Confession

I have a confession to make. A reason why I haven't been posting as much. I have been having a secret love affair. Such a whirlwind affair. It has been amazing really. Life changing.

My new love and I spend so much time together! My love has inspired me to create new art. Actually I've probably spent too much money at Hobby Lobby and Michael's lately. That is one downside to my new love, no money or gifts have been lavished upon me. BUT we've made some delicious food together. Like any relationship I'm sure I've eaten more as we've gone on this new journey together. Together we made this delicious butterscotch dessert for Thanksgiving. Friday, made creamy italian crockpot chicken. For today, chicken tortilla soup in the crockpot. My new love makes sure I am eating well.




My new love has even inspired me to organize my life. So far this week I've organized under the kitchen sink, the hall closet, and my scrapbook room. And the romance, oh the romantic quotes that have been shared. Oh and how funny my love is! Some funny, witty things come up! My new love makes me want to try new make up tricks and buy some fun new outfits. I won't lie, there are even some ideas that have been thrown around for a future wedding. I have plenty of photos of bling that I wouldn't mind having that I've shared with my love. I took a walk this morning and as I turned back onto my street my first thought was "Oh I can't wait to get back so I can get back to my love." Ok so maybe love affair isn't the right word. Maybe it is more of an obsession. After all, I think many people are having a love affair with Pinterest. I don't think it is just me. I guess maybe it's cruel irony that my love affair/obsession with Pinterest keeps me in the house instead of actually out looking for a real love affair? Hmm...anyways, gotta get back to pinning....

Inspired

Lately I've been inspired to try some new things. Probably all due to Pinterest. I got this idea from Pinterest to make ham and swiss crescent rolls. Caylea loved them! Why have I not thought of this before? Super easy and good.

Since I've had the crockpot out lately I decided to throw in some chicken on Saturday and when it was done turn it into Buffalo chicken sandwiches. It was yummy! Again not sure why I don't use my crock pot more often. I think I would eat more protein if I did. Chicken definitely turns out yummier for me in the crock pot than in the oven. Sidenote: Blogger is killing me with stupid, weird spacing issues!

Creating new things

So today I was hit with the desire to make something so I went to my boards on pinterest to find something that had caught my eye. I recreated this button tree. Here is the original and then below is mine. I wasn't able to get the shadowing on the tree but otherwise I was pretty happy with how it turned out!

So then I decided this was pretty cute. But once I got to this point I was a little worried about trying to screw in the little hooks and ruining the frame. So I skipped that part for now.

While I was working on my projects I had soup going in the crockpot. Found the recipe on pinterest too. It was SO good! Chicken, rotel, corn, black beans, cream cheese, dry ranch dressing mix, and some chili powder. Really, really good. It had a little kick to it but not bad. I added some sour cream and it was kind of like a chicken chili. I'm now motivated to try to make some more things I found on pinterest!