Candy Box Magnets

My latest creation: super cute candy box refrigerator magnets!

Seriously, how often do you get to use crafting as an excuse to eat candy?!

Bulletin Board Jewelry Organizer

My jewelry box doesn't work very well for necklaces so today I decided to make my own jewelry organizer using a bulletin board from Dollar Tree!

Chicken Fajitas, Cilantro Lime Rice & Fresh Tomato Salsa

I made these delicious Chicken Fajitas by combining a few recipes that I adapted from the awesome cookbook: Jamie's Food Revolution.

Getting Rid of Porcelain Sink Stains

BEFORE:

My porcelain sink has acquired some really nasty stains, a problem I'm sure many of you have faced. I tried scrubbing at the stains and used all kinds of cleansers (some I'm sure you should never use on a porcelain sink) but nothing worked. So I looked online and everything required filling up the sink and letting it soak for a couple of hours. Well, not only is it a pain to find a time when you for sure won't need your sink for that long, but I also didn't have a plug that would work for the garbage disposal side. So I put it off.

Kitchen Cabinets

I finished another batch of cabinets!

Here they were before:

Bathroom Makeover

And now back to our regularly scheduled programing...

Now that the party is over I can get back to decorating! I just completed a bathroom makeover for only $88! Here is what it looked like when we moved in:

Nightmare Before Christmas Birthday Party

This is the last post about Jer's birthday party, I promise! Sorry if I have bored you with these. I just wanted to document as much of it as possible for anyone looking for inspiration for their own Nightmare Before Christmas birthday party. I searched all over the place for ideas and couldn't find anything except for some amazing cakes that I could never reproduce and the suggestion to put out all of your Halloween decorations.

So here is what I came up with:

Custom Party Hats

I promise I will get back to posting about something other than kid's birthday parties soon! But for now, here is another party project. Obviously Nightmare Before Christmas party hats are impossible to find but I even tried the over the hill section at the party store looking for plain black ones and came up with nothing. So I decided to just make my own!

I took a party hat I already had, opened it up and traced around it to get my pattern.

Zero the Ghost Dog

Check out my updated tutorial with pattern and photos HERE.

While looking at the invites for Jeremy's party, my husband jokingly suggested that I make a "Zero" decoration. I couldn't get the idea out of my head so I finally decided to give it a try and came up with this:

Italian Sausage Lasagna

I have tried several different lasagna recipes but was never quite happy with any of them. So one day I decided to come up with my own and it turned out to be the Best Lasagna EVER! If I do say so myself. ;) Seriously though, this lasagna never lasts long in our house because it is so addicting. You have been warned.