I Freaking Did it Friday #4 and Blog Angel Reveal

Before we get to the party I have a big reveal, I have been participating in being a Blog Angel. Rosie at Craftbotic is the one that came up with this great idea. Being a Blog Angel means that you support your assigned blog. It can be from something as little as commenting on a post, tweeting a post, sharing a post on Facebook or Google +, to something like giving suggestions or sending them a new button or header as a gift if you are good at that type of thing. The funny think about the person that I was an angel to is that she supported me just as much as I did her!

So now onto my Blog Angel, Please meet Ang from Juggling Act Mama.

She has a great blog that is new so make sure to go show her some love! She is married to her high school sweetheart and has 2 little ones. This month besides commenting on her blog I taught her how to turn of word verification..........thank god she listened I HATE WORD VERIFICATION! Then I did a post on How to Make a Recipe Page for Your Blog and clean up your archives. She sent me an email and asked me to share how I did this so I did a post on it and I'll be darned quite a few people seemed to have needed this info. Thanks Ang!

Ang is a great cook and just this month has shared Blueberry Sour Cream Bread,  and How to make a Buttermilk Substitute,   as well as DIY stuff like How to Make your Own Gardner Soap. She also likes to help co-host Link Parties, I tried really hard to get her to do today's thinking how cool would that be for her to co-host on her reveal, but I could not get her to bite so you will just have to wait and see her next week! Anyway I loved getting to know her and look forward to a great Bloggy Friendship! Love you Ang!

How to Get Your Kids to Floss

If there is one thing I hate more than anything it is flossing. My former dentist used to say "you only need to floss the one's you want to keep" I assume he thought that was funny, me not so much. We all know brushing is not enough but some days I am doing good to just get that done.

We are self employed and so our Dental comes straight out of our pocket because it is too costly as a small business to have Dental Insurance. This means that we have to be very careful with our teeth. Not so advantageous when you hate to floss! I was also really lucky to have inherited my mom's bad teeth so I wanted something that would improve my odds. I have been looking at sonic toothbrushes which are 159 times more effective than regular tooth brushes.

Wordless Wednesday

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Meet Lesley from By the Porchlight and a Giveaway

During the Olympics I did an Olympic Party Round Up of great ideas, I also had a giveaway for a Premium Ad Space and the winner was Lesley from By the Porchlight. I asked her to come and guest post and share some of her favorite blog post's so you can get to know her better, I know you will enjoy it. after you check out Lesley check out our group giveaway thanks to my sponsors!

Hi guys! I’m Lesley, the lady behind By thePorchlight. I’m a late 20-something blogger who loves all things creative – DIY, cooking, crafting of all sorts, knitting, home decor, reading. I’d love to have you join me in the fun! Here are a few of my favourite posts that you might be interested in:

I Freaking Did It Fridays #3

TGIF fits this week for sure, however this weekend will be nuts for us. We have a dinner at my sons school tonight, My parents are coming for dinner tomorrow night and then we have my FIL's Birthday Sunday night, whew crazy but fun!

OH and BTW it's advertising time so let me put in my shameless plug 

for you to go to my Advertising Page and Get an Ad! Can you believe how tacky I just was??

So this weeks most viewed were a tie! First up is the cute bright Homework Station from Brooke at Uncommon to carry in her car.

Next is a Guest Post from Leen Machine Paper Studio on DIY Dreamer. She showed how to make some great Glass Magnets.

Now here are some of my fave's

Shaken Together made her own Cream Soda to celebrate her last week of summer vacation. So cool and what a great treat.

Katie at the Crafty Blog Stalker shared links to Make 20 Different Paper Flowers, I think I might try some of these to put on presents instead of bows!

And lastly Tutus and Tea Parties got her craft on with Duct tape and made a Crayon Roll, I think these would make great gifts for kids or party favors

If you were featured and want to should out  a button to put on your blog or post go here!

How to Snip a Screen Shot

Yesterday I shared with you how to make a recipe page and a linky party page for your blog
Every time I sit down to do a post where I have to do a screen shot I forget how, then I look it up and it says to do ALT and PRT SC, well for some reason on my computer it doesn't always work and I am hitting the keys 50 times in utter frustration. While writing yesterdays post I came across the wonders of the windows snipping tool! This tool is the bomb for bloggers!

All you have to do is go to the start menu at the bottom of your screen, it's that little circle that glows at the bottom left.

In the search menu type in snip and you will see a little pair of scissors and the words snipping tool come up in the menu click on it and you will see this.

