Crafting, DIY and LIfe
Happy Friday everyone! Are you ready to share your latest creation? I hope so because I love seeing new crafts, recipes and do it yourself projects linked each and every week!
It is time to the party…
That’s right, it is time to link up your newest projects and recipes from the last week! [Read more...]
Happy Thursday! I hope you are having a fabulous week so far. I’ve spent the bulk of mine stuck on the couch with a knee injury. It has been less than fun to saw the least. BUT, it has given me more time to visit the links from the Pinworthy Projects Party. Today, I’m featuring YOU with a round up of some of the best links from last week’s party!
Before we get started, I want to remind you of the AWESOME social media link up going on right now! Today’s Let’s Connect Thursday is all about Twitter pages. Click over to link up yours and watch your Twitter following grow!
Now, let’s get started!
DIY Project Bleach Art Fabric Napkins from Dagmar’s Home
Blog conferences are a great way to meet people. In fact, I met 5 other ladies at a recent one {Snap, holla!} that I’ve partnered with to bring you THE social media link party to at: Let’s Connect Thursday. Six different hosts means there are 6 sets of readers linking up. Greater exposure and a lot more link ups!
Meet the Hosts!
The Craft Nest //Designed Decor //Swish Printables //Creative Juice // Just Us Four //La Belle Parties
To add to the fun, we have a featured co-host. This week, the co-host is:
Each week, we’ll have a new social media platform as the main theme of our link party.
This week, we’re linking up our Twitter pages!
I’m sure you already know that Twitter is fast becoming a primary way many readers connect with blogs!
So, growing your Twitter following = growing your blog following!
Join the twitter party and link up your Twitter page {NOT your blog homepage or a post link, please}
Your link will automatically appear on all 6 blogs!
Remember: Follow your Hosts and visit the others!
** The BEST way to grow is to spread the love.**
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The love for Tex-Mex and Mexican food in our house is pretty obvious! You can see it week after week in my What to Cook Wednesday weekly menus. Plus, we’re regulars at our local Mexican restaurant and you’ll always find salsa in the house.
Typically, I focus on more traditional salsa and guacamole {although, I have been known to make the guacamole with bacon!}, but I decided I wanted to try my hand at a salsa verde recipe for something a little different.
Full disclosure, Staples.com provided me with this Keurig OfficePRO Coffee Brewer for the purpose of this review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. To see the full line of Keurig brewers and K-cups, visit Staples.
I’m a coffee junkie. If you know me, follow me on any social media or saw me at Snap!, you know that I just don’t function well without my daily latte. I’m also a sleep junkie too though which makes getting my daily latte each morning a little difficult.
Recently, my office changed their {already turrible} parking policy making parking even harder to find when I arrive. This did not bode well for my sleep and coffee love affairs. So, I went searching for solutions for the lazy coffee junkie {i.e. me}!
Happy Wednesday!
I love that our Wednesdays here on the blog are filled with delicious recipes. Putting together a weekly menu is so much easier when you can find inspiration all around blog land. One of my favorite parts of the week is looking through all of the recipes I find and narrowing them down into a menu for the week. I guess that is how this little What to Cook Wednesday series has made it to 100!
Let’s see what the 100th edition brings us in terms of food…
Sunday: You can add prosciutto to just about anything and I am happy. That probably a big reason why chicken with prosciutto, argula and fontina caught my eye.
Monday: We don’t traditionally do pasta on Mondays but, as a meatless option, I fell in love with the idea of lemony spinach and goat cheese linguine.
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of CB2 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
CB2 is a one of those stores that is filled with high style and lots of design inspiration. Now, CB2 has partnered with Robert and Cortney Novogratz to bring the influence of Brasil into a new the new CB2 and Novogratz Collection.
The collection is filled with warm wood tones and pops of color. It brings in the fun of a vacation home in Brasil to your home. A few of my favorite items from the collection
I love the bright colors that are intermixed in the collection. It is just enough to really make the items fun but still fit well into any home. The Rouge Coffee Table is definitely my favorite item in the collection.
In addition to offering access to some high style inspried by Brasil through the new CB2 and Novogratz Collection, CB2 is offering a chance to win a trip of a lifetime in the CB2 and Novogratz Brasil Sweepstakes.
Well, I hope all the moms out there had a great Mother’s Day! I was truly spoiled {as usual} by my family. As part of May’s photo glimpse, I thought I would share a little bit of my mother’s day with you!
My Mother’s Day really started on Friday when I was surprised with these beauties
And yes that is a potted plant in my cup holder. You don’t keep one there too?
Back when school started {eons ago right?!}, our house was flooded with paperwork and I created artwork binders for each of our kids. Well, plain binders are pretty ugly and boring sitting on our a bookcases in the family room. So, I decided to turn them into fabric wrapped binders to blend in a little better while still offering the organizing I was looking for.
Kindly ignore the label still on one of them. H insisted that I leave it in there and it wasn’t a battle I was willing to fight.
Photos are so important when it comes to blogging. I’m still majorly working on mine but definitely recognize the important of good photos in a post…hence the constantly working on it part! There are a few things that make getting great photos a little easier. One big helper: a photo backdrop stand. Using a backdrop stand allows you to easily make sure your background is clean and shows off your photo in the best light. They make handy soccer goals in a pinch too 
Anyone else see the irony in my posting about the importance of good blog pictures and then giving you this as my finishing product? The rest of the post pictures are better…pinky promise.
