Pinterest Pick # 9 Salt Lake City, Utah

Hello There!

Hope all has been well with you all since my last post! Thanks for returning! As promised I have a pretty rich Pinterest Pick coming at you for this post! I am sure that it is clear that this post is about my recent trip to Salt Lake City, Utah! Now I know what you are thinking, WHY SALT LAKE??? Well, first of all Salt Lake City is one of the most BEAUTIFUL places that I have honestly been to. I did go there once many years ago, but I was with my family on a trip and we were really just driving through, stopped at a Super Wal-Mart, and were on our way. I have been to other parts of the state as well, but again on family vacation. Since those visits, I had always wanted to return as an adult and see Salt Lake City specifically!

As I have built up my Pinterest boards over the years I always find posts of places I want to go and archive them in my "Places I would Like to Go" board. Boring title I know, but in my defense it was one of the first boards, I ever created. I wasn't as creative with my titles in the beginning...lol! Anyway, Lets just say there was a couple of times where I would see a pin of this beautiful place with out know what I was looking at until, I saw "Salt Lake" in the description.

Check out these Pins!








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Ok, Seriously???? Who would not want to see this view of the GREAT SALT LAKE with there own eyes. That is crazy, mind blowingly, AWESOME!!!!




These pins give a whole new meaning to the Sunrise, Sunset song from the Fiddler on the Roof!





All I can say is.... WHOOP! THERE IS IT!  IN YOUR FACE WITH THESE INCREDIBLE BREATHE TAKING VIEWS!
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Here is a random pin -------------------------------> You know that is a good looking kid! HA!  I can see it now... some proud mama drags her kid to see one of the most beautiful places in the world, and forces him to take pictures where??? That's right, the mall! He seems like a good sport though and because of that I had to showcase this pin. :)

 SO...  what are we looking at and why would someone pin this pic to begin with, you ask? Well, it is not just to show off their kid, this mall was epic! Let me explain, the hotel

I ended up staying at is actually attached to this super cool mall called Mall at City Creek. This thing was massive and stretches at least three city blocks. The place is ridiculously huge and had tons on stores! Most of which I sadly admit I didn't go into for multiple reasons: One, Some of those stores were out of my price range! Shoot, I can't even afford to breathe the air in some of those stores, let alone purchase any of the merchandise. Two, I was actually in town for a conference and honestly did not have that much free time to shop. In any case, I did have some free time and used it wisely might I add. Yes! I walked around one of the coolest malls I have ever seen. Did I mention that supposedly the roof of this mall is supposedly retractable and can be closed when it gets super cold outside, but is left open when the weather is nice? Whhhhhaaaa? I don't know how true that is, but the idea is awesome! Totally pin worthy if you ask me!

<------------------------------ Of course this is more of a Birdseye view of the entire city. Again, super awesome! What legit city do you know of that is surrounded my freakin' mountains???

Now to my experience of course! I need to preface that pins do this wonderful city no justice! My pictures don't give this city justice, it is a place that deserve greatly to be seen in person, not through a lens captured in a photo. With that said forgive the ridiculous amounts of photos that I am about to share and yes, explain! :)

Ok below is our drive from the airport, down Highway 15, to our hotel. I know this pic probably is not the best, it was sort of a drive by shot; however, I like it because you can see the Salt Lake City sign and HELLO, Look at those Mountains!!!!!!

This next picture is a view from my hotel room. Recognize those arches??? That's right, I have a great view of the City Creek Mall with the retractable roof. YAY!

I included  the following picture because it shows how this city is completely dead on Sunday's. Granted, this city is very, predominantly, inhabited by people of the Mormon faith. It is understandable that things would be a little slow on Sunday's because of that.... However, just know if you ever visit, be aware that nothing is open on Sunday in Salt Lake City. You looking for a local shop? Closed! Looking for a Pharmacy?? Closed! Ok, I exaggerate but still, the city is more dead than I thought it would be, go figure! lol 

This next picture is basically one of the many, probably hundreds of entrances, lol of the City Creek Mall. 

And Below is a panoramic pic of downtown including the church/cathedral. So yes, I am a crappy tourist, I don't know the official title of the main attraction/monument in the city... and I cut off the top of the picture, well my iPhone did that, but still..,. Regardless, What I did capture, was super cool!!! Woohoo! ;)

This is a view of the fron of the mini temple. We (My totally awesome friend Priyal and myself) were actually allowed to go inside. As we entered, an organ played automatically and it was quite nice if I do say so myself.

