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Pinteresting Home Projects!

Of course I’ve been on Pinterest hunting ideas for the house what kind of pinner would I be if I didn’t!?

Here’s a few that might interest you as much as they interest me!

Lining the inside of my bedside cabinets for a little POP of color! I recently painted my side tables white and can’t wait to do something fun like this with them!

Here’s our before side table picture.

And the after! How fun would it be to line the insides of those babies with something fun?

We are in need of something fun for our front door mat. The space is very simple and I’d love to have a great pattern as soon as you come in. Creating my own from fabric sounds easy and fun!

You have no idea how badly I want to frame all the bathroom mirrors in this house!! As soon as I get the time and money – it’s totally happening!!

I would love this in my craft room! I’d love it even more if I could make each square replaceable so I could switch out colors and patterns I love my change and options!

What would you like done in your house?

Love Always,

Jennifer

Tags: Design, DIY, easy, home, Home Decor, inspiration, Organizing, Pinterest, shopping, Storage

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I found out about this yummy desert with a sinful name one morning before I went to my nanny job. My sister’s status read “slutty brownies and pizza!” on facebook and I laughed to myself and wondered where the inside joke came from. I asked her if the pizza was slutty too. Her reply? ”The pizza is just mushroom. Look up slutty brownies!” I was instantly intrigued and immediately googled it. Lo’ and behold: there actually is a real desert called slutty brownies and it looks delectable.

Ingredients:

Pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough (I used the break n’ bake kind)

Oreos!

Brownie Mix

What a threesome! I was happy to cheat on cake with these guys .

First, you spread out your cookie dough in a 9×9 pan or glass baking dish.

I had some little helper hands! I told her they were called messy brownies lol.

Done! Now to add the Oreos.

After this is done, get your brownie mix ready.

And pour it over everything in the baking dish.

Yummmm!

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. I was using a not-so-powerful oven, so it actually ended up being almost 45 for my brownies.

The result? Three layers of sinful chocolate desert.

I wish I had an end picture of the end result, but the older girls came home and just destroyed my creation, and I was happy for it I promise that yours will be gone before you can snap a photo too!

Bon Apetite!

Leslie

Tags: brownies, cookies, desert, oreo, slutty brownies, sweets

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Author lms218

What We’ve Been Working On

22 May

Hey everyone! I wanted to give you guys a sneak peek at a few things we are working on!

If you remember we were working on using Killz to get rid of the pet smell in the basement and it left the whole place a bright shiny white! As much as we loved the clean bright space – a white floor get’s dirty really fast and Killz isn’t exactly easy to “clean” since it has a flat finish.

Since we liked the lighter look a lot better we decided to go with a light gray with a satin finish (much easier to clean!).

Also is you remember the front room being jam packed with things that should be in the basement..

It’s finally down there!! We went to Coscto and bought some awesome heavy duty shelves and organized our boxes!

Which means my front room is finally almost completely a front room! I am so excited to have this room open – We have a lack of furniture for it at the moment but I am excited to turn it into something amazing!

And of course I couldn’t leave without showing you Emma’s new bedspread! I love it!!!!!

What have you gotten done this week?

Love Always,

Jennifer

Tags: family, home, Home Decor, Life, moving, Organizing, shopping, Storage

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Homemade Lipgloss

21 May

Sorry for the lack of posts, everyone! I have just recently started my internship with social services and simultaneously got a bug that kept me delirious for a while . However, I am feeling a bit better and have some interesting things to share!

Today, I am going to show you a way to make your own homemade lipgloss using vaseline, eyeshadow, and kool-aid.

It is really quite simple. I bought a small container with a lid from the dollar store. I think it was supposed to be used as a pill box, but it works perfectly for balms or cosmetics! I just lopped a bunch of the vaseline into the container, and then sprinkled the pink eyeshadow in and mixed it up.

