Easy Homemade Bread Sticks

TEST #11

Easy Homemade Bread sticks

This recipe is just as it sounds...EASY! I was excited to make pasta for dinner one night.. and what goes better with pasta than bread sticks? So I went to Pinterest to begin my search for the easiest, fastest, tastiest bread sticks. No super long rising times, or long waiting. Only rising for 15 minutes and cooking for another 15 minutes and they turned out great! :) Will definitely make these again!!

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Chicken, Potato and Carrot Crock Pot Dinner

POST #10

Chicken, Potato and Carrot Crock Pot!

My sister was asking me if I'd post a recipe for a crock pot meal. So here it is! My favorite Sunday dinner meal. Quick, easy and delicious!

2 cans of Cream of Chicken Soup
3 cups of water
Whisk together in bottom of crock pot.
Add 3 chicken breasts, cut in halfs.
Salt Chicken
Peel 10 potatoes.
Cut potatoes into half's and add to crock pot.
Add 1/4-1/2 bag of baby carrots on top.
Cook on low for 6-7 hours.


Definitely a SUCCESS

Make Up Brush Cleaner

TEST #9

Make Up Brush Cleaner

I came across a pin for cleaning make-up brushes.. I know I'm dumb sometimes, but I never even thought to clean them... So! Today I decided, "Hey. First time for everything!" I followed this "make up brush cleaner" recipe perfectly and I rinsed out SO much make up from my brushes!!  I loved this recipe (1 part olive oil and 1 part dawn antibacterial soap!) "Olive Oil to moisturize your brushes. That sounds weird, but just go with it. [And] Dawn (soap), as your antibacterial agent," says the blog.  It worked really well on my brushes and I am going to start doing that more often. 

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Wood Block Decorated for Jewelry and Pictures

TEST #8

Wood Block Decorated for Jewelry and Pictures

(Before you look at my picture below, click on the titled link above and see what inspired me from Pinterest.)  I saw the Pinterest picture and thought, "I HAVE TO MAKE THIS!" So I went to home depot to get wood.. so many options.. Uhhhh... The board that was about 3/4" thick was about $25.. But I wanted to make a board in under $10. I asked the worker, "If I get you to cut this in half and I only take half, does that mean i get this wood for 1/2 off?" He informed me that I still had to pay full price. So, I told the worker that I didn't want expensive wood, and he informed me that I could get REALLY CHEAP wood for .52 cents in the back. I was excited! I went back and picked out 3 pieces of wood. two 4 foot pieces of 2 by 4's... and a piece of wood that was 3/4" by 1 foot by 4 feet. (Does that make sense?) Anyways. He nailed it together for me so that I could cover it in fabric and have my 3/4" piece come off the wall a few inches. It worked! I just hot-glued batting (as well as my choice of fabric) to the wood and then purchased rick-rack and crossed it so that I could stick pictures onto the board to have on display.  I then put screwed hooks into the bottom for my jewelry to hang and i was finished! Such a fun project and mine turned out way cute!! :)

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Bobby Pins

TEST #7

Bobby Pins

I don't know about any of you, but the people in my house are SICK of finding my bobby pins everywhere... Each day they can all tell which rooms I relaxed in because usually when I relax, I lay down and take my hair down- which means my bobby pins all need to come out of my hair so that I can be comfy! Then I lose them all over the house and can't find them the next morning when I'm getting ready. Or they get messy everywhere in my bathroom drawer and I can't find them. So I bought a little magnetic gadget for sewing pins and put it in the bathroom for my bobby pins. So genius!

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Goals

TEST #6

Goals

I decided now that I am home for summer that I needed to set some goals.  I thought, "this will be so easy!"....NOT! It's been very hard!  I came across this pin and thought, "I HAVE TO TRY THIS!"  It's been VERY successful! I bought a mini pack of post-it notes and cut them into third's (to save paper), and put a number of the month on each of them and stuck them next to my mirror that I use to get ready each morning. Every morning I get to look at my two lists of goals.  You can either take the sticky note down after you've accomplished your goal for that day, or just put a check mark on it. I like just putting a check mark because I am one who likes to see my progress.  If I were to take each sticky note down at the end of the day (if I accomplished it) then I wouldn't get to see how many days I did it for! I feel SOO accomplished each night when I get to put that CHECK MARK!

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Double Crunchy Honey Garlic Chicken

TEST #5

Double Crunchy Honey Garlic Chicken

DELICIOUS! This meal was so great! One thing that I would make sure to do next time is just flatten the chicken a little more so that the chicken would cook at the same rate as the crunchy outside. This chicken was full of flavor and had many different tastes in it! My younger siblings didn't enjoy is as much because it had too many tastes, but I enjoyed it a lot! 

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Crispy Baked French Toast

TEST #4

Crispy Baked French Toast

This was a hit! I made it one morning for my family and I really enjoyed this breakfast!  It was extra crunchy, yet still soft in the middle. We added butter and powdered sugar and gobbled this right up! 
On the downside, it is faster to just make normal french toast, but it worth every extra minute of cooking!

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Quick and Easy Blender Salsa!

TEST #3

Quick and Easy Blender Salsa!

This recipe was exactly as the title describes.. Quick...and...Easy... And that's exactly how it tasted...
This is a great recipe to whip up to add a nice touch to top off a meal. Enchiladas, beans, taco, or nachos perhaps? This recipe was great, but its not a recipe that I would make to JUST eat with chips, but nonetheless, I'd say it was tasty!

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Disneyland Dole Whips!

TEST #2

Dole Whips!

I was so excited to make this recipe! I've been to Disneyland many, many times, and I can only remember 2 times that I left without treating myself to a dole whip...AND I still regret it!   I found this recipe and decided to give it a try! It took a while, because you have to time it out perfectly to get the desired results, but it turned out alright. I'd rate this recipe a 3.9/5. I used the can pineapple, just as listed, except I didn't really like how in the end you could feel the pineapple slivers. That's the one thing about pineapple that I don't like, so I had a hard time enjoying it 100% knowing that I could have just gone to Disneyland and purchased another one.....nah, just kidding. My homemade whip was good and gave me the same taste as Disneyland, just with the little annoying pineapple slivers. But it was sure yummyyy!!

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Watermelon and Strawberry Lemonade

TEST #1

Watermelon and Strawberry Lemonade

I was very excited to make this. It's summer, and who doesn't want a mouth watering, fresh fruit, homemade lemonade! This lemonade was good. I don't think the watermelon that I used was sweet enough because my lemonade wasn't TOO sweet, I probably couldn't have adjusted the recipe and added more sugar, but I wanted to try the recipe just as it was written. I decided to also use the left overs and put them into mini ice molds so that I could just pop them in my mouth whenever I wanted a sweet treat. Unfortunately that was a fail. I don't recommend doing that with this recipe. The watermelon definitely adds a different texture to your lemonade, but nonetheless, I would make this again.

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Welcome to my Blog!

I decided to start a blog to share with everyone what Pinterest recipes/cleaning-supplies/ideas work, and which ones don't! Each of the recipes or ideas that I tried are linked through the title of the post! So you guys can check them out and then read my review and how well/poorly it worked for me! My goal has been to try at least 2 things from Pinterest! So far, I've been doing really well with trying different things! Food recipes are my favorite to try, but I also have managed to try a few home remedy cleaning supplies and other things as well! I will be letting my readers know which ideas were successful and which ones weren't!