I thought I was past that addicted stage.

You know, where you go from wasting an hour or more a day on it 

to just 5 or 10 or 15 minutes.

 

But I'm kind of loving it these days.

Especially 'cause I can do it on the iPad while I watch things like

the Presidential debates with my hubby  

(makes it not so boring)

or one of our many shows like Chopped, Shark Tank or the Bachelor. 

 

Feels like I'm killing two birds with one stone, ya know?

(Hmmm... What if the two birds are wasting time and wasting time?  Does that really count?)

 

Anyways,

What about you?

Do you go in spurts with it?

 Do you use, make or do any of the things you see on there?

I don't know about you but I have really good intentions of having my whole house organized just as fabulously as it looks on my "Ultra Organized" board.  And, I'm pretty sure one of these days I'm going to make all of the recipes I have on my "Sweet Treats", "Yum", "Good Morning" and "Drink Me" boards.  And at the same time, I'll be as strong and tough as I am on my "Be Fit" board and my home will be as beautiful as "My Dream Home" board.

 

 ~ YEAH RIGHT ~

 

I guess it's easy to get overwhelmed with all of the loveliness on there.

You have to be able to brush off all of the perfection that you see.

 

But it's kinda fun trying.

A little inspiration, motivation and eye candy never hurt.

 

Unless...

You eat half a pan of these:

Which I'm pretty sure I did over the course of a couple days.

(These revel bars are super easy.  The recipe makes a ton.  They freeze well.  And they're really yummy.)

 

[Confessions of Cookbook Queen Blog]

You may also feel a little regret when you tell yourself you're just going to have one bite of one of these Mummy Twinkie Pops (I mean, after all, you have to try the fruits of your labor and besides you don't even really like Twinkies) but you end up eating the whole thing anyways cause it was actually quite tasty. 

(I took them to our family Halloween party last Monday.  They were so cute.  I just couldn't resist.  It cost about a dollar a pop to make them and I got all the supplies at Wal-Mart.)

Another thing I made 

(that I spied on Pinterest and didn't feel bad about) 

were these burp cloths:

 [Designer Baby Burp Cloths - link]

They were fun to make and it's nice to (for once) feel "on the ball" ~ 

It's nice to have a stash of homemade baby gifts that I can go to on a moments notice (as if 9 months notice wasn't enough).

I'm just saying that Pinterest is fun and there are lot of good ideas on there.  And you can have fun trying some of them.

But you just have to be careful.

That you don't feel like you have to do all of them.

Just do one or two or three.  

Once in a while.

Now, it is two-fifteen in the afternoon.  

So I need to go get my bra on and my makeup done and my hair flat-ironed because I just wasted a lot of time talking about a really good time waster.

So.  Good-bye :)

First Day of School

What am I going to do with myself?

These little kiddos headed off to school today and I've got more time on my hands than I know what to do with.  Actually, I know I will stay quite busy but I am going to miss them!  It's going to be very quiet around here from the hours of 9:00 am - 3:30 pm Monday thru Friday.

I tried and tried but this was the best picture I could get of Thing 1.

Can you tell that he's not thrilled about having his picture taken?  I was trying not to become the "embarrassing mom" so I didin't push it :)  Now that I think of it though, I didn't even get a hug before he left.  We'll have to make up for that later!

 

And this little one is really excited to be going into the 1st grade!  She's my sensitive girl so I hope she does o.k. making new friends.  Oh, they're both growing up so fast.  I'm kind of bummed...

So I tried to be crafty last night and make a little gift for their teachers for the first day of school.  I found the original idea while I was playing around on Pinterest the other day.  I was inspired and "pinned" the picture and link away on my pin boards just in case.

The girls from Bee In Our Bonnet (a really cute craft blog) originally shared the idea on their blog last August.  Their survival kits were so cute!!   I just had to copy!  (Theirs are much cuter as I started shopping for the supplies for mine at about 9 o'clock last night and was making labels until 3 o'clock this morning.  There's nothing like last minute...)

This little survival kit is full of goodies a teacher might need on the first day of school. Just a little somethin' to let her know we're thankful for her!

Don't you just love Pinterest though? It's so fun and sooo addicting!

I love that all of my favorites are in one place, organized into categories

(like "my dream home", "quilt love", "sweet treats", etc.)

with little pictures and the links to each one. 

If you want to check out my pinboards, click here.

So, are you addicted yet? 

I've caught the bug.

Besides swimming lessons for the kiddos, a walk/run with my 8 year old, sewing a binding on a newly finished quilt [pictures coming soon]

and cleaning my kitchen for way too long, I pretty much wasted the day away "pinning".  I'm a bit technologically challenged, so I'm always a little slow jumping on the bandwagon of things like Pinterest, Twitter, Flicker, etc.  [I was pretty proud of myself though for figuring out how to get the "Pin It" button on my favorites toolbar yesterday.  It's been hard to stop pinning since then].  For those of you out there that have not yet caught the bug, let me tell ya that you're missing a whole lotta eye candy.

Here are just a few photos I've "pinned" today.

First, I found me a new project I want to do.

[Please don't hate.  I know this pattern is everywhere these days,

but I like it on everything and in every color!]

yeah.  that's a rug.

 [tutorial found here].

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I've been inspired to spruce up my craft room.  Well, really I've been wanting to for a long time.  Isn't this cubby system fun?

There's been some serious color inspiration too. 

Is anyone else feeling orange and turquoise lately? 

I may or may not have a new pattern in the works using just these colors...

And, I suddenly need to make this quilt.

I've been ignoring that fact for far too long.

[All photos credit = Pinterest]

To follow me on Pinterest, just click on the link on my sidebar.  I'm having a lot of fun.  I think you will too :)