Bite size Pizza heaven

Yesterday I made these amazing pizza puffs for a snack. They were so easy and quick. I made them in my heels with company over holding a baby half of the time, and if I can do it.. SO CAN YOU!! Isn't it baseball or basketball or some kind of sport season. ( as you can guess, I could care less) Wow the people at your next sport watching get together with these, I promise you, you will have to make 2 batches. Enough talk here is your next recipe to conquer...

Welcome to pizza heaven..

Pizza Heaven

Easter Blooms

Easter is this month and its time to decorate. I have some Easter decor that I put out, but I hate spending money on decorations. I'm not saying I don't. I can't help it. It's in my blood. I come from a long line of outrageous holiday decorators. So I'm always trying to make stuff to make the house more festive, and today I'm going to share one of my faves. These tissue flowers can be made big to hang or small to put on a table. The ones I'm making here are perfect for your table setting. So what you'll need..

4 sheets of tissue paper, some wire , scissors, and wire cutters

I picked my tissue paper at the .99 store

Cut the tissue in a 6x6in square and double it so you have 8 squares

Then fold your square like a fan

Tie a piece of wire around the tissue leaving some extra wire out

With scissors cut the tips to make them rounded

Then very gently fan the tissue back out and pull apart layers

You can tie them to your napkin 

make them in different colors, bigger, smaller. Put them on your table or hang them above, the possibilities are endless!! Have fun!

Spring Break

Its that time of year! Time to break out your toes and legs and arms. ha ha I love Spring!! Nothing says feminine like lace, flowers, dresses. So in honor of the start of the season here are some great finds for you that will be gentle on the wallet. You can make 5 outfits from these pieces. 5!

Lets start with the shoes. These are from Payless by Zoe & Zac $24.99 

Pair with jeans or a dress I think they are adorable.

Hang up those skinny jeans this season. Wide leg is IN IN IN! Which is great, they look good on all body types and never go out of style. These are by Lauren Conrad $34.99 at Kohls

This Floral top is also by Lauren Conrad at Kohls $24.99. Pair with a nice boyfriend sweater if you so desire.

These cool and comfy shorts are from Old Navy. They are denim blue but are a bit more sophisticated then denim. $24.50

This shirt is also from Old Navy. Its a lightweight peasant top that is flowy and girly and light. With the shorts or jeans it would look fabulous! $29.94

And you need a new purse.. OF COURSE!! This pop of color yellow cross body bag is from Target goes with EVERYTHING and is $11. Why don't you have this bag yet. GO!!.... GO!!..... RUUUUN!!.....

5 outfits including shoes and a bag for about $150. Enough talk.. go be one with spring.

Fwower Box

  Roman has always been very giving, but nothing makes my heart smile like when he picks me a flower. Its usually from the yard, but he does it anywhere he sees flowers. "I picked you a fwower mommy". Just the other day I pretended to be sad when he said something mean and he quietly crept away, got his shoes and socks on and I caught him trying to unlock the front door so he could pick me some "fwowers to make you fweel better". Scary and adorable right? haha After a stern conversation about how we don't go outside without mommy, I opened the door and let him run into the drizzling afternoon and he picked me a flower. He ran back to the porch with huge smile on his face. "This is for you mommy". It occurred to me that day that he has been doing this for a year now and I haven't saved any of the flowers. So here is my morning project today.

I got this clear acrylic box from Michaels for about $3

I was lucky enough to snap a picture of him doing this back in October

Cut the picture to fit the lid

I stuck in the picture with sticky tabs for scrap booking and put in the flowers I've been saving for the past 2 weeks.

Does your kid collect anything? This is a great way to keep your little collectables and display them!

My name is Raphee, I like to dance!

I've started planning for Raphael's first birthday which will be a Yo Gabba Gabba party!!! Like EVERY child under 5 he is totally mesmerized by this show. Haven't seen it?! Well even if you don't have kids you've had to at least heard of it. With musical acts like MGMT, Weezer, Hot Hot Heat, The Tings Tings and The Roots its got THE BEST music add guests like Elijah Wood, Jack Black, Andy Sandburg and Sarah Silverman .. are you sure this is for kids?? I love singing the songs and hearing Biz Markie's "beat of the day". The lessons it teaches are unlike any other kids show. Themes like, "Don't bite your friends", "Cover your mouth when you sneeze" and "Its not fun to get lost" are just a few. Vans launched a shoe line with the characters, they have a full line of toys, clothes... ANYWAY here is one of everyone's favorite songs

Creepy?? at first.. yes but TRUST ME! This show is AWWEESOMMMEE

So here is some inspiration for my party, Its gonna be colorful, whimsical and just plain FUN!!!

See you next time, Bye Bye!

Working Girl Space pt.2

The chair arrived!! and... it's amazing. I got to pick the fabric in yellow of course! So my space is complete for now. Somewhere I can type, do bills, craft, make TPS reports and all that stuff.

Closer look at the chair

Finally a place to keep my yarn

this is a wall decal dry erase calendar.. c'mon people what will they think of next?!

Cork board tiles I covered with scrap booking paper

Brought to you live from my desk !

Roman & Raphael's great room makeover of 2011

When I was pregnant with Raphael I knew that once he turned 1, Roman would be turning 4 and it would be a perfect time to make the room a shared room (yes Raphael has slept in our room since birth). I can't believe its already that time. Its seems like just yesterday I was puking up water and eating enough pineapple to sustain a small smoothie operation. Well, Its April and Roman will be 4 this month and Raph will be 1 the first week of May. Roman has been obsessed with Spiderman for a year so the theme was a given. I knew I wanted a vintage feel to it, an old comic bookish feel, and I wanted it to be as chic as possible, not just spiderman thrown up all over and low and behold leave it to Pottery Barn....

But since I don't have an extra $3,000 lying around I had to search for acceptable alternatives. I DID get the sheets, That adorable red shelf and the huge Spiderman decal from PBK.com but that was it. So here are the cheaper alternatives. What do you think?

 Bunk bed from Walmart.com you can also separate them into two twin beds.

The bedding is also from Walmart.com I read half of the billion reviews and everyone said, "looks like its from Pottery Barn!" 

Sooo heres the stuff I did get from Pottery Barn.

oh yea, got the throw pillow

I found this lamp but it was $80. Thank goodness they offered just the shade for $20

This rug is SUPER nice its 3x6 and the white stars glow in the dark.. THEY GLOW IN THE DARK!

I found it on Overstock.com for.... wait for it.... $70 WHAT?!?! and the stars glow in the dark you say?... that is awesome!!!

I'm a huge fan of allposters.com.  You can order artwork for real cheap and frame it yourself. I got this and had them make it a wrapped canvas. I can't even tell you how awesome it looks, definitely other than the rug my favorite piece.

gotta have a bean bag

And then theres the Ikea stuff, the TV stand ..

and I got two of these for inside the closet

and lastly the door sign I made from a comic book and scrap booking paper

I started buying pieces one be one in November so it wasn't too bad and I've spent around $1000. We did have to get mattresses too. So the makeover is scheduled for next weekend, and I'm so excited I'm gonna burst. Be on the look out for those pictures!