Polk-A-Dottie!

Happy Sunday everyone:)  I hope you had a fabulous Friday and Saturday! I did! I ran in my 2nd 5K this year, and I did my best time:)  I will share some photos with you all in another post about this weekend!  For now, I wanted to share with you my fun nails that I did:)

This past week, I wanted to try something different with my finger nails, so I decided to make this fun creation!

Polka dot nails!

Oh..So Cute Nails!

I'm especially in the mood these past 2 weeks for giving myself manis and trying different things when painting my nails:)  I guess maybe I have a little bit more time, so why not, right?!?!

This one I tried I'm going to call Sparkly Teal Loving!

Teal Love!

~Sparkly Nude Manicure~

Hey All!! I hope you are enjoying your day:) I wanted to share with you all my latest manicure that I did and I have to say that it lasted for almost 5 days without chipping; for me that is unheard of!!  It was really pretty simple and didn't take a lot of time or wasn't too difficult either:)

All I did was take this Sally Hansen nail polish and painted that on my nails first then I took a glitter stick and applied it to the tips of my nails and voila! Almost forgot apply a top coat to protect your beatuimus nail design:)

You could try this with all sorts of different colors, so go ahead and have some fun with it!  I sure did:)

Thanks for stopping by:):):)

Until next time!!!!!

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A Chocolate Chip Dream:)

Hey everyone!  I hope your all having a fabulous day:):)  I sure am because I'm thinking of what I'm going to be doing once school lets out and all of the things that I'll be able to accomplish!  This past weekend, I tried a De-licious recipe from this website that was Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes!  These are close to my favorite cupcakes that I baked.  If you are curious what other cupcakes I've baked them here's the links, come and check them out:  Peppermint York Cupcakes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cupcakes, Raspberry Cupcakes, and S'mores Cupcakes.

These chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes are ooey and gooey, sweet, and a cookie doughy delight:)  I LOVE the surprise of the cookie dough in the middle.  I mean who doesn't love cookie dough?!?!?!  I could just eat cookie dough for dessert and I would be happy!

Raspberry Surprise Cupcakes!!!

A couple days ago I posted about my York Peppermint Cupcakes, and now I'm going to share with you all my Raspberry Surprise Cupcakes!  Let me start off with saying these were my favorite out of the two different cupcakes!!!  The frosting was UN-believably tasty.

Again, I found this recipe off of Pinterest from Your Cup of Cake.  You can check out the recipe on that site!  The only thing that I changed to the recipe was that I used light cream cheese, light sour cream, and I added a raspberry to top off the cupcake, otherwise it was all the same.  These cupcakes are moist, sweet, and you won't be able to get enough(not gonna lie!)  They did take a little while to whip together, but they are soo worth the time!

~Delightful~

Cupcakes Galore!

Happy Tuesday All:) We're almost to hump day, Wednesday which means half way through the week!!!

This past weekend, I was a mission to make a couple different kinds of cupcakes.  I thought, cupcakes are going to be pretty quick and easy to make, so why not try a couple different ones!  Well, I was right on the easy part(or at least the ones that I whipped put together, but I wasn't right on it being quick.  I found many different recipes on the lovely and addicting Pinterest.  So, I made my cupcakes from one of the recipes I found off the net!

The cupcakes were easy, but took about 2.5 - 3 hours to make and didn't get started until 7 o'clock at night!  So, by the time I had all the cupcakes ready to go, I still had to clean up and didn't get to bed until 11:30 or midnight!  Oh well, it was worth it!  They are soo moist, and delicious!

Now, on to the best part, the recipe and mouth-watering pictures:)

Delicious!!!

Adding a Touch of Spring!

Hey everybody!!!  I hope you had a fantastic Monday and are ready for Tuesday:)  Today, I was surprised to see my new BirchBox in the mail!!!  There are some great goodies and things that I will love to try out.  Once I try out the products, I will let you know how I like them.

Enough about BirchBox, I wanted to show you my fabulous, springy pin wheels that I made:)  I've been seeing them every where and decided why not make my own.  It still hasn't found a home yet, but I'm sure it soon will be!

So Springy!

Chocolate Covered Chips

Just a quick post for today, I wanted to share with you the chocolate covered chips that I made.  I discovered this yummy recipe from Grateful Belly!

They were easy and delicious.  It just takes a little bit of time.  I found in order to add the white chocolate to the chips you need to have an icing bottle to squeeze the white chocolate onto the chips.

My first couple chips I choose to use a spoon to drizzle the white chocolate on the chips.  That didn't work out so well, the white chocolate was uneven and didn't look the best.  So, that's when I whipped out the icing bottles.  I would suggest doing the same thing if you choose to add white chocolate to your chocolate covered chips.

They were delish!

