Tucker's Minecraft Party

I'm sure that most people know what Minecraft is but y'all, this game is taking over our lives. Legos still have the number one spot but Steve and Creepers and The Nether and diamond swords are very much in the number two spot.

Tucker's birthday fell on a Saturday this year and thus he was adamant that he have a party ON his birthday. Luckily for me I waited till the weekend before his birthday to really sit down and plan a party. It was no surprise that Tucker was GOING to have a Minecraft party.

Insert Pinterest.

{aside, one of my best friends does not have a Pinterest account. She's crazy.}

So I googled Minecraft images and created an invite.

Minecraft font here.

Then I started creating my lists...

Saturday came and my house was transformed.

It began with a creeper shirt for myself. $5 green t-shirt and some fabric paint.

For all the place cards, I googled images and then created them in Photoshop.

Water = blue jello 

Obsidian = Oreos

Raw Fish = Swedish Fish

Red Stone = Cherry Sours

Trapdoors = Square pretzels

TNT = Red & Black Twizzlers

(cut in half, white piece of paper taped to hold)

Gold = Hershey's Nuggets

Swords made from printing out images, gluing on foam board and cutting out.

Mushrooms = Giant Marshmallows dipped in red candy melts with spinkles

Fish = Goldfish

Cake table

I made this horrendous looking cake. But it tasted good!

Creeper gift bags.

(Green bags, printed a creeper face as a template and cut faces out of black construction paper)

Melon = Grapes

Blocks = Rice Krispy Treats

I made three batches of rice krispies. I added food coloring to make them black and brown.

Pin-the-TNT-on-the-Creeper

Entire food table

Front door

Happy birthday boy!

Minecraft Cardboard heads here.

Minecraft poster here.

Pinterest Monday

You know how some days are just, well, frankly, they are made for perusing Pinterest.
Today was one of those days.
Of course after swim team practice, laundry, cooking dinner for a friend and doing my nails. Gotta get that mani in when you can!

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And you can follow me on Pinterest if you fell so inclined! I'm clarissadoss.
Happy-almost-end-of-Monday!

In which I regale you with pins from Pinterest...again

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

I AM ADDICTED TO PINTEREST.

Y'all I'm still blown away that this thing wasn't around 5 years ago.

And I really love the vintage posters with current sayings on them; they make me laugh almost every time.

Here are some that I recently pinned:

This one might be my favorite. It's sooooo me.

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What are some things that you're pinning?

Oh, and I'm clarissadoss if 'ya fee like following me. :)

Today

Today I didn't go to Bible class because stupid me moved boxes this weekend and now my neck feels like it's four sizes too big.
Today I didn't do the dishes.
Today I let Stuart start the laundry.
Today I let the boys eat Easter candy for breakfast (don't judge).
Today I let the boys start playing video games as soon as they came home from school.
Today I am hurting for friends who lost their father last night.
Today I want to have a back porch like this:

 Today I want to have a front porch like this too:

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Today I am going to be ok with just being ok.

Pinterest Finds

I have this love-hate relationship with pinterest.

Don't we all?

I think it's one of the most amazing websites and I can't believe it took this long for someone to virtualize binders of torn out magazine pages. 

And I love, love, love all the inspiration of ideas that I find.

But.

But, I get so overwhelmed. 

And then I feel like such a failure because I don't have an adorable DIY house and the boys don't have these over-the-top parties and I have yet to make a recipe that I have pinned.

With that said, I still keep going back because, come on!

It's pinterest.

And how can you stay away?

I really don't decorate my house for holidays other than Christmas. 

Although I really want to. 

My SIL does this fantastic Easter party every year and her house and yard are amazing.

But that's neither here nor there.

Here are a few Easter pins that I have.

HE is the reason!

I really want to create a chalkboard wall.

Centerpiece.

Cute wreath.

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I'm clarissadoss if you want to check out my other pins!

What I WANT to Wear Wednesday

I love to read all the "What I Wore Wednesday" posts from The Pleated Poppy but have never had the courage to do one of my own because A) I have no style, B) I only wear "clothes" on Sundays and C) I really don't want to take a picture of myself. So there.

So, I decided to put some of my pinterest boards to use! (Seriously y'all-pinterest?! Amazeballs.) And thus I am making a What I WANT to Wear post. Ingenious.

Everyday. Easy. Casual.

A little more girly.

Date Night.

With these shoes. I really want these babies.

{All sources can be found on my pinterest board.}