Showing posts with label pinterest party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pinterest party. Show all posts
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Pinterest party project #2
Here is the second project that I finished last night. It is a super cute bunting that I know have hanging over the window in our living room. I love how cheerful it is, it feels like I'm getting ready for a party!
Pinterest party project #1
Ta-da! I managed to accomplish 2 projects from my pin boards at our party last night. The first is absolutely genius, reusable towels that fit on your paper towel dispenser!
They are so so so simple to make, I just bought some dollar store cotton kitchen towels and a yard of cotton fabric, cut them to size using a paper towel as a template, and sewed the cotton and towel together. I added snaps in the corners to help them stay on the roll.
I love the idea because I go through SO many paper towels, and they look so much cuter sitting on my counter!
They are so so so simple to make, I just bought some dollar store cotton kitchen towels and a yard of cotton fabric, cut them to size using a paper towel as a template, and sewed the cotton and towel together. I added snaps in the corners to help them stay on the roll.
I love the idea because I go through SO many paper towels, and they look so much cuter sitting on my counter!
Friday, May 18, 2012
Chocolate covered what?!
I've heard of a lot of things being covered in chocolate, from the fairy typical - chocolate covered pretzels or marshmallows, to the way out there - chocolate covered bacon anyone? But this one was new to me: chocolate covered potato chips.
It makes sense really, salty and sweet, a little crunchy, but I wasn't sure I could wrap my brain around it, so I had to try it out. Let me just say AMAZING! Seriously they taste like a candy bar, some chocolate, caramel, and a little crunch in the middle. Some tutorials that I looked at showed the entire chip coated in chocolate goodness, while others showed just half of the chip covered. I tried both and in my opinion covering only half of the chip is far superior - you lose some of the crunch when there is so much chocolate.
That's my little rant, I'm sure you've heard enough, so here's how you do it:
You'll need a bag of ripples potato chips (you may want to go with a name brand, I went for the cheap store brand and most of my chips were broken, which earned me some burned fingers after trying to dip broken chips in molten caramel), a bag of caramels, and 16 oz of chocolate bark (dipping chocolate).
Start by unwrapping the caramels and placing them in a small saucepan, when they are all unwrapped add 2 tablespoons of water and heat until all caramels are melted. Carefully dip half of the chip in the caramel and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet (I used a baking mat which worked perfectly) to cool.
While your caramel is hardening chop the chocolate into small pieces and melt - I prefer to melt my chocolate in the microwave, but that's just me. Cover the caramel part of the chip in chocolate (I left a little caramel showing, just to be fancy) and let the chocolate cool - and I promise not to judge you for sneaking a few while working, I know i did!
It makes sense really, salty and sweet, a little crunchy, but I wasn't sure I could wrap my brain around it, so I had to try it out. Let me just say AMAZING! Seriously they taste like a candy bar, some chocolate, caramel, and a little crunch in the middle. Some tutorials that I looked at showed the entire chip coated in chocolate goodness, while others showed just half of the chip covered. I tried both and in my opinion covering only half of the chip is far superior - you lose some of the crunch when there is so much chocolate.
That's my little rant, I'm sure you've heard enough, so here's how you do it:
You'll need a bag of ripples potato chips (you may want to go with a name brand, I went for the cheap store brand and most of my chips were broken, which earned me some burned fingers after trying to dip broken chips in molten caramel), a bag of caramels, and 16 oz of chocolate bark (dipping chocolate).
Start by unwrapping the caramels and placing them in a small saucepan, when they are all unwrapped add 2 tablespoons of water and heat until all caramels are melted. Carefully dip half of the chip in the caramel and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet (I used a baking mat which worked perfectly) to cool.
While your caramel is hardening chop the chocolate into small pieces and melt - I prefer to melt my chocolate in the microwave, but that's just me. Cover the caramel part of the chip in chocolate (I left a little caramel showing, just to be fancy) and let the chocolate cool - and I promise not to judge you for sneaking a few while working, I know i did!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Awesomely fun
Everyone knows that I really enjoy that wonderful incredible website that is Pinterest. I wish I had thought of it! Instead I just spend a lot of time pinning a lot of different ideas, and after introducing all of the girls at work to pinterest, it was decided that we need to find time to actually make some of the things that we have pinned. This decision began our Pinterest Parties.
Every couple of months we get together to craft and we have two rules; 1. The time is used to make a project that you have on one of your pin boards, and 2. Everyone brings a snack - a recipe found on Pinterest.
Tomorrow night is our Pinterest party and I will definitely share what I accomplish, but you need to know that for my snack I am making chocolate covered potato chips. Go search for them on Pinterest!
Every couple of months we get together to craft and we have two rules; 1. The time is used to make a project that you have on one of your pin boards, and 2. Everyone brings a snack - a recipe found on Pinterest.
Tomorrow night is our Pinterest party and I will definitely share what I accomplish, but you need to know that for my snack I am making chocolate covered potato chips. Go search for them on Pinterest!
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