Oh How Pinteresting...

Katelyn over at A Wife’s Life does a weekly post called ‘Oh how Pinteresting Wednesday’. Love the idea. And through my blog creeping on The Vintage Apple, I see that lots of crafty people are doing it also. Stealing it!

Ornament Wreath idea from Eddie Ross

I absolutely HATE wire hangers so I am all for putting one to death for the sake of crafting. Plus this would a great weeknight craft to do when I need to escape from nursing school.

Glitter ornaments! Homemade, cheap and easy (just like my friend Jenna!)

 Love these! I’m decorating my tree with a bunch of these this year instead of buying ornaments. I’m thinking red and silver to make my living room decor.

Homemade air fresheners

 These are going to be made soon before Yankee Candles, Bath and Body wallflowers and Scentsy drain my bank accounts. I love living with my boys (Boyfriend and dog) but it’s a constant battle to keep this place smelly yummy.

Homemade pop-tarts!!

Pop-tarts are always on the grocery list, when I’m runny late they are usually my breakfast so I’m not late to class. A homemade alternative that is healthier and any flavor I want sounds AMAZING!!!

Relationship timeline wall

I can’t wait to do a wall like this! We don’t have any long hallway walls right now plus we don’t have any significant milestones like an engagement or wedding so this one can wait.

Confetti Artwork-I have to decide where to put one 

Knock-off anthropology confetti tumblers

Snack bottles

 Side note- I did find the picture for these on pinterest Sunday but I already use several for snacks around our apt. I got the idea from Dana at Love Like This Life but I can’t find the exact post where she talks about how she uses them to put snacks in for her husband. He is paralyzed from the chest down so has limited use of his arms and hands and this keeps the snacks from getting everywhere.

Car kit. Why didn’t I think of this?

EVERYDAY I think this…college life sucks

Sorry for the long post, I didn’t do anything this weekend so I had tons of Pinterest finds to share! 

~Marissa

A weekend of nothing.

This weekend I got to do my favorite thing, nothing…all weekend. Well I actually did a lot around the apartment but thanks to Homecoming week at school, I had no projects, papers or test to study for! I ran a lot of errands, vacuumed, dusted and relaxed. It was glorious. I’m still nursing a wicked sinus infection so my system is packed full of amoxicillin and flonase.

Saturday I decided to make tailgate food for the Notre Dame game and I must say I impressed myself. I made BBQ pulled chicken in the crockpot, Jalapeño pinwheels, Jimmy Dean dip (sausage, cream cheese and ro*tel in the small crockpot), and oreo poke cake! Sean was super happy and miserable from eating too much, but the Irish won! Woo-hoo!

Don’t they look amazing?

After sleeping for 12 hours like a rock I decided to do some long overdue crafts on Sunday. Our bathrooms have no wall decor so that was my goal for the day. But I wanted to use things We had laying around the apartment that weren’t being used. Yay for free crafts!

I downloaded LOTS of free printables from Sprik Space who I found through Katelyn and her latest 'Oh How Pintersting' Wednesday post. What an awesome find!

Before

 I laid out all my frames on the floor, face down to get the perfect arrangement. Then I laid 3 pieces of wax paper taped together on top and marked out the light switch so I could avoid that. Being the idiot that I am, I used a permanent marker with the wax paper against the wall when marking the light switch and accidentally marked the wall. Thank goodness for magic erasers! Back to work, I marked the top, center part of the frame so that when I hung up the wax paper I could simply hammer through the marks and everything would be right where I want it! Please note my beautiful assistant…he kept walking over the wax paper so I put him up there to get out of the way.

After!

I already had the frames and just had to print the images! So easy!

I think I may add a few more but I’m out of frames. I’m glad I finally found a purpose for all my black frame though. I seriously think I had a frame problem, I used to buy them whenever I went to the store.

I even put some in Sophie’s bathroom. These all reminded me of her. 

So thankful for a relaxing weekend!

~Marissa