My little helper:)

Well, that's all that I have for today!  You can check out the recipe/how to for these chips on the Grateful Belly:) 

Hope you all have a fantastic Thursday!!!  We are soo close to the weekend...woohooo!!!  

Thanks for stopping by:):):)

Until next time!!!!

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Raspberry Surprise

I'm soo excited that it is Thursday because that means that I have my 4 day weekend to look forward to:)  I will be spending time with family and friends, and start a little Spring cleaning!  Do any of you have any plans over Easter weekend?

I still haven't shared with you all what else I made last Friday for dinner!  Like I posted last Friday, I wanted to make a dessert that was summery and I choose to make, what I call, Raspberry Surprise!!!  This recipe takes a while to complete it, mainly because it has to set up, bake, and setup, but it's well worth it:)

Yummy in my Tummy:)

It doesn't take too many ingredients:

2 cs of pretzels (broken into pieces)
1 large box of raspberry Jell-o (6 oz)
1 c of sugar
1/2 c of butter, melted
1 container of Cool Whip whipped topping(8 oz)
2-3 cups of frozen or fresh raspberries
3 Tblsps of sugar
2 cups of boiling water
1 package of cream cheese (8 oz)

Ingredients

If you wanted to cut back on the calories then you put in sugar free Jell-o, light Cool Whip and cream cheese.

First you must combine broken pretzels, butter and sugar.  I used a big zip lock baggie and put all of those ingredients in there and shook it up.  Put into a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes.  Let that cool off and then continue to the next step.

Add ingredients listed above to bag and shake.

Then, in a mixing bowl,  put in sugar and cream cheese until it's smooth.  Add in cool whip as you are mixing it.  Take this mixture and spread on top of the pretzel layer.

Mix it up!

Last, Mix together Jell-o, boiling water, and raspberries.  Let cool and set for a little while.  Put this mixture over top of the cream cheese layer.  Set in fridge until it is firm.

Boil

Overall, this recipe is easy, but does take a little longer than I thought that it would because you have to wait a while for the first layer to cool down and then you have to wait for everything to set up.  One thing to keep in mind, is that the crust doesn't stay crunchy for too long.  I made it very late on Thursday night and by early Friday night it was just starting to get a little soogie.  Make sure you serve and eat this dessert within 2 days tops.

What a delish dish:)

I hope you enjoy what is left to your Thursday!!!

Thanks for stopping by:):):)

Until next time!!!!!!

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Baked Onion Rings!

One of my favorite foods, hands down, is onion rings!  I know they have the tendency to give you bad breath, but it's soo worth it!  I don't know why I love them so much, but I do, it's a problem of mine:)  I found some delicious looking home-made onion ring recipes to try on Pinterest and the one I chose was this one from Annie's Eats:)

I changed it up just a tiny bit because I couldn't find one of the ingredients it called for!

Ingredients:

1/2 C of flour divided
1 large egg
1/2 C of buttermilk
1/4 tsp. of cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 1/2 sleeves of vegetable Ritz crackers
4 C of kettle cooked potato chips
2 large onions
6 tbsp of canola oil

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.  In a shallow baking dish, such as a bowl, measure 1/4 of a cup of flour.  Grab another bowl and mix together the egg and buttermilk.  Next add in your remaining dry ingredients ( flour, cayenne pepper, salt, pepper).  Take out your food processor and put in the Ritz crackers and the potato chips until they are finely ground.

Put in food processor

Baked Fish Tacos

So, on Friday, I posted what I wanted to serve for dinner for my family.  I thought that I would share with you the fish recipe first and how it all turned out!  I found the Parmesan Crusted Tilapia from Recipe Center.

For the most part, I would keep that recipe the same except for the Paprika!  The fist was more than a little spicy.  You could almost not eat it because it was soo spicy.

Tilapia Fish Tacos

Easter is Just Around the Corner!

Hey everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend! I think I could use another day, but I guess this coming weekend will be extra long:)  So, I can get my extra day then!!!

Last weekend,  I was working on an Easter project.   I made this to go with my Easter Egg Wall Art:)

Egg-cellent Art

Hey All!  I'm pretty excited to share with you what project I was working on this past weekend!  I was having Hobby Lobby with drawls, so I thought I would stop by and see what I could find.  As always, I didn't come out empty handed!  I bought quite a variety of things and didn't end up spending too much money.  I'm proud of myself for that because usually Hobby Lobby = bad news for my pocket book...yikes!!!!

Anyways, I made some good purchases,  my favorite purchase was these Easter eggs.  You might say, but why, they are soo plain!  I beg to differ because you can do many things with them:)  One of those things that you could use the eggs for is this wall art!

~Spring Love~

Say Cheese!!!

It's Sunday morning, here in Iowa, and the sun is shining without a cloud in the sky:)  I have all sorts of things planned to finish for today like: take our doggie for walk, clean the house, make dinner, and go into town to get some errands done!  Do you all have a long list of things to wrap up before the weekend comes to an end?