<------ Shot of the back of the Cathedral  :)

Shot of the Front of the Cathedral !

The last three photos are basically a display of the ride home, the airport, etc... but you can't tell me that they are not crazy cool shots from the window of the plane :)<

Well, there you have it! My trip to Salt Lake City! Luckily I have wanted to go there, and even had some archived pins to be able to blog about! Hope you enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed the city :) And I apologize for the random underlining that popped up all of a sudden, not sure how to make it go away!

With Love, Salt Lakes, and Random Underlining, 
Bee  

Pinterest Pick # 8 The New Doo

Pinterest Pick # The New Do!

Hello my Bloggees! 

I have been out of town so I apologize for such a lapse in blog posts this week. I have been busy though and have been pin picking like crazy to make up for my absence. With that said I have a couple of posts that will be coming to u all this week ! Woohoo! 

Ok, all the blog bureaucracy, B.S., and all that jazz done with I will get to my new , awesome, hair-do. 

I have been pin-stalking a lot here of late to decide what I would like to do with my hair. Some specific defs that made up the basics of my search are as follows...

-I knew I wanted to do some color. Def something two toned, but wasn't sure about specifics.

- I knew I wanted to keep my length! Can I just say that, LIKE AN IDIOT! , I decided I would chop off my long hair about a year ago. My reasoning for that decision was fueled by my desire to have the best of both worlds... With short hair, I figured it would be much easier up keep. I WAS WRONG! At the same time I figured that if I had a desire for long hair I would just use some clip in extensions. The downfall to that idea was that, although I have the skill to properly place extensions, and make them for my own hair, I have no time to sew in those clips on the hair tracks ... In any case, My ideas did not quite match my commitment and I ended up chopping my long locks, to essentially be stuck with the short hair. Lets say that I will never cut my hair again. 

- I knew that I was in disparate need of some layers... My fear of cutting led me to avoid the hairdresser for a while. This also meant that I had grown out my hair and it was now pretty much all one length... BORING!

Anyway, now that my hair has grown out significantly, I have become very stingey with the hair I have grown. If I do allow someone to trim it , I make sure they understand the difference between trimming, and hacking! (To be fair, my hair dresser that cut my hair before, did exactly what i asked... no hacking took place that wasn't requested, just an epic fail on my part when it comes to decision making) Luckily, I have found an awesome hairdresser who I trust to do what I ask when it comes to my hair.  Which brings me back to my pin picking for the best hair-do. 

With my preferences in mind I was in search for some hair ideas. The pins below stood out as front runners for what I was looking for. 

<--------------- I loved these colors , I knew I more than likely would get fired if I showed up to work with such bold hair, so my idea was to use these colors , but invert the idea. Essentially, I wanted all over red/auburn color with some golden blonde highlights on top. I have to say that my desire for two toned stemmed from Sons of Anarchy, I wanted Gemma Teller hair ...lol 

<-------------- I loved her layers, I mean look at the pin! That cut is just super sexy ! Also I knew my hair was about this length anyway! 

I did see tons of other ideas via Pinterest. But these were the main ones that I brought to my hair dresser! I still was a bit fuzzy on what I wanted when I actually asked my hair dresser to work her magic... I wasn't clear exactly what kind of red I wanted. Did I want something with more brownish red? I knew fire engine red was a def no way, that was for sure ! Or maybe I wanted something that looked brown inside but in the sunlight had some red tones to it... I flipped through the Paul Mitchell color book, and found my red, and gave my stylist some color freedom when it came to choosing a blonde that would compliment the reddish brown color I chose. She worked her magic alright! 

<------- And here it is , my new awesome hair-do! I love it more than I thought I would... Hopefully you all like it too ! 

Love and Gemma Teller Hair, 

Bee

Pinterest Pick # 7 Buffalo Cauliflower

Well Hello Again!

 

So this week I have decided to pull yet another recipe! This time I found a recipe for Baked Buffalo Cauliflower! Here's the Pin

 

Now, doesn't that look really good!? I thought so too! To be honest I thought to myself when I saw this pin "Well, I like the sound of Buffalo Cauliflower, but I like sound of Buffalo Chicken better!" I had to suppress my urges, silence the screaming from my inner fat kid, and decide that buffalo cauliflower will be my next pin pick! NO chicken for me! It's all about the Cauliflower, baby.