Then you just drag cut the part of your screen you want to show a picture of.

How to Make a Recipe Page For Your Blog

Recently a few people have asked me how I have made my Recipe Page and Link Party Pages look so nice, so I thought I would share. Read through and I will tell you the extra bonus to this

Here is a look at my Recipes Page:

and here is a snippet of my linky party page called Party With Me.

Both of these pages were really easy to create and keep updated. First you go to InLinkz. When you get there you will need to sign up, this part is free so don't worry. 

Once you sign up you go to The Link Manager.

I Freakin' Did It Friday #2 and Features

This has been a really long week for some reason and I am sooooooooo thankful that the weekend is coming. I am really excited because tomorrow my husbands Kidney donor is giving her testimony at a womens breakfast, I can't wait to share more about that next week. Some of you may also remember the story I shared about Ken in New Orleans that needed a Kidney and his immediate family members were not able to donate or were not a match. Well Ken is getting his Kidney you can find out more here but the unbelievable donor is is SON IN LAW!  To me there is no better news than life, so now it's time for your good news!

The most clicked on post from our first link party was from Posed Perfection showing us 

How to Make Cloudy Glasses Sparkle Again. I think just about everyone could use this!

Now for some of my favorites!

Practically Functional showed us how to make our own paper pads, you won't believe how easy this is. I'm gonna make myself one!

It's back to school time so if you are looking for ways to kiss up to the teacher, Digital Creations has you covered with her Teachers Post It Note Stand. She also includes a free printable with optional colors.

Jessica over at Cox's Corner made a great Burlap Wreath, I just love burlap and you can change out the decorations on it, so smart.

Lemons for Lu Lu shared these wonderful looking S'More Doughnuts they look so good!

and last but no least,  Julie from White Lights on Wednesdays shared a crisp and wonderful 

Wedge Salad with Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing, perfect for summer!

Please go here and grab a Featured button and place it on your blog if you would like! 

Thanks to all of you who linked up. Last week we had over 50 links which made me so happy for my first party! So let's get going I can't wait to see what's in store this week!

Being a Blog Angel

So last month I saw a lot of my favorite blogs participating in Blog Angels. This wonderful idea was created by Rosie at Craftbotic and Katlyn at Dreamy Meadow. The point is to help and support each other. The way you grow a blog is by exposure and lots of help from other bloggers. So at the first of October I was sent an email revealing who I was supposed to stalk be an angel to. I of course immediately started stalking following, commenting, tweeting like a complete dork so I am sure my angel knows who I am, funny thing though I am wondering if she is mine as well hmmmmmm, we will see at the end of the month I guess when we reveal ourselves to our Angels. It has been fun getting to know this blog and I look forward to continuing to stalk follow her.

Tuesday 10: My favorite blog post's

Lena over at Mom2MemphisAndRuby has a great Tuesday link up.  This week she has asked to write a post about your 10 favorite post's from your blog.  This is a great way for first timers or people new to my blog to see a lot in one place. This is my first time joining thanks to Julie at White Lights on Wednesday for introducing me to this party!

OK so here we go my #1 favorite, ok I will admit it's also gotten the most traffic Crockpot Lotion Bars

Safe Summer Travel

This summer we traveled quite a bit there was a trip to California for 10 days. 

We visited Lego Land, the set of Good Luck Charlie,

Here are some of my favorite pics from the San Diego Zoo, This panda is sitting in a baby pool eating a carrot, so cute!

I Freakin Did it Friday #1 and Amazon GC Winners

First I want to thank everyone who linked up to the Blog Hop with Miss Information and Real Momma, we had a really great time reading all 96 links. I am so excited to have the first of my weekly linky party called

Held every Friday. To say I am nervous about the work this will be is an understatement but I am also very excited to learn more great stuff from all of you! Every week I will feature the most viewed link as well as some highlights. So the most viewed link from Last weeks Blog hop and winner of a $25 Amazon Gift Card is Hani from Craftionary and her link of

We also had a Raffle and to find out the winner of the Raffle go on over to Laura's at Real Momma and you can see some of her favorites from the Blog Hop. 

Congrats to both of you and I hope you will be back every Friday!

Now onto a few highlights, in honor of Hani's post I have to feature the wonderful Bonnie and Trish from Uncommon. These ladies have been so supportive to me while starting my blog and they have always answered any question I had. A few of the Jars in Hani's post are from them. Here are there Oh Joy Apothecary Jars, so festive and they have used these jars for lots of different holidays

Next up are these great Angry Bird Cupcakes from Living With My Blessings

I fell in love with this Anniversary Wall from de Jong Dream House. They have a frame for every anniversary with predictions of where they will be on that anniversary.

