a crafty copier: t-shirt pom poms.

I came across this idea via eighteen25 (quickly becoming another favorite blog).  The husband had just tossed a pile of t-shirts on the floor, en route to goodwill. The only natural thing to do was to grab my scissors.

and a piece of card board.

go gators

wrap the cardboard using 1 strip of t-shirt to secure one side of the 'wrap.' I loosely tied it before cutting the other side.  Once the other side was free from the cardboard I tightened the strip of t-shirt to secure pom.   I think the tighter you wrap, the more 'perfect' your pom will be.  My goal is rarely for perfect.

voila, 2 silent cheer leading pom poms in mommy's school colors.

I took it a step further the following night and made a mini pom.  

wrap your heart out like you did above

I'm certain I should find a better way to secure this small pom, maybe a small wire.  It's still in one piece, but I haven't set her free with it yet.  with just a little more effort it will make a cute hair accessory.  I'm thinking hair clips.

invincible

this is my theme song, I hear it when I do something I think is cool.  There is no need to worry b/c I use my powers for good already. 

Invincible Ok Go

as my husband says: "their videos will bring you happiness"

you should check them out.

your blogging test cook

I took a cooking class in high school, but beyond that I have no real training outside of my mom. In her defense, I didn't listen to her ever. She's a much better cook and I could have learned a lot.

That being said, I really love to try and cook. A year ago my husband took on the responsibilities of cooking dinner each night (that is a whole other story). You might say I took a long over due break from the kitchen and succumbed to whatever he put on the plate in front of me. With a few demands on my part for real meat or none at all, I was pleasantly surprised at what a good job he did-and still does.  

Wait Kat, you said you love to try and cook, where are you going with this?

My inner cook was renewed in time for the holidays and I really do owe it all to the fact that he took on dinners for the year. I had been burnt out by years of trying to do a lot, plus dinner.

So now I share with you my new favorite blog: Our Best Bites

I love to try, but like I said on day 1-I'm really not original. I had family both expected and unexpected about to arrive and the excuse of little ones was really not valid anymore. They are little, but at this point I felt the need to prove I could take at least partial control again and this was one of my moments to do it.

Enter, the 4 min treat (add time for unwrapping a bag of Rollos, I didn't time it-but I curse them for their need to individually wrap, even when I'm snacking-I'm mean come on, what gives?)-or as titled by Our Best Bites, "Easy Pretzel Turtles"

These were in fact the most popular treat at my house this year, and honestly the easiest one I made.  I slapped some wax paper down on a cookie sheet, lined up the pretzels and set a Rollo or Hersey Kiss on each one (note: Rollo made for a prettier treat, kisses were a bit messy-also Mom Royer said she had seen these at a party (popular treat!) but not with a Rollo which she stated made it much better).

The above photo is the point where Our Best Bites says to essentially just sit and watch, and I would have to agree.  You can't trust a timer on this one-just give it a few minutes.

Remove from oven and I added an M&M on top of each and gave them a small nudge so they'd stay in place (OBB notes you can instead add a nut or 2-I don't think either of us tried a nut and M&M) . Being in the most festive holiday spirit I have felt in years, I stuck with the green and red M&Ms only.  If you drop the holidays, you can use any old color from the bag.  I will not wait until next year to make these again, so see you soon blue, brown and whatever other color there is...