black bean mushroom tortilla casserole

oh, Martha Stewart.  You just made my vegetarian heart smile with this recipe.

Now I'm not one to go scouring Martha Stewart's website for recipes, but Pinterest was created and well, the rest is history...

how can you go wrong with cheese, mushrooms and beans?

answer: you pretty much can

Martha's recipe

broil a grapefruit.

I keep seeing this pinned on Pinterest and it just looked so tasty.

inspired by this pin.

Here's my take on it.

cut a grapefruit in half.

(next time I may prep it like I would eat a regular grapefruit so it's a little less messy to eat)

there are different ideas of what tastes good on this broiled grapefruit.

I suppose you could put whatever you like on it.

I chose a little butter, brown sugar, and pumpkin pie spice (which is nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and allspice)

mix, melt and "frost" your grapefruit.

broil for about 5 minutes.

it looks like a burn victim.

eat it anyway.

it's good.

trust me.

origami cat!!!

needless to say I was super excited when I came across this.

More difficult than a paper crane, but totally worth it!

his face hooks over the top of the page... adorable!

the perfect book to use a cat bookmark on.

snowflakes from junk mail.

inspired by this pin

I always loved making snowflakes as a child.  It was just as fun to make them as an adult.  Especially since it puts my junk mail to good use.  It also makes me feel good to have some sort of snow in my life since it's staying in the 50's and 60's around here.  blah.

pinterest made me make a quesadilla

inspired by this pin.

I am determined to not be a person who just sits around and pins things and doesn't make the things they pin.  So here we are.

next time, I may need to use pre-shredded mozzarella.

it was juicy juicy.

I love cheese... don't judge me.

I love that golden brown.

makes my heart smile.

I wish it was time to eat again.

cranberries!!

I felt like I wanted to practice a Thanksgiving recipe this weekend and this pin inspired me.

cranberry salsa.

I food processed mine a little more than my pin, but it was so delectable.

even the husband liked it.

we devoured it.  I was so happy that it was so tasty that I jumped up and gave my husband a big hug.  ha!

gifts for the kiddies.

My friend Heather has 2 awesome little twin girls who celebrated their 7th birthday with a spa party this past weekend.  Heather asked me to come down and help, so I didn't want to go empty-handed.  

I found this pin and decided to put 2 together (one for each girl).

supplies... rope, suction cups, clothes pins, twin bed sheet, flashlight, ribbon

I sewed the ribbon to each corner of the sheet.

put clips, suction cups and flashlight in the small bag the bed sheet came in and then embroidered a felt piece, resized a pillowcase and turned it into a drawstring bag and put everything into the bag.  Pretty cute!  I made one for each girl.  It was a hit!

weekend craftiness

this weekend, my friend Bethany and I decided to do a Pinterest project.  She's been wanting to make a yarn wrapped wreath and I could definitely use a new fall wreath, so...

here I am wrapping my wreath

this was our progress after a few hours so I went home and we finished our wreaths separately

Bethany's wreath with felt flowers

my wreath with fabric flowers