I'm enjoying this lovely Pinterest Challenge - I actually search for ideas to make sure that I get something done. It is nice to have recipes to fall back on, I will admit, but I'm also accomplishing a few other things.
Throughout my "blogging career", I've seen lots of ideas for quiet books but have yet to make one. In looking through ideas on
Pinterest, I've come across some great ideas but, better then that, I've come across some fantastic tutorials.
How to Make a Quiet Book is my go to site because she explains every step. I've decided to take the step and start this process of making two quiet books at one time. Instead of focusing on the whole book, I'm focusing on one step at a time. I will show you what I complete along the way and I can't wait until these are done so the boys can play with them. My goal is to get one page done every 2 weeks (well, actually two pages but they will be the same . . . ). So, this is my first step - I have to get some supplies. Fabric for the base of the pages and felt for my first page - the traffic light (
Seen Here as Inspiration) I chose this one because it is pretty simple.
I also have another simple project that I made this weekend that was inspired from from this
Post on pinterest.
Isn't that a neat idea? Well, Darryl has headphones and cords that are always getting twisted together in his work bag and he just recently said he needs something to carry them in so . . I bought a tin of Altoids this weekend while shopping and put this together. I modge podged some scrapbook paper onto the top of the can. It was that simple. :-) I didn't take a picture though, because mine isn't nearly as pretty as this one but, I'll see how it works and maybe make a prettier one later :-)
One last thing. I picked a new recipe to try for lunch with the kids thinking it would be something different to have. The original idea comes from
The Girl who Ate Everything and looks like this:
This is what mine looked like:
They did turn out pretty good. The kids didn't even take a nibble of one (they ate their yogurt and cookies but no sandwich!). I'm not a sandwich lover but I actually ate one and 1/2 of these so that is saying something. I plan on making these again sometime when my husband is home because he loves things like this! I did, obviously, cut this recipe down to 1/4 of the original recipe making only 6 sandwiches and it turned out fine. Would I recommend these? Sure - I noticed in the comments on the blog this recipe came from that a lot of people used different seasonings in the butter mixture you pour over the top so you could really change this up :-)
Have you made anything from Pinterest lately? I'd love to see it!
