Pinning it Down

Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week.


This week I made a button snake.  The idea is to give Lucy a way to practice with buttons and buttonholes.  

I don't have much felt, but I do have lots of fabric scraps, so I sewed some squares (right sides together leaving a gap, turn, and top-stitch closed), and then used my machine's automatic buttonhole foot to put a buttonhole in each square. 

I love that buttonhole foot.  It really makes life easier.

I cut a length of ribbon, sewed one end to a square of fabric (which keeps all the other squares on the ribbon), and sewed a button on to the other end.

Here's the whole thing.  Lucy doesn't quite have the idea yet, but she enthusiastically carried it all around the house.

Go visit Pam at Everyday Snapshots to see what other people have been up to this week.

Pinning it Down

Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week.

I tried a great recipe this week.  When my husband and I were dating, we lived some distance apart.  Sometimes we would meet at a halfway point at Chicago's and have pizza.  Occasionally we would order dessert, and if we did, it was usually their skillet chocolate chip cookie.  When I saw this recipe, it reminded me of dinner dates with my husband, and better still, it only dirties one pan!

This was quick, easy, and delicious.  It only calls for ingredients that I always have in my kitchen.  I stirred up the dough while dinner was baking, and then baked the cookie in the already hot oven while we ate.  Happy birthday (29) to me!

Pinning it Down

I just recently started exploring Pinterest, and after being initially overwhelmed, I love it.  There are so many clever ideas and when I put them next to each other and start thinking about them they combine in different ways in my mind and eventually become something that I could actually do.  Today's post, not surprisingly is a combination of ideas.

I plan out menus every week before I go grocery shopping, but sometimes my list and the accompanying meal plans get lost in the shuffle of papers on my desk, or Lucy (my toddler) steals them, or I'm just too lazy to go hunting for it when it's time to start dinner.  I needed a way to have the plan where I can easily glance at it to remind myself what I had planned.  I pinned an idea (and saw a couple others) that involve using the glass in a picture frame as a surface for dry-erase or wet-erase markers, and I was planning to use one of these printable templates in the frame, but the printer and I weren't getting along and I didn't have time to fight with it, so I made my own.  (Of course, now that I look at the links I see that the original idea used it as a menu board as well).

I've been finding it helpful.  My mother-in-law says it's the cutest thing she's ever seen, but then, she says that rather frequently; she tends to gush a bit.

Go visit Amongst Lovely Things to see what clever ideas other people are trying out.