P is for Pinterest

When I first considered participating in the Blogging from A-Z Challenge

I thought that I would make my theme my interest in

Pinterest!

Peeptini!
I made mine with Lemonade and no alcohol since it was
Easter and Kids were there!

Originally I thought that perhaps I could find a craft or recipe or organizational tip,

 DO IT, 

then post about it on my blog!

Ya right! I have time for all that!

I always think I can manage more!  

Dreamer!

What is Pinterest you ask?

 Pinterest is a virtual personal bulletin board where you pin ideas that speak to you.

Similar to back in the day when you would clip a picture from a magazine and place it in a file folder

titled "Ideas for my Garden" or "Recipes".

Milk shot with a donut chaser
for St. Pat's breakfast 

Where do these ideas come from?

 Pinterest is a collection of pictures with links back to BLOGS!

How about a grilled buffalo chicken sandwich?

What kinds of things do you find on Pinterest?

My favorite things are Recipes, decorating ideas, stuff I can make or do with my grand kids,

craft and quilting pictures and projects.

Watermelon shots

 But you can find exercises, inspirational quotes, pictures,

Tips to take and/or pose better pictures, and the list goes on and on.

You can find full patterns for a ton of projects
like this sweet little apron

I've written about Pinterest before........I had a Pinterest party 

shows some really cool party foods

that I made for Bunko.  Delicious and successful!

How about a little mashed Potato Martini?

I've recently joined the ranks of folks who have smart phones and one of my very favorite things about Pinterest is that I can access if from my phone.  I've actually been at the grocery store, pulled out my phone, pressed the Pinterest button and pulled up a recipe I had pinned, so I could buy the necessary ingredients.  

Go Here to read the very first post and see more projects from Pinterest.

Try out Pinterest..........You'll love it!

tammy

I had a Pinterest Party!

Okay, I didn't really have a ~Pinterest~ party.

It was really just my turn to have Bunko at my house,

but I've been pinning tons of interesting recipes and hosting

bunko gave me a great excuse to make up some of these very

tasty treats!

I've been seeing all sorts of wonderfully coordinated party themes online and most of them have made little labels for all of the food.

So the day before the event I made up little labels and taped them to a skewer.

OMG!  Besides being really cute at the party they were super helpful

while I was trying to organize all of the ingrediants the day of!

We started off with Flavored Water

found  Here on Nancy Creative's blog.

Truthfully, we all FINISHED with the

flavored water at the end of the night.........

We all STARTED with a little glass of Margarita.

I usually put together my own recipe for a margarita

pitcher.  I start with one can of Limeade, then fill that can with

water and fill the can again with tequila and mix together in the pitcher. 

Since that didn't fill my pitcher I filled the can again with one of those

margarita mixes, then topped off the pitcher with tequila.

Sheesh, they were good and the pitcher was bone dry at the

end of the evening.......and I kept refilling it til I ran out of ingredients! 

This picture shows the Cucumber Chicken bites found on

Sugar Free Mom's blog

The cucumber sandwiches were pretty yummy, but

I had some leftover chicken and had used up all the cucumber so

I decided to toast up

some sourdough bread rounds and make some little sandwiches with them.

(Well, actually JENNY toasted up the sourdough rounds,

but I had cut them out the day before!) 

Can you say TASTY?

These little Caprese bites came from Terri's Table

Fresh basil, grape tomatoes and little mozzerella pearls.

YUM.

When I do a party I like to have a theme.

The closest "holiday" is St. Patrick's day so that became my theme.

I had these little plastic shot glasses tucked away in my holiday box, so I used them to create "Pot of Gold Sticks" from green, red, yellow and orange peppers.

Inspiration for this dish came from  here .

Carmel apple bites came from here.

I loved the Pizza on a stick recipe that I found on

Artisan Bread in Five.

This little appetizer were very tasty, however they turned

out a little too big to fit on a stick.  Guess I'll need to try this recipe again and maybe I'll get them to look just as good as they taste!

These rainbow fruit kabobs started the whole theme for St. Patrick's day.

