Wrap That!

Everyone who receives a gift from me knows that I am the worst wrapper ever... you may be thinking eh can she really be that bad? Well the answer to that would be OHHH YES! For example my sisters birthday was this past Tuesday and as usual I never get presents on time (another problem for me) but I couldn't find any full tubes of wrapping paper so I wrapped her box with about 5 scraps. So my goal for christmas this year (as well as making sure I have all my gifts for christmas morning) is to learn to wrap my presents the right way. So of course I have been looking through pinterest and this new website I found called craftgawker. So below are my favorite tutorials and ideas.

How to tie this beautiful bow here.

Try using your old christmas cards as gift tags.

Ideas (1)

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Visit the rest of her website here for more great ideas.

Good luck with your wrapping this holiday season!

Feeling Crafty

I finally got around to doing one of the crafties on my pinterest to do list. You take a regular old bobby pin (I would suggest the ones for blonde hair since they show the color the best) and take your favorite color of nail polish and run it along the top of the bobby pin. If you don't want it to run over the sides just make sure to run one side of the brush along the side of the lid to get the excess off. Also I noticed that the thicker the polish the better it showed up, so keep that in mind when picking your color. Then just let them dry overnight and WAHLAH! you have colorful bobby pins to match your outfit :) 

This is how mine turned out!

Food for thought...

I have really been slacking in the "making dinner" department lately. School is just dragging me down along with the worst case of allergies I think I have ever had. But yesterday I found this bean dip recipe that looked really good. Now normally I hate everything that is considered Mexican food, but refried beans are actually something I enjoy in small doses. So I introduce to you Warm Bean Dip which I found from The Country Cook via pinterest of course.

Ingredients:

2 cans (16 Oz) Refried Beans

1 can (10.5 Oz) Diced Tomatoes (see notes)

1 Tablespoon Taco Seasoning

4 cups Shredded Colby-jack Cheese (see notes)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325F degrees.

Drain excess juice from tomatoes using a strainer.

In a medium bowl, combine refried beans, drained tomatoes, taco seasoning and 2 cups of cheese.

Spray an 8×8 baking dish with nonstick spray. Pour combined ingredients into dish and spread around evenly.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until thoroughly heated through. Add remaining cheese on top of dip and bake for another 5 minutes until cheese is melted.

Serve warm with your favorite tortilla chips.

I am not a tomato fan so I put just a tiny bit in there... although next time I don't think I will put any in there. I think this might also be good with some taco seasoned beef thrown in there. 

I made this for me and my two roommates and the 2 cans of refried beans was wayyy to much. Next time I will definitely cut back the ingredients, with the exception of the cheese. But I definitely recommend this as a try!

what a beautiful day,

I would just like to start out with...... HOW BEAUTIFUL TODAY WAS!!!! I am a lover of hot weather (definitely the summer) and the beautiful sunshine. But todays weather seriously improved my mood sooo much (that and the advice from an amazing friend)! It also helps that I got all my homework done for today earlier this week. Also I went crazy on pinterest today, and found some uber good ideas. I would just like to take a moment to mention that pinterest is more than an addiction for me..... its like second to the bible...but really! Enough of that... I hear (or rather see) that it is Pinteresting Wednesday, so therefore i'm going to share some of my favorites from my binge today....

House Swing

I really would LOVE this in my future home. please and thank you.

Fun Date!

How fun would this be for a date... it's kind of on my bucket list

To sleep under the stars.

Lace

I'm not usually a fan of pink, but when its combined with lace how could you not?!

SHOES!!!!

I literally died when I saw these. I have been looking for some shoes like this for months.

Unfortunately they don't have my size :(

MY DREAM HAIR!

As a brunette I have always wanted to color strips of my hair. But I don't really want

to strip sections to color them. Although if it would end up looking like this

I would totally go for it! le sigh.

So, I hope you enjoyed these finds as much as I did.... now its off to more pinning....

-Jordan

hmm, what to do?

Today I woke up highly motivated, why I have no clue but i'm glad it finally happened. Considering for the past few months I have been trying to figure my life out and do something. But anyways, I woke up and decided I was going to tackle a craft today. Unfortunately it ended up not working and the way I wanted and was uber frustrating. My plan was to fix up one of the frames that I bought for a dollar way back when and I wanted it to look similar to this...

found it on pinterest

(if you are feeling really pinteresty you can follow me here I literally spend all my free time on there)

but the yarn didn't look anywhere near this good so I decided to take another 

route, I recovered the frame and made a little project to go inside....

and this is what it ended up looking like...

I'm not a fan of the inside part and I will probably end up changing it, 

but for now it shall stay.

And for dinner I was still feeling productive so I looked up recipes on pinterest (hehe) and found one that I had all the ingredients for or at least that I could improvise with. Also anyone who knows me, knows that i'm an extremely picky eater but I decided to try this (even though it has pasta, aka i'm not a pasta fan) I ended up picking Creamy Grilled Chicken Piccata ...

It was a bit too much lemon for me and if I ever make it again I will take out most of the lemon juice, but it is definitely worth a try.


Now I shall play spider solitaire until I fall asleep :)

Hope everyone has a fantastic and beautiful weekend as I have.

The Beginning...

I'm really excited to start this blog, i've always wanted a blog and I just never did it until today. My friend Jackie help me set it up (you can find her here http://sweetcarolinaqueen.blogspot.com/). I'm still trying to learn how to work this thing, so bear with me. :) I created this blog so I could share DIY projects and things that I find out the internet. I don't know about you but I love new things, and being the first one to know things doesn't hurt either. So hopefully I can get the hang of this soon!


and for funzies... The ABC's of Me! :D

A. Age: 21

B. Bed size: Full

C. Chore that you hate: grocery shopping and getting gas
D. Dogs: a lab called Mackers (or Mac if you're the rest of my family)
E. Essential start to your day: that it starts after 10 haha

F. Favorite color: purple and then a tie between lime green and teal/turqouise
G. Gold or Silver: silver

H. Height: 5'7"
I. Instruments you play: I played the clarinet for two years and the bass clarinet for a year
J. Job title: Student
K. Kids: none and not for a really long time
L. Live: NC
M. Mother’s name: momma

N. Nicknames: jo
O. Overnight hospital stays: never ever... well except for when I was born i guess
P. Pet peeves: Hearing people chew their food and when people say they can't remember things that they clearly can (which i guess also adds lying)
Q. Quote from a movie: we scare because we care (for my bff :) )
R. Right or left handed: Right

S. Siblings: younger sister

T. Time you wake up: depends on which day it is, but i hate waking up before 10
U. Underwear: thank you, i hate the other word.
V. Vegetable you hate: tomatoes
W. What makes you run late: i usually don't show up late anywhere unless its a party or such and then its cause I can never ever find anything to wear
X. X-Rays you’ve had: i guess my teeth
Y. Yummy food that you make: fried chicken, pork chops, and anything chicken
Z. Zoo animal: GIRAFFE!