooms, and it costs almost nothing to make. I headed over to one of my favorite stores: Hobby Lobby, of course. They have these little wooden door hangers for .79. I also grabbed a couple of packets of decorative buttons for $1.99 each. I already had the clothes pins and the paint so those cost me nothing. I began by painting the door hangers (I used tempera paints because that's what I had). Then I grabbed a fine point Sharpie and the clothes pins and started writing chores on them, making sure to write them correctly so they will ...

Making Notebooks

Recently I tried out a new craft idea~and it was SO much fun!! And extremely frugal, too. That's always a bonus, right? So here we go: 1. Take your basic composition notebook (purchased at the back-to-school sales for .99 each). 2. Go to your craft supplies and get your Mod Podge ready, along with a good paintbrush. 3. Look through all those scrapbook papers you've been randomly collecting and choose some. 3. After choosing your paper for the cover of your book and trimming it to fit, start *painting* the cover with the glue. Next, give the back of your paper a good coat of glue, too. (I left the binding uncovered so that I could use a contrasting paper there later on). 4. Glue it on! Remember to smooth out any air bubbles under the paper. 5. Flip the cover open and make a few cuts on the corners so that they will fold over nice and neat, then add a little more glue to the edges of the inside cover and a little more to the paper edges. 6. Fold them over and press...

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