I Love Magnets

Remember the CUUUTE makeup board that I wanted to make?

Well my Mom and I got some plain old metal sheets and started playing around with some different ideas. These were our rough, rough, rough drafts, just to test out the strength of our magnets :) So yeah. They worked on the carpet, but would I even WANT my makeup stuck to a board next to my mirror? Test Run 1. I just used thumb-tacks to pin the industrial magnet board to my wall, just to see if I would like my makeup like that.

Tried it out for a couple days, and realized it was actually pretty darn handy :) I was thinking about how nice it would be if I didn't have to open my dresser drawer for ANYTHING in the morning.

Step 2. Magnetize deodorant. :) hahahaha. Yep, I did it. AWESOME.

Step 3. I now have my hairbrush and face lotion stuck to the board too. No lie.

I vote for everything you EVER use being magnetized to the wall. Spoons, cereal bowl, oatmeal container... All ready for me to grab in the morning. ;) Whatcha think?

I am currently OBSESSED with magnets and find myself staring at things at work, in the car, at home thinking about what I could magnetize and stick to the wall :) Don't have room for all those shoes? Stick em to the wall :) What about your tennis racket? Maaagnet :)

The possibilities are endless. Watch out world, here I come ;)

Calling all Girl Scouts

Three Things Tuesday

1.) WANT SOME MORE SMORE NACHOS??????? I have heard of these for awhile, but finally this weekend I decided to give them a try. Break up your graham crackers for the bottom layer ( the tortilla chips.) Add chocolate to coat (the cheese). Then top off with some big fluffy marshmellows or if you are lame and lazy marshmellow cream :) (the sour cream, of course). Put in the oven on broil just for a bit, until the chocolate is melted and the marshmellows are toasted ;)

PERFECT for a fun sleep-over snack!

The verdict? They were fine. but i think there is a reason why smores are smores. There is something satisfying about the marshmellow gooping out between two graham crackers. I think I will stick with the orginal smores format. :)

2.) SNAKE FIRECRACKERS

While we are on the topic of food, I thought I should show you this :) Oh my gosh. These are the fireworks that the kids were all OBSESSED with the first part of the night. HOW NASTY do those little "snake" things look? Ugh. I couldn't stop laughing this morning when I ran by the lake and saw these all over the street. :)

3.) SOMEONE'S ENGAGED!
Look at that surprised face and the BEAUTIFULLLLL ring ;) One of my besties is getting married!!!! Woohooo for Jen and Travis! :)

Favorite Day of the Year

Today is my favorite day of the year. My deep-dark secrets of being obsessed with fire come out today, I think. :) I loooooooooove fireworks. Happy Fourth ya'all!

Manual Labor

I detest yard work. Like would rather do ANYTHING in the entire world except weed. Well, or any manual labor for that matter, but what can ya do. :)

So when I was presented with this chore?

'Not excited' was an understatement. Thank you GOD for inventing a scrapper. :) hehe. 15 minutes FLAT. and they think I pulled it out all by hand... :)

M & M's

I love holidays. Every. Single. One. Decorating, celebrating, dressing in the Holiday colors. You name it. Flag Day, 4th of July. I'm allll over it.

I also love baking. Especially cookies.

Sooo. One of my fav things to do is bake M & M cookies with holiday themes. You know how the stores sell the packs? Red and green for Christmas. Pinks and Whites for Valentines Day, yadda, yadda.

I even branch out sometimes and get a little creative if I do say so myself.

Pick out the red's and blue's... Wait... There is no white M & M's. Add white chocolate chips!

This time I went with the basic assorted Holiday pack.
I've made some for football season where I pick out all the blues and greens for Seahawk colors, red and yellows for the San Fran 49er's. You get the picture. While they are fun and cute, it is not fun to pick through the colors. Plus you need like 5 bags to get enough of the colors you need.

Where am I going with this? My lovely sister had the GENIUS idea of seeing if the Sweet Factory (a specialty candy store in malls around the Pacific Northwest) sold the customizable M & M colors. While they didn't have the ones where you could write messages or print pictures, they had WAYYY more colors of M & M's and they were organized by color!

We bought purple and yellow and she baked up some cute cookies to celebrate Tyson's graduation from UW and his younger brother's acceptance for fall!

Such a fun, easy spin on something simple!

Go bake some in your favorite colors. :)

I Scream, You Scream...

{We all scream for icecream!}

Or shall I say "giggle"

Oh my gosh. I opened the freezer and saw this box of ice cream cones. Okay, I thought. A little drumstick.

Then I pulled one out of the box... Looks normal, right? LOOK AT THIS!!!! It is like a 2 inch tall ice-cream cone!

It was smaller than my thumb!!!!

I seriously couldn't even eat it because everytime I looked at it I would burst into laughter.
Ahahaha. Look at that cute little thing. ( The icecream cone that is, not my manly thumb...)

:)