Entry 2: Calzone Pizza

I think I see this every time I am on Pinterest. 

It's a calzone ring. Looks simple enough, and honestly, I have only ever had a calzone one other time.  The recipe, which comes from squidoo.com, is so easy and simple. Their recipe called for a homemade pizza dough, but seeing as I am lazy and like cooking to be pleasant, I bought a Pillsbury Pizza Crust.  It was already in a rectangle shape, so it was perfect! I didn't take photo's of the step by step process, since you can get the full directions of the original website, but here is how mine turned out:

I also chopped up some veggies and made a salad to go with it

Yum Yum Yum! 

Matt gave the Calzone two thumps up, and AC girl gave it an "I don't like it" and only ate her "cumbers" (cucumbers in 2 year old lingo). 

I think it is definitely something I will be making again!

You choose

I saw this pin on Pinterest yesterday. It was one of those things that just hit me right in the heart. Growing up, my parents always told me that my attitude was a choice. I usually rolled my eyes and chose to be annoyed with them. I didn't really listen. But, as an adult, I am finding out more and more that they are right. It is so easy to let little stresses, like losing your keys right before work, bring your whole day down. I am guilty of one thing setting off another thing, which sets off another thing to where the end of the day I am ready for a big blow out and let it out in annoyance with my child or husband. When all along I had the power to choose how I wanted to react to my day. So while this may not be a craft I found on pinterest, it is definitely something I want to try. I am going to choose joy. Choose joy in the stress. Choose joy in the anger filled time. Choose joy in the craziness of life. Choose JOY!

Entry 1: First Day of School

Did you see these floating around Pinterest?

                                             (www.howdoesshe.com)

Well, in honor of my first "diary" entry, and Tootie Bug's first day of Pre-School, I made my version. The first one was a total fail. I have no idea how to add a cute background to something in MS Word, so I decided to use one of the 1,000,000  25 sheets of scrapbook paper I have lying around. I made my selection, and went to work. But once it printed, well, see for yourself.

If at first you don't succeed, pick a different piece of scrapbook paper.

Ah, much better!

I wish I would have made the "of" in the frame a little more pronounced, but hey, hindsight is 20/20 and nobody is grading me on this, so...

There you have it folks, my first Pinterest project completed! I am aiming to do one a week so that I don't get overwhelmed..I mean, I am taking care of 12 two year olds at work, a 2 year old at home, and a 6 month old I am watching for a friend. Not like my free time is abundant here! But I love it! 

Here we go

Pinterest. No doubt you have heard of it. In case you haven't, it's like an online bulletin board. You sign up for an account (or get invited), and you create boards. On these boards you "pin" things that are floating around the website. These can be recipes, sewing projects, inspiriational quotes, crafts for children, home decoration ideas....I could go on and on. You can make several boards so that you can divide all your finds into categories. It's kind of like keeping all your bookmarks in one space.  I was warned that this website was addicting before I signed up....and the warnings were true. I have spent way too much time "pinning", and not enough time doing any of the ideas I have actually pinned.

So yesterday on my training run, it hit me. Start a blog chronicling your journey as you go through creating the ideas on all your pin boards. So, I started this, the Pinterest Diaries. You can follow me as I make my Pinterest boards come to life. I hope you have fun...I am pretty sure I will!