Homemade Frappuccino & Pigs In A Blanket

Looking for a quick snack that’s both delicious and quick to make? Here’s the perfect recipe for you! These pigs in a blanket are AMAZING and they go well with my homemade caramel frapp that I chose to accompany this delicious snack.

Pigs In A Blanket Recipe
Ingredients:

• 1 Package of Little Smokies (You can also use cut up hotdogs to improvise!)
• 1 Can of Crescent Rolls
• Parmesan Cheese (Optional)
• 1 tbsp. Butter
• 1 tbsp. Flour
• Large Baking Pan

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Boil Little Smokies & drain to cool.
3. Grease Baking Pan with butter and Flour, Any flour left over put back in container or empty in the sink.
4. Cut the crescent roll dough into little strips, as many as the number of little smokies you have.
5. Wrap the smokies with the strips of dough and line them on your baking pan. You can sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top for extra flavor if you like.
6. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve Warm

Caramel Frappe Recipe
Ingredients:

• 6 oz Cold Coffee
• 1 cup Milk
• 2-3 tbsp Caramel
• 2-3 tbsp Sugar
• 1 cup Ice
• Whip Cream to Top (Optional)

Directions:

1. Blend all Ingredients except the whip cream in a blender until its to your desired consistency.
2. Pour in a glass and your ready to go! Add whip cream and drizzled caramel on top if desired. (:

Simple huh?! Easy to make and very, VERY tasty. Enjoy! ❤

Valentine’s Day Nails <3

These are my Valentine’s Day Nail Designs Set #1. I numbered it because I plan on doing at least 3 other Valentine’s Day inspired designs I found on the internet that I just HAVE to try! I really like this design because I think stripes look so cute on nails (it makes them look like present boxes) and it uses the perfect colors for this Holiday: white, light pink, dark pink, and red. It even has a little sparkle on the lips. ;*

You can either paint all your nails the same base color (preferably a light color), or you can do what I did and alternate the colors on each of your toes. I did light pink, dark pink, and white on my right foot and then dark pink, white and light pink on my left foot. Then, I used several different sized brushes to draw thin and thick lines in different colors on all of my toes. I thought about just putting stripes on my big toes, leaving my little toes the alternated colors and just adding a rhinestone to the bottom of each toe. Another great thing about this nail design is that you can switch up the patterns, which toes get decorated, and even change out the colors so you can match any holiday!

For this design, I used my ruby Kisses French White, Wet n’ Wild Shin’s Tickled Pink, Pure Ice Flirt Alert, Nicolé by OPI’s Stolen Kisses and Sally Hansen’s Diamond Strength Wedding Crasher. Oh, I can’t forget the top coat: my most frequently used Sally Hansen’s Clear Base & Top coat. I also used several different sized brushes of different brands (all ordered online @ Amazon from Hong Kong) and a small sized dotting tool to draw my kisses. It doesn’t take any special nail decorations, just polish, one brush will do, and a dotting tool. If you don’t have these items, then improvise! You can buy nail art polish at the Dollar Tree for one dollar and use that brush (although you have to clean it every time you use a different color) and instead of paying $8 at Sally’s Beauty Supply on a dotting tool, you can use a toothpick; it works just the same. I buy all my nail art tools online simply because it’s cheaper and you get more for your money. But you can use simple everyday items around the house to save yourself the money. This design took me about an hour to do, not including drying time. So if you have the time and if you’re up to it, try it out! You’ll have the cutest toes ever and you don’t even have to go to the salon. (:

As for my nails, I decided to use a different style, the one I thought about for my toes as I mentioned previously. I wanted something that would match my toes because I usually get so excited about nail art that I can’t make a decision on which one to do, so I do one for my nails and a different one for my toes. But this timeee, I’m going to match them. (:

First, I painted my nails the alternated colors: light pink, white, dark pink, white, light pink. I apply two coats of each of these colors; after they dry, I used my Milani Silver Dazzle, a sparkly charcoal color, to draw X’s and O’s on my ring fingers in a diagonal pattern. I then used  OPI’s Stolen Kisses to draw 3 kisses on my index fingers. While my kisses dry, I use Pure Ice Beeware, a silver glitter polish to paint glitter tips and then I brought them down to about halfway of my nail as light towards the middle as possible to give it a gradient effect. By this time, my kisses have dried, so now I apply Sally Hansen’s Diamond Strength Wedding Crasher glitter polish on the lips to make them stand out. I apply three rhinestones on each of my hands in the middle at the very bottom of my thumbs, pinky’s and middle fingers. Last I apply a top coat and let them dry and BAM: my matching Valentine’s Day nails are done. This design was actually really easy and I didn’t even have to look online for an idea, it just kind of came to me after I got done painting my toes. (I’ll probably do that from now on so my idea’s will be more original.) This design took about 35 minutes not including drying time.