My first dilemma was trying to figure out exactly where to start. You see, this was not the only Buffalo Cauliflower recipe I had pinned, this was the "SKINNY" version of the recipe. How in the world could cauliflower, not be skinny? After reading the other recipe's that contained straight up cream, and other recipes with buttermilk, some of the other buffalo cauliflower recipes even called for the cauliflower to be breaded and deep fried. Now, as awesome as that sounds to deep fry cauliflower, it kind of defeats the point of eating veggies, no? So after much self talk, encouragement, and him-hawing, I decided I would stick with healthy  and go with the recipe from skinnytaste.com.

So here is the official recipe directly from the site...

Spicy Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

Skinnytaste.com

Servings: 6 • Size: about 1 cup cauliflower • Old Points: 2 pts • Points+: 3 pts

Calories: 119.4 • Fat: 2 g • Protein: 4 g • Carb: 21.4 g • Fiber: 3 g • Sugar: 0.2 g

Sodium: 1172 mg

 

Ingredients:

 

1 cup water

1 cup all purpose flour

2 tsp garlic powder

22 oz (6 1/2 cups) cauliflower florets

3/4 cup Franks Hot Sauce

1 tbsp melted unsalted butter

Directions:

 

Preheat the oven to 450°F. Lightly spray a large non-stick baking sheet with oil.

 

Combine the water, flour, and garlic powder in a bowl and stir until well combined.

 

Coat the cauliflower pieces with the flour mixture and place on the baking sheet; bake for 20 minutes.

 

While the cauliflower is baking, combine the hot sauce and butter in a small bowl.

 

Pour the hot sauce mixture over the baked cauliflower and continue baking for an additional 5 minutes. Serve with skinny blue cheese dressing if desired and celery sticks.

After reading the recipe, I knew this would be easy enough to do since I already had everything I needed, except cauliflower. I searched a bit for the best looking head of cauliflower once in the store. I am not going to lie, I felt kind of like an idiot! Let me explain, I am used to buying cauliflower frozen, steaming the crap out of it, and eating it! So I was not sure at all about how to pick out a decent head of cauliflower. Do you thump it? Squeeze it? Smell it? I wasn't sure, and God forbid I start doing all these things to a head of cauliflower, while standing in the produce section of my local grocery store, looking like a complete fool because all you really have to do it is grab one and buy it because they are all the same! I was a bit nervous! So, what did I end up doing??? I just grabbed the one that I thought looked the cleanest through the plastic they were all wrapped in, and went with it!  
When I when it actually used my cauliflower it looked ok, so a guess I did a good job! :)

So I went to following my recipe, and yes, this was much easier than the Avocado Egg! Thank goodness too, because I would not have lasted that long this time. lol! What I am going to divulge next, I must say, I contemplated just keeping to myself, and saying that I followed the recipe exactly. On the other hand, that would be a lie. Let me remind you, I am no Julia Child, nor do I have patience... lol! I am lazy remember? SO what did I do that was so different from the recipe? I added the hot sauce and the butter to the flour mixture. I didn't realize until after mixed everything up that I misread the instructions. Oh well, what was done, was done. We would see how bad I messed it up when the cauliflowers came out of the oven.

So they baked for 20 minutes, I did read that part right. Especially after the Avocado Egg fiasco! If I screwed everything else up, then dang it, they would be cooked for exactly the time and temp they were supposed to be baked at!

I pulled the baked cauli's out of the oven and could smell the hot sauce... YUM!!! It looked surprisingly good! I was actually excited to try it! I scooped my serving on to my real plate this time. I figured I owed it to you all reading to at least display my creation on a real plate! You all are worth washing an extra dish for, right!? Once dished out, I drizzled a bit more hot sauce on to the plate for decoration! Well, actually the extra hot sauce served a second purpose! The first was all about presentation, but the second was that I wanted to eat the extra hot sauce, of course!

Here's was my finished, and plated, Buffalo Cauliflower's. ---------------------->

Pretty huh? Well, at least better than the last time I tried to cook hopefully! lol

Is it arrogant for me to say how awesome these turned out, even with my misreading the recipe mishap, they still tasted great! There is no way that this was "skinny", but it was and that made me happy! My inner fat kid was thrown for a loop with this one, that's for sure!  I was so proud of myself for this one!

