I"m Going To Go Ahead and Pat Myself on the Back for This One. {Fancy Shmancy Picture Frame TUT}

Because I'm convinced I came up with this one on my own!  I haven't seen it anywhere else in Blogland so I am going to give my own brain credit for this one :)
I'm working on a relationship timeline collage to go above our headboard like seen HERE. I seriously cannot wait for it to be finished!
I was going to need frames and I didn't want to spend a bunch of money and was too lazy to take a trip to the DI. So to the basement I went to play with leftover chair railing and a chop saw.

 Awesome. Except for my first-time-cutting-wood-at-an-angle skills. :/ It had character but I wasn't satisfied. So I was trying to think how I could mask the gaps in the corners. Then all of a sudden

BAM!

It hit me! You know those vases that are on pinterest where they decorated them with glue and then just spray painted over it? You know these ones....

courtesy of Sugar and Cloth

I figured why can't you do the same to a plain jane picture frame? 

So... I used my glue gun because I was way to impatient to wait for elmers glue or puffy paint to dry. 

*DISCLAIMER* 

I probably should have made another frame with the other said glues and used those pictures for a tutorial but I was way to excited to show you guys!

I tried drawing the lines on with pencil first so I could just trace them but I wasn't loving the design so I just grabbed the glue gun and randomly went at it! 

 A glue gun works fine but it doesn't turn out as "neat" as the other glues would. It dries fast and leaves strings and doesn't come out in perfect streams. Or maybe that is just MY glue gun? I dunno...Anyway

 Since this is going on my bedroom wall I put the word love on it. Also to pay homage to where my idea sparked from ;)

 I went outside and spray painted the frame. (Yes, away from the cars honey) and I LOVED how it turned out. I have so many ideas that I can do to my plain frames. I think if you really take the time to use the better glue and put your artistic work into it, you would come up with some pretty darn beautiful frames!

This was my Hubster's boutonniere from our wedding. It had been lying around in my jewelry since that beautiful day...awwww. I know, it looks pretty sad but it means a lot. I adhered some burlap onto the back of it and pinned it on. (I got the idea for the burlap from the blog Always Chasing Life)

RUN! Go try this right now! After you have, PLEASE send me pictures! I would love to see what you all come up with. The possibilities are endless. So go turn those boring frames into something unique.

Attempting To Get Out Of The House: Wal-Mart Addition

How many of you LOOOOVE to run errands with your kids? If any of you are excitingly raising your hands screaming "I DO, I DO!!", you are liars. While off on one of my many adventures to Wal-Mart with the boys we were in stealth mode trying to get in and out as quickly as possible and hopefully without anyone noticing us. I MAY or MAY NOT have been ready that day. While dodging all the dumb people that do not understand that while walking the isles you treat it as if it were a road,
one direction to the right, the other to the left. It's common sense really.

otherwise you get this:

Which leads to this:

and then this:

Unfortunately the shopping cart matter is not the only gateway to a woman about to explode. Like for instant the mother in isle 14.

The boys and I turned down isle 14 to get some baking goods and it was one big ol' traffic jam mess. Clearly the fine people of Wal-Mart did not get my memo.

There was a young woman with her husband and  another young woman all shopping together. With about 7 kids between the two of them. While coding what ALL kids do in stores one child accidentally knocked over a muffin display. While trying to help clean the poor worker that had just stacked them a very wise woman walked by and said, and I quote:

"Why don't you have some more kids?"

That. Just. Happened. .............Speechless.  

Obviously the mom was so utterly shocked that her words escaped her and didn't return until the lady was out of hearing distance. My kids and I weren't unfortunately. But I felt for her so I just walked by and said "Don't worry about it, some women must forget what it was like, or they've never had kids." She mustered a frustrated "I guess" and I went on my marry way yelling at my own kids to sit down before their heads and the floor got a chance to meet. 

