Fall Campfires and S'mores Pancakes!

Fall has arrived early this year (so sad, I miss summer!) and what would be more awesome for breakfast than S'mores Pancakes?!?
Plus, I just got back from Hershey, PA. so we've got chocolate on the brain..

Ingredients:
 1 cp flour
2tsp baking powder
2TBS cocoa powder
2TBS brown sugar
3/4cp milk
1 egg
for topping: 1cp marshmallow fluff +2TBS boiling water- stir until combined.

Whisk the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Beat the wet ingredients together in a smaller bowl then add to the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
 
Spoon a quarter cup of batter onto a skillet (or griddle, if you have one) on medium heat that has been coated with nonstick cooking spray/butter (mine is no stick, YAY!). Flip after 3-4 minutes, just as you notice bubbles forming around the edges of each pancake, and cook 2 minutes more.

Drizzle the sauce over the top. If you're really wanting chocolate, stick a piece of chocolate on top of the pancake before the marshmallow sauce...just sayin'
 

The Craft Room Begins

I'm so excited because last week I picked up this beautiful old chair for $10!
Reupholstery and wood finishing are new subjects for me but I think this will be a fun adventure.
Any suggestions on color schemes? I plan to paint the wood a nice fresh color and of course new fabric for the seat cushions.

The chair will be part of my craft room! We are going to be converting his old workroom into craft central!!! I can't believe he's giving me his tool room-

This is the before pic- YIKES!
The chandelier, green shelf and chair are my additions so far but we have to get those "man things" out of the way first!

I am going to have so much fun in here!

Also went to the art museum this weekend and saw 3 Monet paintings in person. This was my favorite of the three. There was a Tiffany's glass exhibit too. WAHOO!

DIY Mint Skinny Jeans

As I was bumbling around on Pinterest this week, I discovered this fabulous idea from the girls at PrettyProvidence!

These colorful skinny jeans have been so popular this year!Now, you can get the look without shelling out gobs of cash. Sweet!
Here's the link to their how to:  
http://www.prettyprovidence.com/2012/04/style-for-song-diy-mint-jeans.html 
They even show you how to make regular jeans into skinny ones!

Freebie Alert!

Check it out! Free samples of Simply U shampoo! Go here to claim yours now while supplies last! 

Delicious 3 Ingredient Breakfast Pinwheels

You're gonna want to make these for breakfast ASAP! They're so good the man was enthusiastically asking for seconds.
How many ingredients, you ask? Only 3, yep, you heard me right, 3 ingredients!

1 roll of breakfast sausage
1 (8oz) package cream cheese, soft
1 tube crescent dough

Brown the sausage in a frying pan and drain off the excess grease.
Combine sausage with cream cheese in a large bowl.

Open crescent dough and lay out in a rectangle( do not separate the sections). Roll out a little and seal up the sections seams so it is one big rectangle of dough.

Spread the sausage mixture on the dough and roll up length wise.
Stick the roll in the freezer to firm up for a bit (15-20min?) before slicing across the roll to make lots of pinwheels.
Bake at 350 F for 15 min.
Done!

Eat them plain or dip them in syrup. They are good either way!

Wildly 80s T-Shirt Refashion on Whip It Up Wednesday!

Here's my fabulous T shirt's before picture. Gotta love that color!

The first cut is made. Cut off the top to make a sccop neck.

Cut the bottom hem of the shirt off and use to make straps. Just cut the straps 2 inches longer than you need them to  be.

Pin them on in place and try it on to make sure you like the length and placement of the straps.
I made one shorter than the other so it would hang at an angle.
Last step is to sew the straps in place using the extra inch  on each end of the strap as the part you sew.

Enjoy!

DIY: Recycle Junk Mail!

As you all know by now, I love finding ways to recycle, reduse, reuse!

So this week I am bringing you a quick, easy way to dress up your mail while recycling the extra junk mail envelopes that come in your bills, credit card offers, etc.

It's a perfectly good, useful envelope other than all the stuff printed on it!

I use mine to mail smaller items when I sell things in my online store so I make sure to put my blog info on there too!

These can also be used for personal mail. Guess what, people love getting personal letters.
I like the "tag you're it" image I found in a magazine because it's a cute way to say " hey! write me back!" :D

This is such an easy project but I bet you hadn't thought of it!
Find nice images or patterns in magazines or other junk mail that will cover the spots on the envelopes that have writing/print on them and glue them on! Use markers, stickers, glitter, paint, etc to make the envelope your own!