Halloween Fever!

Fall seems to have rolled around here in good ol' Arkansas and you can tell it in the stores as well. One of my most favorite time of the year. Other than winter because I love love some snow. 

I also love Halloween! I used to decorate every year and loved it. I could not wait for it to come. I kind of got out of the habit when my life made a huge 360, I got depressed got into drinking and drugs but not anymore!! Having a blended family though and not having all the kids under my roof still had me in a depression. I have been stuck in a rut for a bit, not anymore. I am coming back out and I want to decorate and celebrate the holidays once again and to start off with we have HALLOWEEN!! My favorite!! It has to be less stressful holiday of the year. 

I am pinning my heart out and daydreaming of all these elaborate and wonderful decor! I wish I was so creative to make this stuff myself without the help of pinterest but thankfully we have this wonderful site to help us not so creative folk. 

Here is my mood board collage! 

Want to see my Halloween Board? Then Click HERE
Check all of my pinterest boards HERE


What mood have you been in lately and pinning?

Dinosaur Footprint Project

Have you noticed that craft projects with younger kids such as toddlers is actually a craft project for the adult that is helping? My son has a craft he does at the end of his therapy sessions and it usually turns into his therapist doing it or today it was me doing it. 

Logan has 4 hours of therapy everyday but Tuesday and Saturday and by the 3rd hour he is just plain ol give out. Especially when he was going to school. He has been out a couple of weeks now and that will be a future post as to why. In order to make it more fun a craft hour was implemented into his therapy which involves puzzles, books and a craft. Well he likes everything but the craft he could care less for. 

He was supposed to do paint and trains yesterday but he had no interest in it. So I found something on pinterest and wanted to see if he would enjoy it. 

Like I said it was us that ended up doing this project.

What you need:
green paint or whatever color you want your dinosaur
black marker
googly eye
glue

As you can see he was not the happiest person in the world to be doing craft time. The finished product is cute though.

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A Nifty Pinterest Find For The Ipad or Iphone User

I was happy to get on my blogger dashboard this morning or afternoon, and see that things have come back to normal. I hated that one blog at a time and not even being able to click view more and see other posts. I panicked. I read forums and seen suggestions on how to fix it and when those all failed I went and opened up a bloglovin. I of course have no followers but myself. If you would follow me there. I would be ever so grateful and of course return the favor. My Bloglovin' Also while I am asking for follows for things you will see in my sidebar my blog facebook page. Please like it also. The more likes the more I can accepted for product reviews on Tomoson. 

I ran across a pin on pinterest in my late night browsing. If you consider 10p.m. late. I thought it was quite interesting. 

Get to the Pin

I am new to the ipad world. So I am confused on how to use a lot of things on it. I am of course a loyal Android OS user. Have been for years and getting my hands on an ipad, I am totally lost. But the thing is my sons so I have to do something on it. 
I have not been able to go through the entire list but have tried two of the things and they have worked. Well mostly. 
1. Make it more comfortable to type in thumb mode. This is awesome because have you ever tried to type on an ipad like you do on a phone. I tried and it is frustrating and I have a lot of errors. 
The first part says to swipe two fingers across the keyboard. For some reason that did not work for me. I had to do the second option. I had to press the dock and merge button on the bottom right hand corner of the keyboard and there I was. I was in thumb mode! 

Then I have skipped down to number 6. Take a selfie using earbuds. If you have earbuds that is compatible with iphone or ipad and it has a remote to control volume on them you can take a selfie. All you have to do is get in the camera mode with the buds plugged in and click. There you have a selfie with no arms. I had to test it. I am not posting the picture of myself doing it. I was making a goofy face lol. 

 Showing Eric how it works. Love his face
The ipad does not seem to take very good pictures..

Showing the oldest son how it works (Sean) his face makes me laugh too. 

I have not tried the rest of the stuff on the list. If you have what has worked for you or did you already know it? Feel free to follow me on pinterest and pin the pin yourself. Have some fun with some selfies. 


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Lets Talk Pinterest

Pinterest has become a routine in my world. I find myself pinning away at night in bed, on my phone, while trying to fall asleep. I catch myself saying to many people "I found it on pinterest" But how many of the things that I have pinned have I actually tried?? Not many. I have had some success with what I do pin but have also had some fails. 

This little glow in the dark bubbles does not work! In case you are wondering which one it is, this is the one you cut open glow sticks and dump the solution into the bottle and your supposed to come up with glow in the dark bubbles. NOPE does NOT work!
Another fail was terra cotta pots made into a makeshift small heater

I went and bought all the supplies because we had a rough winter and our power had went out. We had no way to heat. I thought if anything I could set this up in a bedroom and everyone gather in there to stay warm. Fail!! It did not work. Plus side I got some extra tea light candles for my oil burners and pots to plant my day lily in . 

