Hope You All Have A...

The ones that got away...

Happy Weekend...

{Snow Cowboy}

I hope you are all having a great weekend~ My husband was on vacation all last week. We didn't go anywhere, just stayed around the house and worked on my NEW craft room the whole week.

 I CANNOT wait to start crafting in there!!!!

  We did take some time to go up to the mountain by our home and play in the snow.

I have so many Christmas ideas that I want to share with you all~

But for now, I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving week...

Remember to relax and enjoy it!

Let talk Pinterest...

Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest...~I get better craft/cooking/photography/etc ideas there then I do from most magazines. I love sitting on my bed at night and pinning items onto my boards right from my iPad. BUT what good does it do if you aren't going to try the ideas out?  SOOOO I decided to blog about the ideas that I like that work and even the things I wasn't so crazy about. 

First off lets talk about some pins I'm not so crazy about: I like some of the quotes people put on there, but really, don't believe everything you read! One quote said, "It takes running across a football field to burn the calorie of just one M&M"-PUUUUUULEEEASE! Seriously, my body burns one M&M calorie by just trying to get the bag open. Another that I just read today said that "If you dream about someone it means THEY are missing you-Psychological fact."

   Hello? 

That's probably why I found humor in the sign above. 

Now onto things I liked alot... 

First off...This chili was REALLY good. We have made it twice....

The recipe and photo comes from HOW TO: SIMPLIFY.  I'm not putting the recipe on here because I don't want anyone pinning if from my site. Go HERE to pin and to get the recipe.  What I will say is that the lime is important and that I am crazy about cilantro but left it out due to those who don't like it in my family. I, however, added LOTS of it as a garnish to my own bowl.  This is not a spicy recipe-I'd put it more in the category of comfort food.  You can also find it on my

 Gluten Free Pinterest board. 

Secondly... Ikea $4.00 spice racks used as kids bookshelves. I pinned it from the blog, Wonderful Joy Ahead. You can also find it on my Pinterest "kids" board.

I like the idea but am only using it by Noelle's bed for nighty-time books. She has so many books that a bunch of Ikea spice racks would look lame holding all of them. We will build a big bookshelf instead.  I don't think the Ikea spice rack is a good idea if you have monkeys active children who like to climb on things-I say this from experience...My oldest son was a climber when he was a toddler and these bookshelves wouldn't have lasted a second!

Noelle's little reading area.

"My little Gems" added Yard sticks to her Ikea spice/book racks. Click HERE to see...She even painted them.

Lastly, the spice racks are hard to find. They aren't very big all packaged up. They are in the kitchen section but I actually had to have a employee walk me right to them.  They were just sitting on a shelf-No display.
Here is what they look like all packaged up:

You can see them online HERE.

To see all of my Pinterest boards click HERE-But a little advanced warning...

I'm kinda on a Christmas kick right now!

Word-Full Wednesday...

I like seeing other people do Wordless Wednesday on their blogs-BUT always wish I knew where they took their pictures. So here are some photos I took a couple of weeks ago when Fall was just hitting the area...AND where I took them.

The Hoh River right outside of Forks, on the road to the rain forest.

Fall on the Hoh River

Our granddaughter Noelle in Forks Washington

I took this picture from the passenger seat of our truck going 50 miles an hour over the Hood Canal bridge-Olympic mountains @ sunset.

Hope you are all having a GREAT week.