Valentine's Day - In pictures

Valentine's decorations.

Pink crepes with strawberries and raspberries.

Valentine's treats.

Flowers

Pizza that was supposed to be heart-shaped but doesn't quite look like it.

Cupcakes!

Hope you had a nice Valentine's day. We just ran a few errands in town, went on a walk, and ate our fill of sweets before heading off to the evening service at church.

Five for Friday

Bonjour! How are you?

I hope you all had a good week! I am linking up with Della Devoted, Coffee With Caitlin, and Cup of Tea for another edition of Five for Friday!

1. I got a new phone this week. It was a real pain trying to get it set up! I don't know what the guy at the store did, but I ended up having to come home, completely reset my phone to factory settings, and then download all the content from icloud again. Anyways, I am glad it is finally working! Which brings me to my second point...

2. Trying to pick a phone case! It is turning out to be more difficult than I thought. I have always had an Otterbox on my phone, but I was thinking of doing a regular case with tempered glass. I want something protective, but not too expensive. So for the time being, I am almost afraid to even use my phone! Do you have any suggestions on cases? I have the iPhone 5s.

3. There's a craft store near where my sister takes Tae Kwon Do that my mom has been talking about. She finally took me and I ended up with a lot of fun stuff! It's a little local place and it was really cheap!

4. I'm not sure what is going on with the weather app on my phone...but I'm pretty sure it's not 79 degrees anywhere right now!

5. My mom, sister and I painted these hearts for Valentine's day. We were going to write the sayings on them (like on the conversation hearts), but we can't seem to find our paint pens! Oh well, they still look fun!

Have a great weekend!

Valentine's day card garland

Hello! Today I'm sharing another Valentine's day garland. (Check out the other one here) 

I had some playing cards lying around and I thought they would make a fun garland. I looked around on Pinterest for some ideas, but I couldn't find any garlands that I liked using playing cards.

All you need is:

-4-inch doilies

-2 decks of cards (I had a couple decks already that were different sizes and different colors. Just use whatever you have!)

-red yarn (White would look nice as well.)

-red & white bakers twine (I got mine at Target, but this would be great as well.)

-a glue stick

-scotch tape

-a hole punch

Start off by taking a small piece of scotch tape and wrapping it around the end of the yarn. Then twist the very tip a bit so it forms a point.

Thread the end of the yarn through the doilies. 

 Using the hole punch, punch a hole about 3/4 of an inch from the top of the card.

 Cut the twine about 6 inches long. If you are using two full decks, you will need 18 pieces of string cut into 6 inch pieces. (I ended up being short one card.)

 Thread the bakers twine through the card then around the yarn and tie a bow. Then flip the card up and, using the glue stick, swipe some glue onto the doily and press the card back down.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out (if I do say so myself!). Hope you enjoy it too!

Browned butter chocolate chip skillet cookie

Skillet cookies have been on my list of things to bake for quite a while. I revised my chocolate chip cookie recipe to make this delicious browned butter chocolate chip skillet cookie.

1 stick (8 tblsp.) butter

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp. baking soda

About a cup of chocolate chips

1. Preheat over to 350°F.

2. Make browned butter in a medium sized skillet. Set aside for about 5 minutes to cool.

3. Add sugars to browned butter and mix together. Then mix in the egg and vanilla.

4. Add flour and baking soda and stir.

5. Mix in the chocolate chips.

6. Flatten dough with the back of the spoon so it covers the bottom of the skillet.

7. Bake for 10-13 minutes. (I overcooked mine slightly. You want it to be a little doughy looking still.)

8. Remove from oven and top with ice cream, chocolate syrup, and caramel if desired. 

Enjoy!

Five for Friday

Hello everyone and hope you all had a good week. I am linking up with Coffee With Caitlin, Cup of Tea, and Della Devoted for another Five for Friday post.

1. My dad and I saw American Sniper earlier this week. We both though it was really, good (we could have done without the excessive use of the f-word, but that's probably just us :/ ) Anyways, it was a pretty good movie.

2. There's going to be Doctor Who Legos. I'm pretty sure it's going to be awesome.

3. I just came across this website named soundrown. It's a site with different noises you can listen to. Such as the rain, waves, or birds. And you can combine noises so you can listen to rain and the ocean. It's pretty nice if you want some background noise!

4. Have you seen Jimmy Fallon's lip sync battle? If you haven't you need to because it's really funny! They're all pretty good, but I think my favorite is either Jimmy doing Kelly Clakrson (at the 2:28 mark) or Will Ferrell doing Let It Go (at the 6:25 mark).

5. So, this happened last night. Entirely unhealthy, but extremely good! Recipe coming soon!

See you on Monday!

Quick and easy Valentine's day garland

Today I thought I would share a quick and easy Valentine's day garland. I don't have any decorations for Valentine's day, so I went searching for some ideas on Pinterest. I came across some garlands similar to this one, so I thought I would share what I made.

All you will need to make this garland is some pink, red, and white pompoms, as well as a needle and thread. Pretty simple!

I purchased these white pompoms, these red pompoms, and these pink pompoms on Amazon.

Knot one end of the string and thread the pom poms on! Pretty simple and makes a fun decoration!

Superbowl Sunday recap

Sunday we ran a couple of errands in the afternoon, and then came back and fixed some food while watching the game. The food was quite good..

 

The game was good until the last quarter :/ We were pretty disappointed with the outcome of the game. It was difficult to watch the Seahawks lose at the 1 yard line!
I guess there is always next year! We will always be Seahawks fans!