Now just a couple of helpful hints for those of you that want to try this for yourselves!

• Make sure to put aluminum foil down on your baking sheet before dumping your heavily coated buffalo cauli's onto it. That pan was a pain to clean, and you all know how I hate to wash dishes.

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• Go easy on the hot sauce. Now, don't get me wrong, I am no punk! I like when the spiciness is kicked up a few notches, but the serving I had was MUY CALIENTE! The serving that I had later on with no extra hot sauce was just as good!

Ok folks that is it for this pin, let me know if you all try it! This stuff really did taste pretty dang good, if I do say so myself! I loved it! Hope you enjoyed!

Love and Hot Sauce,

Bee

Pinterest Picks #6 - #SAVEBENSON

Hi There!

Tonight is a very special night I must say! Not only is it my bestie's birthday (Happy Birthday Constance!!! Love You !!), but it is the night of the much anticipated season 15 Premiere of Law and Order: SVU. Holy Crap! I am so excited because I love this show... which of course brings me to my Pinterest Pick for this evening! 

So I was perusing on the internet and of course was stalking the Official SVU Webpage in anticipation for the new premiere. My goal was to check out the new clips when I saw the Twitter feed. I clicked the link of course! When the Twitter feed came up I saw a twitpic of a T-Shirt that was made for the Premiere... A black T with that simply read #SAVEBENSON. My first thought was, I want one! So what did I do? I ventured up to my trusty "PIN IT" button on my toolbar and Pinned the picture to my, "Things I Want" Board. So sure I pinned the pic, that may be cheating for the sake of the blog, but let's just say I had an idea! 

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When I first saw it they had not officially created the shirt yet, so I couldn't just go an buy it! But, I wanted one! I WANT TO SAVE BENSON!!!! Then I came up with the idea to just make my own #SAVEBENSON shirt; however, the more I thought about it, I figured that would be too difficult and time consuming. I mean, let's be real, I needed to have it ready by tonight so I could rock it while watching the Season Premiere. It was at that point that I came up with an acceptable alternative. I would make a #SAVEBENSON koosie! 

Now let me explain, I am no alcoholic, but after seeing the preview I knew I would need some booze to get through the evening. So you think I am over reacting? I am sure you are saying to yourself "Booze to get through an episode of SVU??? Come on, Chick!", but this episode is going to be EPIC!!! To justify my need for booze I have graciously provided a link below for the preview I watched, in case you want to see! You're Welcome! (BTW, get a shot ready! lol)

http://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-special-victims-unit/video/what-i-want/n41074/

SEE??!!?? I AM FREAKING OUT! I just had to do something to show my SVU/Benson support! Making a #SAVEBENSON Koosie would be perfect! So I ran over to Wally World, grabbed a plain koosie, and headed home to start decorating! Yes, I am a true craft geek because I happen to already have fabric paint and sparkly stickers on hand..lol So I went town on my plain pink koosie! I knew I wanted to make it bright and happy since I know the episode is going to be ridiculously intense! So that is what I did! Hope you like the result! 

Sorry, about having to squeeze it, but I wanted you all to be able to see as much of it as possible. 

Honestly, the picture of my koosie does not give it justice by any means. I have tried to include a link to my instagram video to provide a 360 degree view... 

Check out the 360 Degree view here... http://instagram.com/p/eszFYRhzkn/

If for some reason the link doesn't allow you to click it, then you can just copy and past the link into your browser, and it should come right up! If it still doesn't work, then sorry, I don't know how to make it :/

Ok everyone, I am off to get set for this episode! It is going to be crazy I know it! I just wanted to make sure to pay tribute to my favorite show's new season premiere... AHHHHHH! I AM STILL FREAKING OUT!  Hopefully, you all can go watch it too! Tonight, NBC, 9pm eastern time! 

Ahhhh! Let's go save Detective Benson! 

Love, Koosie's, and SVU, 

Bee 

Pinterest Pick #5: Recover-Me-Some-Shoes!!!