Happy Shopping Everyone :)

Coconuts In Your Mouth Cake

I was trying to figure out what to call this cake so I called my bestie Jill and we came up with this and laughed...inappropriate? Probably..but funny nonetheless. We figured since we have a cake called "Better Than Sex", that the world would be fine with a "Coconuts in Your Mouth" cake. Right? Get your minds out of the gutter. It's called that because its CRAZY good (crazy=nuts) and made with lots of coconut so it really is Coconuts in your mouth! Inappropriate?
I have been craving coconut flavored stuff all summer so I thought I would make a dessert centered around the whole fruit. Coconut is a fruit right?  ha...who cares. Anyway, I threw a bunch of stuff together and it turned out AMAZING! So being the kind person that I am, I decided to share this crazy party in your mouth recipe with you all lovely people :)

Coconuts In Your Mouth Cake

1 box of your favorite yellow cake mix + whatever ingredients the cake mix calls for ( I used butter recipe yellow )

1 3oz. box of Coconut Cream Jello Cook and Serve 

1 bottle of Coco Real Cream of Coconut *found in your mixed drinks isle*

1 refridgerated can of Thai Kitchen coconut milk *it MUST be Thai Kitchen* GO HERE to see how to prepare 

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. cinnamon 

2 c. cool whip (not pictured)

1 cup sweetened coconut flakes *toasted*

Prepare your cake batter according to the directions on the box and then add the coconut cream Jello to the batter. Mix well. Bake according to the box. I baked mine @350 for about 32 minutes.

Nice and golden brown :)

Then using the WRONG side of a wooden spoon poke wholes all over your cake. Don't try to be all neat and tidy like I did in the picture. I should have poked more holes! Let cool about 10-15 minutes.

Pour the ENTIRE bottle of Cream of Coconut all over the cake and then place the cake in the fridge. 

Now would be a good time to toast your coconut flakes because your oven is hot and ready to go.

Like a cookie sheet with foil and spread out the coconut flakes on it.

Bake @350 for about 7 minutes

You are going to want to watch it closely and stir about every 2 minutes. I really just kind of watched it the whole time so I could stir before it had a chance to burn because it can burn quickly.

Dude. DUUUUUUUUUUDE! Look how pretty it is! I wanted to start snacking right then!

Now you are going to want to start making your coconut whip cream. 

GO HERE to prepare it.

Once you have your coconut whip cream prepared fold in your 2 cups of whipped cream.

Take the cake out of the fridge and spread the coconut whip cream on top.

*your could greatly reduce the calories if you make more than one can of the coconut whipped cream and completely cut out the cool whip*

Finish by sprinkling on your toasted coconut flakes and you have yourself one coconutty cake!

Isn't she pretty? 

Let me know if you guys make it! I would love to hear your reviews! 

Peace out homes-

Coconuts In Your Mouth Cake

1 box of your favorite yellow cake mix + whatever ingredients the cake mix calls for ( I used butter recipe yellow )

1 3oz. box of Coconut Cream Jello Cook and Serve 

1 bottle of Coco Real Cream of Coconut *found in your mixed drinks isle*

1 refridgerated can of Thai Kitchen coconut milk *it MUST be Thai Kitchen* GO HERE to see how to prepare 

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. cinnamon 

2 c. cool whip (not pictured)

1 cup sweetened coconut flakes *toasted*

Prepare your cake batter according to the directions on the box and then add the coconut cream Jello to the batter. Mix well. Bake according to the box. I baked mine @350 for about 32 minutes.

Then using the WRONG side of a wooden spoon poke wholes all over your cake. Don't try to be all neat and tidy like I did in the picture. I should have poked more holes! Let cool about 10-15 minutes.

Pour the ENTIRE bottle of Cream of Coconut all over the cake and then place the cake in the fridge. 

Now would be a good time to toast your coconut flakes because your oven is hot and ready to go.

Like a cookie sheet with foil and spread out the coconut flakes on it.

Bake @350 for about 7 minutes

You are going to want to watch it closely and stir about every 2 minutes. I really just kind of watched it the whole time so I could stir before it had a chance to burn because it can burn quickly.

Now you are going to want to start making your coconut whip cream. 

GO HERE to prepare it.

Once you have your coconut whip cream prepared fold in your 2 cups of whipped cream.

Take the cake out of the fridge and spread the coconut whip cream on top.

Finish by sprinkling on your toasted coconut flakes and you have yourself one coconutty cake!