Not everything has been a fail, I have had some success with the pins I have took an interest in. Mainly the recipes because I get so side tracked that I dont have time to try out the rest. (I need to remedy that.) Here are some recipes I recommend trying. Pinterest did not fail me here!

Liquid Skittles Yummy!! If you like sweet and dont really like the taste of alcohol this is for you. I loved it!

Pot Roast, this particular one has got to be one of my favorites by far! 

Pinterest has also helped me indulge in some of my wants! If I won the lottery pinterest has inspired me to hope for these

I am realistic, I know I will never be able to afford a piece like this without hitting the jackpot but I can dream! 

I am not a fan of taking baths. I prefer showers but with this in my house I am sure I would be spending a ton of time in the tub!

Pinterest is also handy for finding out some of those life hacks that we never knew about. I have a special board for this called Good To Know if you wan to check it out. Learn how to build an emergency fund, kill ants, half recipes, and What foods are toxic to dogs. Very handy in my household. 

No matter what experience you have had with pinterest such as fails or complete success you have to admit, it sure is fun pinning your heart out! 

Now that I have said my piece on pinterest and shared some of my pins on my post how about joining up over at 5 minutes For Mom. Here it is Pin it Friday where you share your favorite pinterest pins and browse other bloggers favorite ones as well! Lets all get inspired shall we?

Increase Traffic To My Blog(I need pointers)

So here it is, it has been two years or so since I started blogging. At least I think. I have spent all day today trying to figure out how to increase traffic to my blog. 

I participate in blog hops, comment on others I have a pinterest, facebook and twitter. I have opened an account with link referal. 

So fellow bloggers what else is there that I can do to increase more traffic? What are some things you do to increase your blogs? 

The best ones I have found are the blog hops and of course link referal I have received ratings on the site. Pretty cool. It started out rough because I had some issues where my link was broken but I got it fixed and got things rolling. 

Here is the link if you would like to give it a shot

Linkreferral

All suggestions I am open to and please share in the comments so others can see as well. 

Thank you to my readers who do follow. 

Tuesday 10 April 10-17th

Tuesday 10 has arrived again. Wow this week did fly by. This weeks theme had to do with Easter but any theme is welcome. Thank Goodness because I don't think I could come up with 10 things about Easter. My family was never one to really make a big deal out of it. We never got dressed up or went to church or anything. It was simple, color eggs the night before, hide them the next day after getting into our Easter baskets and then mom would cook a dinner. Usually lunch. That is pretty much all it consisted of. 


So my Tuesday 10 is going to be a "simple" to do list..Ten of the most important things I want to do. It may say simple but to me its not. I have so many things running through my head and ideas I just don't know where to start. And when that happens I usually do not accomplish any of it and then move on to something else and the cycle starts all over again. 

Things That I Want To Get Done

 1. I have been working on a cross stitch blanket for Logan for over a year. I got it the day before he was born and thought I had plenty of time to get it done. I am still working on it. 

2. I have this picture frame where you put multiple pictures in it and I have one for my two oldest children and bought this one to do for Kiya over a year ago and well here it is. 

3. I have a friend of mine who recently wrote a book and gave me a complimentary issue to read and review before it went on sale. Well its on sale now and I still have not read it. 

4. Yeah so the Hunger Games Movie is out and I have heard so much hype about it, I decided to read the book. Its on my end table.  I have not even opened up the pages yet. 

5. I need to work on our family scrapbook

6. I need to get  caught up on baby Logan's baby book

7. I need to blog about other things. I have like four of them in mind and just keep coming up with other blogs. Especially the one that featured my son!

8. Ideas from pinterest..Yup that makes it to Ten and Beyond!!!

If you would like to participate in the Tuesday 10 just click on the image and link up!

MERRY TUESDAY YA'LL

If any of you are interested in my friends book you can go here to purchase it for $3.99

Out Of Love

Please check out the blog that featured my son Logan

MA Photography

Gotta Love the Hogs!

Happy Monday to all! Today is Pinterest Monday, and in the light of things going on here in NorthWest Arkansas with the controversy surrounding our coach Bobby Petrino my theme will be an ode to the Hogs! If your wondering what kind of controversy this is please feel free to click on the link. That is if you have not already heard about it. Bobby Petrino and the Hogs

HOG STUFF

If you are from the South or wherever you know that "Duck Tape" is a must have because it fixes everything!

I am not a big fan of TOMS but I would so wear these!

Oh my gosh! I would love love to have this! No it would not be for the husband, it would be M-I-N-E   MINE!!

If your a scentsy lover then the warmer is for you!

This will be my sons room! (yeah in my dreams) I can wish right?

I have got to get these! Are they not the cutest??

I love this

Last but not least the famous razorback car! If your lucky you might see it driving around in Fayetteville Arkansas!

HAVE A PINTERESTING MONDAY