Good Evening Lovely Pin Addicts and Hopefully Soon to be Pinterest Picks Blog Addicts ;)

This pin was quite interesting and it caught my attention immediately! This pin was a tutorial on how to Recover Shoes! The idea that I could go to run over to my local Goodwill, grab the cheapest pair of shoes I could find, bring them home, and then completely transform them!!!! Whoa, I have got to try this! I click the pin for further instructions, and Presto,  I had the directions on how to make junkie shoes, AWESOME! All I needed apparently was a pair of shoes, modge podge, fabric, and a pair of scissors. Well let's just say after looking at the directions that is all I determined I would need... lol. (Correction, my weapon of choice when it comes to fabric is an exacto knife.) 

SO I got past the section of the directions that said "What you will need" and  determined that I had everything that I needed except the fabric and the shoes. It was the rest of the directions that seemed a little... well, difficult! I could just picture it in my head... I would run out grab these ugly shoes to recover along with the perfect fabric, and go hard! Cut -Cut here, Snipp - Snipp, there, and a couple of HOLY CRAPS later, and my outcome would look like a hot glued mess in comparison to the beautiful example I had to follow. I mean let's be real, some people just don't have that kind of patience. I can say that in my head I feel that I do have enough patience to conquer a pin like this, but that leads up to our next issue, TALENT! Again, I am claiming it, but won't fully go there until the product is completed, right?

Despite my self doubt, I decided I am gonna jump in this bowl of grits anyway! I am going for it, I will recover some shoes dang it...lol. Off to Goodwill I went, my goal was to find the most comfortable pair of shoes possible. On the other hand, I had to try to look past the ugly color and lack of cuteness, and try to decipher if I could potentially  pull off the shoe make over of the year!

 Hmmm? This is actually a lot more difficult than it seems! Most of us will purchase a shoe strictly based on looks. Who cares if you can barely walk in the shoe! We buy it anyway if it's cute. It doesn't matter if by the end of the first day wearing a pair of shoes your left ankle is swollen and more than likely sprained, and your right foot is shot to hell with blisters bigger than Dolly Parton's... well, you get the idea, right? Comfort means nothing when buying shoes. Usually because it is impossible to find a cute pair of shoes that are comfortable! Well I was going to change that with this project. I had to try very hard to focus on the structure and fit of the shoes, not the look and them. I found the perfect pair. Seafoam Green Kitten Heels, some bleach stains along for the ride. My foot slid right into the shoe and it was a perfect fit. I took a couple of steps and felt no potential for a blister? SOLD! 

Now it was on to the Fabric. I wanted something that represented me, but would look good on a shoe. Now, If I could have found fabric with Meryl on it, I would've bought that, but sadly that doesn't exist. So I kept my eyes peeled and then I saw it! Fabric with music notes?!?!?! LOVE IT ! And yet again, SOLD! 

I ran back to my house with the last items I would need to set out on my shoe recover journey. I pulled out my seemingly complicated directions and went to town. As I began to go step by step through the instructions, I realized that the lady who wrote them out was a total genius and every step made perfect sense once I had the materials in my hand to follow along. A process that I thought would be long, drawn out, and complicated, turned out to be easy and most of all, fun! 

I bet you're wondering at this point how they turned out? Well you can judge for yourself! This first pic gives you an idea of what my shoe looked like before and after the recover.

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And this pic shows you the finished product. I personally love them and have warn them several times since completing them! I have never gotten so many compliments on a shoe before. Yet, the most important thing about them is they are super comfy. They still look as great as they did when I made them and I hope you like them as much as me! 

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I couldn't leave you all hanging, just in case you wanted to try this shoe-recover thing out yourself.... Here is the link to the tutorial I used to make mine!

http://www.lovemaegan.com/2011/11/houndstooth-shoes-diy.html

 It really is incredibly easy to follow. Might I also add that the Blog I found this tutorial on is like a Pinner's DIY HEAVEN! So many more cool things you could make on this sight, and the creator of the blog is absolutely great when it comes to breaking things down and explaining how to create GREATNESS :)

That is it for today! Now on to the next pin!

With Love and Kitten Heels,

Bee

Pinterest Pick #4 The Avocado Egg!

THIS PIN!!!! OMG.... Let me explain! So I saw this and was looking forward to actually trying this out as my first recipe Pinterest Pick. I didn't have to buy or cook with anything that I wasn't familiar with,  this little lovely snack looked delicious, and based on the directions the recipe SEEMED easy enough, right?