You can also use blush or any other powder cosmetic of any color for your gloss. I used a light pink that looked pretty natural. Then I sprinkled in a tiny bit of pink-lemonade kool-aid for flavor (the flavor was a bit tangy, so I later added some powdered sugar.)

The result is a great glossy balm that is moisturizing and flavorful! This is a wonderful way to amp up your vaseline.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial on this easy lipgloss you can make in your own kitchen in five minutes

Kisses!

Leslie

Tags: beauty, homemade, Lipgloss, Makeup, Pink

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Shopping: Planning Emma’s Room!

20 May

This weekend we went to Target to shop for ideas for Emma’s room as well as some sheets since her new twin bed didn’t have any!

Emma’s room could use a little accessorizing and a punch of frame color would be fun!

This child needs storage any way you can get it! I thought this would be adorable for all her stuffed animals and could double as a bench for a reading nook!

Brian would tease me constantly for buying a clock like this because I am AWFUL at telling time (yes I go digital on everything) but it’s SOO cute I think I might just get one!

Not only would this go with her room but it’s pretty true as well

Here is another storage idea – it wouldn’t fit all of her stuffed animals but I thought it might be cute as a little desk chair! I wish it was gray instead of yellow though..

A big girl lamp! We are phasing her out of all her Winnie The Pooh accessories (except for a few AMAZING ones I’ll show you later) and this would be adorable on her side table.

This is the bed spread we chose! It’s cute and it completely matches the yellow in her room but gives me great color choices to spot color with!

What do you think?

Love Always,

Jennifer

Tags: accessories, children, Design, fashion, Home Decor, inspiration, shopping, Storage

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Emma’s Sunshine Room

15 May

Moving into new house joys: not having your child in her room because you are painting it!! <3

Temporarily she has been sleeping in the guest room while we try and get this done! She picked out this little blue room but said she wanted it to be orange. Mom voted no. Then she said she wanted it yellow like the sun! Mom said yes

So we got set up and primed!

Note to self – it may be a small room but when you have to prime twice you use an ENTIRE GALLON! Which is my little way of saying – always buy extra primer

And we picked out an agreeable color. I wanted something more like Lemon Pound Cake – Brian said it should be brighter like the sun and have a hint of orange in it just for Emma. Brian won.

Test swatch and WOW! That is sun yellow. I even say that’s close to School Bus Yellow! But we go with it – it is Emma’s room after all

I do have to admit it’s pretty darn cute with white doors

My proud man! This is one heck of a kids room!

I’m so excited to show you the rest More coming soon!

Love Always,

Jennifer

Tags: children, Design, DIY, family, home, Home Decor, Life, moving, Organizing, shopping

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The Final Messy House Tour ;)

10 May

Hey everyone!! Today I am showing off the outside of the house as well as the basement!

The front of the house – which most of you have seen

The backyard – Emma loves all the space

The other side of the back yard.

The deck from the view of the grill

The other side of the deck – Have you noticed Emma was in almost every picture? She was running around following me everywhere Don’t know if you notice or not but you can also see a little view of the mountains in the middle of the houses. I’ll have to take some pictures along the drive because the mountain views here are GORGEOUS!

Now we head down to the basement. To the right there is extra storage, to the front there is fittings for a bath, to the left back corner is an egress window (so we can put a legal bedroom if we want!), and to the back left is extra large extra space where we are putting a game area (pool table, tennis table, foosball, etc.)

If you haven’t noticed yet the basement is WHITE!! It wasn’t white we moved in. It was your typical concrete floor with insulation to the floor. The previous owners had pets down here and we thought we’d just air it out. Apparently – which I had no idea – concrete absorbs odors as well as liquid so the smell wasn’t coming out.

Thanks to my amazing Dad and some help from the Home Depot guys – we found this. It’s a sealant to put over odors, mold, etc. It’s white! My dad is on his second coat of this and then we’ll be painting the basement a typical gray concrete color to seal it again. We are all hoping this works so we can finally have the basement for storage!

There is the back corner where I’ll be using it as storage. It’s a nice small area which is all we will need.