How To Make Your Own Baby Shower Decorations

To save myself money, and to express some creativity, I decided to make my own decorations for my baby shower. I already blogged about my baby shower decorations on a different post, but on this one I’m going to explain exactly what I used and how to make what I made. (:

First, I googled some baby shower decoration ideas and came across quite a few inspirational ones. The first one I like was this gorgeous brooch that I found on Google Image Search, but for some I cannot seem to find the photo on the search engine anymore. and I didn’t save the link, just the picture. Anyways, I thought it was the cutest brooch ever and it was the perfect theme of my baby shower: pink and zebra. So I went to walmart to get a bunch of supplies to make this. Mine looks very similar to the picture I tried to follow, but I added my own extra girly touches to it and made it look fabulous. I made two, one for me and one for my mom. (:

I bought 1 yard of hot pink craft boa for $4.50 on Amazon. Zebra and different shades of pink ribbons from Walmart. I usually buy the entire roll of ribbon so I can have some left overs for a future project! I bought glitter foam for $0.80 and black foam for $0.47. I had some adhesive rhinestones used for scrap-booking and black bows that I got a while ago for $2 at Walmart. I used those for my ribbon decorations. I used craft glue to make sure everything would stick together really good ($3 at Walmart). I also had safety pins handy, so I didn’t have to buy those, which you can find at the dollar store. First I cute 8 pieces of the zebra ribbon and 8 pieces of the sheer black ribbon to make my flower (4 of each were used for me and my moms brooch). I cut them long enough so that I could glue them in the middle and have enough hanging over to reach all the way to the other side. Once I glued all 16 individual ribbons together, I glued one on top of another in an alternating pattern. Once that dried I cut 2 large circles of glitter foam to use as my middle background and glued that in the center of the glued ribbons for each of the brooches. I then printed Mother-To-Be and Grandmother-To-Be on the computer, cut it out and glued that on the glitter foam. Then I cut enough of the craft boa to form a complete circle lining the outside of my foam. While I let that dry I cut 2 more circles of the black foam to use for the backs of my brooches. I cut a bunch of several different kinds of pink and black ribbon for mine and my moms brooch, glued them onto the foam in a string line pattern and waited for them to dry so I could add the little bows and rhinestones to the ends of each ribbon. Once I did that, I glued to flower part of the brooch to the back piece and let that dry. Lastly I glued a safety pin to the back of each brooch so we could wear them on our clothes on the big day. They turned out looking better than the picture I originally got the idea from! I was very proud of myself. And now, I’m going to save them as keepsakes for my little girl. I’m still debating whether I want to hang it in my room, or frame it in hers. (:

My next favorite idea that I can across and decided to make were these adorable pink and zebra table top imitation flower decorations. Here is the link to the website where the girl teaches you how to make them. I changed mine up a little bit. I had to improvise because I did not have the things that she had. Instead of tin cans I used recycled toilet paper rolls. And I used some pink straws instead of pens because I didn’t have that many of the same kind of pen. I covered the cardboard rolls with the zebra duct tape that I bought at the Dollar Tree for $3.75. Then I taped assorted pink feathers ($5 on Amazon) to the tops of my straws and pens to make the “flowers”. Last, I tied a pretty pink bow around the cardboard to add some pink to the base. I used a sheer light pink ribbon that had wire in it so I could shape the bow how I wanted it. That was pretty much it for those! I thought this was the easiest of them all and it took no time to make. I did have to buy the feathers online though and wait for those to be delivered because I live in a small town (Lake City, FL) where there are no large craft stores around.

Last but not least, the garland. I could not find ANYTHING that I liked as far as a garland for the baby shower. So I decided to come up with my own idea. I drew my own zebra striped on card stock with a sharpie, cut hot pink poster paper in smaller squares to accent the background of the letter, cut black letters to spell “Welcome Natalia”, glued black glitter on the outside edges of the pink paper, and bought a 100 ft. silver sparkly garland from an after Christmas sale for $1.50. The whole thing cost less than $10. $3 for the sharpies, $3 for the paper, and the garland. I already had the glitter, but if I didn’t I would have only had to spend $2 on that. Unfortunately I didn’t get to display this decoration because I could not hang it in the outside with all the wind that was blowing, nor did I remember to bring thumb-tacks. -_-

Well here are three really easy ideas that anybody could use for any pink or zebra party event. They are inexpensive, fun and easy to make! Now I’m going to end this post with one more interesting idea from “Pinspiration”. Hershey’s candy bars; use acrylic paint to pain the he blue for a boy, the she pink for a girl, or both if you don’t know the gender. ❤