So before I get into my cooking experience this evening, let me start by saying I am NOOOO Julia Child or Rachel Ray! Shoot,  I am more like one of the kid cooks on Rachel Ray's new Kid Cooking Competition... lol! I think I am a good cook when it comes to things I enjoy eating and can follow a recipe pretty well (Unless, I have to BAKE, Lord help us all if I had to bake something :/ )

Anyways, I headed to the Grocery Store, picked out the perfect avocados, grabbed some eggs, and then hurried home to get to my anticipated Pinterest Pick.  As I prepped, I pulled out the instructions one last time which read as follows:

         One of the healthiest and yummiest breakfast/snacks ever!! High in protein and healthy fats.              SO good for you! And delicious Ingredients: Whole avocado Eggs Cayenne pepper (or any                spice of your choice) Cheese (optional) Remove the stone from an avocado. Scoop out a little            more avocado to increase the size of the stone's crater. Crack an egg into the crater. Sprinkle            with Cayenne pepper (cheese too if you desire). Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until egg is              cooked to the level you like.

So, this is what I began to do... I started by cutting my beautiful avocados right up the center, digging out the stone (Which I always called a seed! I think it is a seed and the writer of the recipe was just trying to be BOUGIE!!!), and also digging out a bit more from the avocado to increase the crater's size. I was following the recipe perfectly, or so I thought. I lined my avocados on an oven sheet and pulled out my eggs. In my mind i would crack this egg into the crater and it would sit perfectly... NOT THE CASE! lol I was actually naive enough to think that would happen! Now let me paint the picture of what really happened. Crack, I break my egg, and begin to pull apart the shell carefully so that none of the shell pieces fall into the center of the avocado with the egg. PLOP, in goes the egg into the crater, and TIP goes the ENTIRE AVOCADO, spilling out my entire egg onto the cookie sheet. Um, it should have occurred to me that the weight of the egg would roll the ROUND, avocado onto it's side. It didn't not occur to me honestly, until it happened and I wanted to smack myself on the forehead and let out a loud, DUH! I should have stopped when that happened but, I was bound and determined to make this happen. I came up with a great idea, which should have been written into the recipe to begin with, might I add, to slice off part of the round bottom, to make myself a flat platform so to speak. So I did this, everything looked good, we were back in business.

Now that I had fixed the "Round Bottom Problem" and clean up my mess, I was ready to try to crack my egg into the crater again. Crack! Plop! In went my egg directly into the crater of the avocado. This time I did it! My crater could have been dug out more because about a fourth of my egg spilled out over the side, but for the most part, it worked. Honestly, I may have tried over and over until I got it perfect, but I was out of avocado and almost out of eggs at this point. I repeated this action three more times to complete my four avocado halves. Each with excess spillage of egg, but at this point nothing would deter me from my task. Not even the fact, that in my head I envisioned this process running like a show on the Food Network. Let's say it was a perfect cooking show tutorial version of me completing this task playing in my head, of course until I actually started doing it. Turn's out they can only make cooking look easy on TV. The truth is... ITS HARD!
I was done with that stage! Now on the the seasoning. PHEW! IF only this whole process could've been that easy, just a little sprinkle sprinkle and all the prep was done, the nightmare was over! Into the oven it went!

I waited and waited, 15 minutes at first , then another 15 minutes. I kept checking and checking but my egg was not cooking! I should have know cooking something at 180 degrees with no specific time limit meant, THIS WILL TAKE ALL NIGHT!  So I admit, I got a bit impatient and turned the oven up to 325. That worked like a charm my eggs were cooked in no time and I was able have a finished, and surprisingly edible result.

Forgive the plate display, I am a firm believer that no person should ever do dishes, so I only use paper and styrofoam products!  This is what I ended up with once everything was finished.  It tasted Ok, I was a bit disappointed though. Not as mind blowingly good as I thought it would be. Just tasted like and egg inside of an avocado with lots of pepper on it! Let's just say the mediocre taste was a direct result of my mediocre cooking skills. You all should try it on your own to see if it comes out any better :)

Can I just say that I won't be covering a cooking pin for a while, I need to recover from this somewhat epic fail!

Well that is that for tonight!

Love and Avocados, no Love and Hotdogs!!!! (Cuz that is what I should've spent my time cooking, I know how to make Hotdogs! ) ~ Bee

P.s. This post was way longer than I anticipated, and it's late, so I am not proofing this right now! Hopefully you won't mind it for now...lol

Pinterest Picks #3- Tat It Up!

