Pages

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Easy Pumpkin muffins

I love fall, and I love pumpkins!! I saw this on another website and thought I would give it a try. I changed a few things to make it my own.

What you need...

1 box white cake mix
1 can pumpkin

Just mix them together in a large bowl. I then made mini muffins with my mix. cook at 350 for about 15 minutes. Time will change depending on if you make mini muffin's or large muffins, or just a pumpkin cake. There is SO much you can do with this simple mix! Adding powered sugar to the top or cream frosting is also a great treat. We have been eating them for breakfast, snack, lunch and whenever else.

Enjoy this super simple pumpkin muffin mix.

Daily Workout

I saw plenty of different workout tips and tricks on Pinterest, but I wanted something that I would do. I'm not a motivated person in just working out. So I found an idea that I made my own. I looked for many different workouts that I would do. This is what I came up with...



What you need to make this super simple daily work out plan is...



2 Plastic cups
1 sharpie marker
35 pop sickle sticks (I do 5 sticks a day 7 day's a week)

I wrote TO DO on one cup, and DONE!! on the other cup so when I finish a stick I can move it to DONE!! and feel very well about it just being done!

So I've been doing this for a few weeks now and I seem to be working out more now then I have every in my life. There are some day's that I might not do all 5, but I don't let that bother me. I do what I can for the day. No stress!

I hope that you can also find motivation to do a work out everyday.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

DIY Quoted Canvas

My husband and I are expecting our first child in March, so the brain storming has begun as to how to decorate the baby's room. As I was thinking, a Bible verse that we pray over the baby everyday came to mind. This was it. I'll put the Bible verse on canvas, paint it and hang above the crib. 

Here's what I used:
Canvas - I bought a 20x24 size
Paint - I used Mysteria
A Cricut machine
Vinyl

I used the Opposites Attract cartridge. I tested a few letter sizes until I got the one I wanted. There were two words within the verse that I wanted to have stand out from the other words, so I cut them out in a different font and made them a little bigger.



Once I had all of the letters cut, I placed them on the canvas. Then I painted the whole canvas, including going over the vinyl letters. I used two coats of paint to make sure it was all covered and no white was showing.




Once it was all dry, I slowly peeled off the vinyl letters. The paint did bleed through a little bit, but I think the effect is pretty cool, so I'm going to keep it as is. If you don't like it with the paint coming through, I would think that getting a small paint brush with some white paint you could paint in the letters and it would look good.