Days of Pinterest Past

Melissa and I had our latest Pinterest Day and she asked me why I hadn't blogged our projects for awhile.  Well....I don't know!  I haven't taken pictures of all of them.  Sadly...I can't even remember all of them.  I guess that's why I need to blog them.  Since last posting, we've done a lot.  We generally have some failures and some successes.  Here are a few:

• We met to work on our Christmas projects.  I tried to do a crocheted scarf and paper pinwheels.  Fail.  I can't remember what Melissa worked on.  Emily joined us and did some embroidery.
• We made some fudge and some orange creamsicle truffles.  YUMMMMMMMMM.  Success!  The hard part was not eating it before we gave them to friends.

Melissa does tax work and is unavailable to me until April 15th.  So I had to do Pinterest alone.  I had some leftover candy melts from Christmas.  First, I melted three different flavors of candy melts from Michaels and grabbed a sleeve of Ritz crackers.

Then, I dropped "blobs" of the melts on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper and put a cracker on each blob.

Once those dried, I peeled them off and this is what they looked like...

Next, I laid the crackers out and put a small scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of  half of them.

Then, I put the lid on, and they were ready to eat!  I wrapped them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer, where they did not stay for very long!  Quite tasty.  I highly recommend this project.

By the end of April, with Melissa BEGGING for a Pinterest Day--free at last!--we did beading...

Don't you just love beads?  They look so pretty in their boxes....

Here's what we made:

In May, I made a maxi skirt and Mel worked on a pillow.  No photos, please.  My large booty wouldn't have it.

In June, we did watercolors.  For the first time ever.  We had FUN. I'd had a box of watercolor paper greeting cards for a long time.  Years.  It was time to bring them out.

We used fairly cheap watercolors and brushes...

But, watch out!  If you use the cheap brushes, you must be sure to have a pair of tweezers with you to remove the stray hairs that end up in your masterpiece.

Here are some of our creations.

July's Pinterest Day will be aprons made out of dishcloths.  I'll be sure to take pictures!