Hello Blog Readers and Pinterest Addicts!!!!

This post will be a special one! On the other hand, it may wig some of you out, who knows. I do want to make it clear that this post is a Pinterest Pick that occurred a while ago. No, I did not run out and get a tattoo just because of this blog. Although, I must admit that would be totally badass, and maybe it would get me a boost in blog followers. lol Anyway back to my story! Personally, I have found myself strangely attracted to tattoos. Early on in life, I would see people with tattoos and think they were super cool. In all honesty, I always wanted one, but had this intense fear that I would get one and it would look like crap, or I would get one and two weeks later totally hate it! Well, let's just say one day I drew up a tattoo idea that really meant a lot to me, got it done, and have been getting tattoos ever since. With that said, let me burst all of those imagination bubble that picture me as some tatted up chick, that looks like I should be riding with the Sons of Anarchy crew. I have a few tattoos, that I love dearly and that is that. Trust me though, if I made more money I would more than likely have a lot more! lol!

Now that you have some back story, Pinterest lead me to develop multiple random ideas for more tattoos. Essentially fueling my ridiculous desire to get my entire back done, or get a sleeve, or something crazy and over the top just because it looked awesome in a pin. Of course, I realize that is a bit extreme so I have curtailed my hardcore tattoo ambitions and turned to Pinterest to help me figure out a more reasonable tattoo idea that is suitable to my life and career.  I kept seeing awesome 3-D tattoos like these:


Now this one was pretty cool, gruesomely beautiful in my opinion... Yes, I wanted something like this! Something tearing the skin, revealing a piece of my soul.

 

 

I saw this simple little strand of music with the illusion that it is jumping off her foot. Now that was cute to me, a little less likely to cause concern to the on looker...lol!

 

 

 

 

 

Then I saw THIS... : D ------------->

Holy Moly! Gosh, If only I had the guts to actually get this tattoo, right! That is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life! BUT... How would it look when I am 87 with saggy thighs and chunky knees ??? Right, not cool so let me pop that imagination bubble as well...lol!

 

My Pinterest search continued, the more 3-D tats I saw on Pinterest, the more sure I felt that I wanted one! Not sure where I would put it, or exactly how I would make it work, but I was sure! Then, I saw this :)

IT'S BEAUTIFUL! I could care less about the birds and clouds, but the placement and execution was DOPE! It was like a light bulb turning on in my over crowded brain, allowing me to see exactly where all of my ideas were and pull them all together! I would bring this picture along with me to get my tat, along with sheet music. Not just any sheet music, but the sheet music that meant a lot to me. Each of my younger siblings and I have a song. My song for my little sister is Pink's Perfect, and then my two songs for each of my little brothers are Adele's Make You Feel My Love and Monica's For You I Will. I wanted the actual notes to each song to look like it was under my skin.


So I brought my Pictures, Music, and very crappy drawing I did myself to illustrate to my artist, what exactly I wanted. He sketched for a bit and the stencil was made!




When I saw it just with the stencil I knew I would love it! I was in the chair for about 8 HOURS! Taking it like a champion! The funny thing is, Even though it hurt like hell, I was somewhat distracted because my artist had The Walking Dead playing on the TV while he was working! Not bad, if I do say so myself, lol. We stopped three times, once for him to eat dinner, and twice for me to pee! So when I say 8 HOURS, I mean it! In the end it was totally worth it! My awesome tattoo was exactly what I wanted and just as pretty and unique as I thought it would be! My Pinterest searching paid off and after compiling several pins that I found, I was able to get a tattoo that I will love forever!

Love and Ink,

Bee

P.s. If you are planning to get a tattoo, don't necessarily jump on Pinterest, find a tattoo, and go get it done! I spent months trying to figure out exactly what I wanted so I would be happy with it for the rest of my life! A year later I don't regret it one bit! I am actually in the process of using Pinterest to my advantage now to help me come up with my next tattoos idea! I hope you like it! :)

Pinterest Pick #2- Special Effect Make Up!

Pinterest Pick #2- Special Effect Make Up!

So I decided that I would attempt this crazy make up that I found on Pinterest! The Pin I found was this...