I am so excited about this link from Second Chance to Dream and her 

Back to School Sandwichless Lunch Ideas, we have already done the pizzas in the muffin tins and the kids loved them!

Please go here and grab a Featured button and place it on your blog if you would like! If you were on the bog hop I am working on linking all your posts to Pinterest and will do so with the link parties as well you can go see it here.

Now let's get linkin!

 

A Minnie Mouse Birthday and Spaghetti Salad

So the evening after Matthew's Haircut we went to Leslie’s Birthday Party. Since it was Minnie Mouse themed I am using the Disney Walter Font, hmmmm kind of annoying isn’t it….. There that's better she is lucky enough to have some wonderful Aunts who decked out a family members pool for the event. These ladies thought of EVERYTHING. When we pulled up and got out Minnie  guided our path to the Party

At the end of this I am going to share a fabulous recipe that was on the menu as a bonus, Here’s a peak of it!

So the pool was decked out in Pink and White and here are all the great decorations. They used dollar store table clothes under the deck to make a canopy effect.

Here is the great Happy Birthday Banner they made with tulle ribbon and Minnie Heads

All of the food had these cute little signs so you would know what you were eating or drinking

I had to throw this picture of the most docile sweet dog ever hiding like a little kid under the table, I think he is saying I’m hiding and waiting for whatever someone drops!

The main course was cheese burgers shaped like Mickey’s Head. She used a cookie cutter to make these. So cute!

The desserts were cupcakes and cookies. These unbelievable cookies were made by a teacher at Becky’s School

 

OK so on to one of the best Pasta Salads I have had in a long time

Ingredients

1 box angel hair pasta

Whishbone Italian Dressing (the small bottle)

Mc Cormick Salad Seasoning

*Red Onion diced

Bell Pepper diced

Cherry Tomatoes cut in half

*You can sub any veggies you want with what you have on hand

Cook the noodles and poor on the Italian dressing  and the salad seasoning and toss. Put in the fridge to cool, (it is best to do it overnight or cook your noodles in the morning and put in the fridge all day.) Toss in your veggies and you are done. This was so light and so flavorful I had to have 2 servings….

So you know how I told you these ladies thought of everything check out these cute signs for the bathrooms

 

There was one more surprise at this party that I must share. The couple that owns the house has a sweet spot for the wild animals that they share the space with so they provide feed for the deer. These deer hung out the entire party in the back yard and it was amazing to watch and be this close. When one would run off, Matthew would ask where the reindeer were going.

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Kids giving Kids Haircuts

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My son Matthew who is almost 4 had his best buddy Leslie (pronounced by Matthew as Les-ul-lee) who was born 11 days before him and is the exact female version of him personality wise over for a play date. Her mother and I often call each other to lament. They call each other boyfriend and girlfriend. It is pretty funny.

Leslie and her brother often come hang with my boys and they all get along really well. Friday Becky, her mom, needed to work in her classroom at school so I had the kids for the day.
Matthew comes downstairs and I take a second look and I see this!

Yes apparently Leslie decided to give Matthew a haircut. While trying not to laugh I asked who cut the hair and these two both blamed the other. I have to say the level of cover up was impressive they were really good at the cover up. Now the funny part was that they hid the cut off hair behind Matthews bed thinking we would not notice....really? Now poor Becky came by after school and was mortified. All I could do was laugh because I was the girl that did stuff like that when I was little. One time I almost drowned our dog in the toilet trying to potty train her because I saw on TV where they had trained Cats to use the potty. Let's just say I had compassion for the girl.

So Saturday it was off to the wonderful Susie at 97 Main Salon. She was nice enough to stay a little late to fix this for us. Thank you Susie!

Now the best part of the haircut was listening to Susie explain how you need to have a license to cut hair and if you don't have a license then you are breaking the law. She then went on to elaborate because he was so into this story that he started wondering if Leslie was going to get arrested. Susie explained that this time she would get off with a warning. I was trying so hard not to laugh. Anyway I have to say this was a good thing because he actually looks so sweet with the new haircut!

Here we are the little stooges that evening at Leslie's Birthday Party which I will feature for you later in the week!

Hey what can you say kid's will be kid's and sometimes there is a good ending!

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