What a clever idea found on Pinterest. 

No link was found with the picture so I can't credit the pinner.

I LOVE this little appetizer found on

My Wedding reception blog.

There are tons of cute little sliders and shooters and snackies, OH MY!

I wanted to make them all!

These cute glasses that I found at Ross are filled with Butternut squash soup and topped with a toasted cheese triangle.

What St. Patty's day party is complete without some

Irish Spuds?

These tasty morsels were found at Sea Salt with Food.

We changed the spices up quite abit using only butter, olive oil

and some garlic powder in the cooking portion. 

Jenny creatively added a mozzerella pearl on top of each mini potato

and when they melted down...... ummmm, lip smacking good!

I forgot to take a picture of the dessert, but I'm pretty sure I'll be making it again soon, so I'll post about that at a later date.

I made a deconstructed Mini Key Lime pie in a cute little mason jar.

At the beginning of the evening I felt a little bad that I had gone so overboard with the amount of food I had prepared. 

Our bunko group used to have dinner before we played, then

decided we should cut back and just have snacks.

Appetizers are snacks, right?

I stopped feeling bad when I realized that at the end of the evening

the plates were mostly empty!

A fun night was had by all and I so love and appreciate my

bunko buddies.

I feel so honored to be friends

with such a unique and wonderful group of ladies.

til next time,

tammy

Pretty Irish Lass

It's been awhile

Greetings and Happy New Year!

It's been awhile since I've written anything here.

I'm not sure why.

Okay, I do know why.

It's because the Christmas season was crazy busy around here!

Lots of cherished memories made with family and friends!

So.

My new best friend is Pinterest 

Melinda had been telling me about Pinterest for ages

and when I finally went to the page I realized that it was one of those things that you needed to spend a little time at to figure it out.

OH, and you had to request an invite to do it.

Seemed like alot of time was needed so I put it aside.

Then Judy sent a link,

and then Melinda mentioned it again

so I figured that perhaps I should spend the time to figure it out.

I did and I LOVE IT!

So here is how Pinterest works.......

Think of it like this.....It is a place to collect all of the neat ideas you find.

Back in the day you would have a file folder system to do this.

You would make a folder for, lets say, recipes, and then when you saw a recipe in a magazine or newspaper you would cut it out and place it in your Recipe file folder.  You might have a folder for decorating ideas, one for party ideas, one for places you want to visit and so on.

Pinterest is a place where you can "pin" an idea to a board.

You can create as many board ideas as you have interests.

So how do you get started?

First you request an invite and the website sends you an invitation to your email address. Then you go back to the site and start looking.

It does take some time to figure things out, but just start looking around and you'll soon get the hang of it.

Where does the content of Pinterest come from you ask?

It can come from anywhere on the web, but alot of it comes from blogs just like this one.  So when you come to something that you like on Pinterest simply click on the picture and it will eventually take you to the source.

Here is one of the ideas that I found on Pinterest:

Handprint Ornaments

(the above link takes you to the blog where the handprint ornaments originated.)

This picture shows the handprint ornaments that we made

with Mia this year.  Only one of them got painted when this picture

was taken, but I'm still working on them. 

Here is another great pinterest idea......Simple Delights

posted this wonderful breakfast recipe and someone

pinned it on pinterest.

I found it, pinned it into my recipe board and yesterday

morning when I was trying to figure out what to have for breakfast I went to my board, found this recipe and viola......I had a great breakfast!

Place one slice of ham in a pyrex bowl.

Crack an egg and pour into ham lined bowl.

Bake for 12 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

I topped this with a little cheese and believe me....

It was delicious.

AND

only 100 calories.

The ham got a little browned and crunchy on the top

making this extra flavorful.

The recipe called for scallions on top and that would have

been heavenly, but I didn't have scallions, so I'll have to try that next time.

All this talk about food has made me hungry and I have not had breakfast yet.

Still don't have any scallions, but I do have ham and eggs!

Til next time....

Have a blessed day.

tammy