Totally Awesome Huh?!?!? So I search my make up box, and examined its contents, I did have some Ben Nye theatrical face paint, but only black :/ I looked further and saw that I also had black eyeliner, and a truck load of different eye shadow colors. I knew it may not be exactly the same as the picture due to lack of materials, but I figured I could work it out.  I did happened to have a pair of white contact lenses, to really help everything come together. BOOM! I went all in! Three hours and a messy workspace later, I completed my task. Here is the outcome below...


I am pretty pleased with the results considering most of this was created from a Dollar Store eye shadow pallet...lol. Who needs MAC, not me I have the Dollar Tree??? 

Anyway, I hope you like it as well. I would put up a make up tutorial, but I am sure that you all have better things to do with your next three hours then to watch me do my make up, like going on Pinterest, right? :)

Love and Eye Shadow,

Bee





P.S. If any one is actually reading this, I would love to read any comments you have.Even if you are a Pinterest Addict yourself, and want to suggest some pins for me to try let me know! Thanks

 

 

 

Pinterest Picks #1- Finger Knots

Pinterest Picks #1- Finger Knots

So I came across this pin the other day and pinned it under my LOL;) Board... This Pin was entitled, "Finger Knot's". The more I thought about it, the more I thought to myself... "I can do that!!!"

So I tried it and not only was I unable to do it at the time, I am really unable to do it now....

Should be called "Finger DO KNOT Attempt"... lol

Please note: Finger was not injured in the process of this attempt... This injury occurred a while ago...

Another Note: Even with 5 healthy fingers I am nowhere close to actually completing the real Finger Knots....

Stay tuned I may be able to work on my finger flexibility and accomplish this one after all :)


Love and Finger Knots,

Bee

Hello Blog World!!!

Hello Blog World!!!

I have always wanted to create a blog, well, let me be honest... I have 'started' about five blogs; however, never had the where-with-all, patience, time, dedication, or grammar/writing skills to actually stick with it long enough to make it a real blog. To be even more honest I am going to translate my previous sentence... I AM LAZY! lol

In my defense, I can recognize my flaws and own them, so please cut me a break. My desire to ever write a blog came subsequently after I watch 'Julie and Julia', I figured I could do what Julie did! Write a blog everyday about something that I am passionate about.... BUT what to write??? What am I really passionate about in this world? What topic/subject matter could I write about and be engaged with regularly? Hmmm??? First Thought... Meryl Streep... I own all of her movies, know everything about her, and could totally make time to watch one of her movies a week and write about my thoughts! Then I thought to myself, how many readers could I pull by reciting Meryl Movies verbatim, and spouting my VERY BIAS opinions about those movies. It would just be boring to everyone, but me and the rest of the "Streeper's" (That means Meryl Fan's for those of you who don't speak fluent Streep (; ) in the world. After all this thought, I found myself back at square one... What can I blog about??? Then, all of a sudden, it hit me like a ton of bricks! I will blog about PINTEREST!

I love Pinterest! It is such a perfect platform (in my opinion) to express yourself and lose yourself all at the same time. I mean let's face it, every Pinner know that Pinterest is a giant mind suck, black hole, that no man should have ever dared go. Since Pinterest was created, there are now millions of people who spend hours looking at pins that include everything from food, to fashion, to football, and everything in between! Then you let us pinner's actually save all of our random pins in a creative organized fashion, WITH NO LIMIT, and it's done, I am in!

Now to the real reason behind the idea for a blog... What good is Pinterest if you pin, and pin, and pin, all day, and never try out the recipe that you pinned? Why pin if you have no intentions of trying out that crafty project you think is so cool, or creating the awesome face scrub you found that will supposedly keep you young forever ;) ??? We Pinners want to do the things we pin, but never seem to stay off Pinterest long enough to try what we find and archive.

This blog has been born for the pinner's in the world who spend hours pinning things they want to try, but never do! I will attempt to chose pins from my vast sea of categorized boards each week. From there, I will bring one of those pins to life, whether it be to try a recipe, do a suggested work out, or create something inspired by pin I have collected. Each week I will feature the pin and tell you all what I did with it! Hope you enjoy!

With Love and Modge Podge,
Bee

P.S. See the images below courtesy of Pinterest :) hence the reason for this blog...lol

BUT THIS PIN PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP HOW THIS BLOG CAME TO BE !!!!