Yesterday, I shared with you my Walnut and Grape Salad and today I wanted to share with you my Mac n' Cheese recipe.  I thought the salad and the Mac n' Cheese went very well together and I think that I will be whipping it together again because it was such a hit with the hubby and my guests:)

Yummy!!!

Walnut and Grape Salad:)

Hey All:)  I have been pretty busy this weekend and it has been filled with lots of time spent with family and friends!  Last night, my lil sis came over along with a friend and I made some delicious supper!  Then we went to see The Hunger Games and I was super excited to go see it:)  We watched the movie in a smaller town, so it wasn't completely sold out, which was nice because then we weren't sitting on top of each other.

I knew the movie wasn't going to be as good as the book and I was right.  I do have to say though, it was good and the actors did a pretty good job.  In my opinion, better than Twilight actors.  I love the movie/series Twilight, don't get me wrong, but the acting just wasn't the best:(  The costumes in The Hunger Games were definitely out there along with their hair and accessories!

Before we went to the movie, like I said before, I made supper, and one of the dishes I made was a Walnut and Grape Salad!  It did turn out pretty tasty.  I found the recipe off of My Recipes, but I did change it just a teenie bit.

Ingredients:

2 cups of walnut halves
1/3 cup of Light Olive Oil
2 tablespoon sugar
1 tsp of salt
1/4 c White Wine Vigenar
2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp of ground pepper
1 lb of lettuce
1 1/2 c of halved red seedless grapes
1 c finely slivered red onion
2 tablespoons of tarragon

Ingredients

A Mod Podge Day:)

Whoop!  Whoop!!  It's Thursday and it only means two things: 1. My fav shows are on tonight and 2. It's almost FRIDAY:)  I'm digging that it's almost Friday because it's the weekend and it means let The Hunger Games begin!!!  So completely excited for it:):)

I have been trying to find some lovely decorations or at least inspiration for crafts that we can display in our basement.  I thought it would be a neat idea to include our last intail "J" in our decor.  I wanted to personalize it to our color scheme that we'll have in the basement.  So, I ran over to Hobby Lobby, and bought a cardboard "J", and some scrapbook paper to cover it with.  This is what I came up with!

Teal, Gray, and Purple:)

Two of My Favorites!

This girl had such a busy and fun filled weekend with the hubby, mom, and friends:)  Saturday my mom came to visit and later on that night I went out to eat with two of my besties to a yummy Japanese Hibachi Steak Grill!!! Then today I went shopping with my friends and I found some colorful finger nail polishes.

I've been experimenting with different designs on my nails.  Last night was a complete fail, the design that I added to my deep navy blue polish looked terrible.  So, I decided to try something different and fresh to start the beginning of the fabulous week work:)  Teal and purple are my new favorite colors for decorations or really just anything!  For my new nail polish design those are the colors that I decided to use:)

CoLoRFuL!!!!

I found these lovely nail polishes at Sally Beauty Supply Store!  I almost didn't get these being it's Sunday today and the stores usually close around 6.  We arrived at 5:45 and the clerk wasn't too happy with us, but we were out of there before 6!  What looks like a white sheet of paper next to the polishes is actually finger tape for a french manicure.

Spring Swirl:)

Springy Teal Yarn Wreath

Happy Saturday everyone!!!  It is a very nice day in Iowa.  It is about 60 degrees and the sun is shining and no clouds in sight:)  That sure makes me one happy lady!!!  I really just want to take Lucy for a walk and enjoy the warmth and sunshine, but we'll see if I have time to!

In one of my earlier posts this week, I mentioned how I was lacking on making any crafts and how I've been working on one craft for the past 2 weeks!!  Well, today I just finished it and I wanted to share it with all of you lovely ladies:):)  Since I'm extremely pumped for Spring and just want it to be here already, I made a springy wreath!

Springy Wreath

Peacock Flower Wreath!

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesday:)

I wanted to show you my newest project!  I have made a wreath for our front door!  I love peacock feathers and so that's why I added them to my wreath.  I hope you like it!

Closeup:)

Best Gift:)

Hey Everyone!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend and here we are again, the end of the weekend:(  It always goes by too fast!  I sure had a fabulous weekend because my friend and I went shopping out of town.  Boy, do we do some damage when we go:-o I ended up with waayy more than I needed and planned on spending, but I did find some great finds:)

I have to tell you, that I am one lucky girl!  For V-day the hubby planned on making me a full length mirror for our bedroom:) Since I was a busy bee shopping away yesterday, I'm just now posting about my mirror.

We decided that it would be lots cheaper if it was DIY mirror versus buying one in the store.  These mirrors can run anywhere from $100-$200.....EXPENSIVE!!!!  I believe the mirror that the hubby made was $50, so this was a really good deal:)

Here it is:)