Friday, October 12, 2012

Sloppy Joe "Pie"

I wanted Sloppy Joe tonight.  Every time I make it though, my oldest cries about it falling out of the bun and wanting a fork.  Last night I was thinking about making a Chicken Pot Pie, and it turned into Sloppy Joe Pie somehow.  Okay, I have Pillsbury Grands, I can do this.

Start peeling each individual part into 3 or 4 pieces.  Spread all over the bottom of a pie pan.  Some up the walls as well.  Set the oven temperature on 350.  Cut the box top out for the local school.






Put the "pie crust" into the oven while it's heating up.  Just about 10 minutes depending on your oven.  Not too much that it will burn later when it goes back in, but not 4 or 5 minutes either.  You don't wanna eat goo.  Cook the hamburger meat while it is cooking in the oven and when it's ready add the sloppy part.



Pull it out of the oven and add the sloppy joe.  Take the already peeled pieces of whatever Pillsbury you picked and add it to the remainder side tops and add shredded cheese.  Put the "crust" on the top and spread it around.







Check on the baby who happened to fall asleep in the living room because it got scary quiet in the house.



Bring the finished Sloppy Joe Pie out of the oven after about 10 minutes depending on your oven (never turn the oven off and it will be nice and ready to go by the time you are finished putting the top on) and let it sit for a little bit to cool off.  Cut it and serve it WITH A FORK.





No more complaining about a messy sloppy joe, yet he eats it with his hands.  Yes, I know all the irony.

You can make individual pockets too!  Use muffin pans and do the same thing!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Friendbook

not sure why, but today i was thinking about photos.  i do this a lot since photos are a huge part of my life.  if i had a fire i would grab my flash drive and leave all my other things behind (non-living things).  this is because every photo i have ever had i scanned and put onto my flash drive and i cannot live without my memories.  i love them.  everything else is just stuff.  my photos i consider much more.  as i was thinking about photos, i thought about how great it would be to have a photo of each of my friends.  individual photos of each of them either facing the camera or doing something silly, but signed.  i would of course scan them to have them forever, but i would save all the originals and put them into a photo album.  it would be like a yearbook, only better.  full of my friends (and family).  all mine personal and meaningful to me.  they don't have to say "to jenni" but it would be nice.  lol  just to have their photo with their names on them would make me happy.  i would love it.  i would want to carry that book everywhere which is why it's soo great to have a digital photo frame that changes constantly.  it would flip though all my friends.  i can go on and on about this, but i will stop and just say i want a friendbook.  i really do.

this is just an example.  not actually signed.  i used paint to prove my point.  :-)  one of these from each of my friends please!  christmas and my birthday are both coming up.  a signed photo of you is all i ask.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Personal Game Board Pieces

This is great for any board game in which you play a small piece.  Candy Land, Monopoly, etc.  Take one of those binder clips (find the size you need either before or after printing) and clip it to the bottom of a picture you printed out of yourself, your family, your friends, or just characters off the internet.  Place boxing tape (clear) over top the front and back before cutting them out to keep them straight and sturdy.  After you have the clip on the picture you can either lift the two sides that you squeeze to open them in order to hold the picture or you can take them off.  They are very easy to take off and put back on.  I did this while I was at work, so I don't have step by step photos.  Make sure you don't print the pictures too large.  You don't want them to fall over, and you do want them to fit in the game spaces on the board.  I printed pictures of my family regular, in costume, as zombies in Candy Land (Zombieland) and all the Lego Batman characters.  My son loves Lego Batman, so I figured he would love being those characters.  The kids played Robin and the Riddler today.  Here are pictures of the VERY EASY finished project.

Family

Family with kids in costume

Zombies

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Banana Split Cupcake (for lack of a better name)

My entire house smelled like a banana split while I made this.  So that's what I am naming it.  :-)

1 box of Pillsbury Strawberry cake mix.
2 eggs
4 ripe bananas
1 bag of fun size m&m's
A couple shakes of chocolate sprinkles (or jimmies for those of us around Philly) from the container

Mix it all together.

I made 18 cupcakes with the muffin throw away pans so they are bigger and the kids wouldn't keep coming back for another.

Preheat your oven for 350 while you are mixing before scooping into the cupcake holders.

Cook for 40 minutes at 350 and let cool

Add Fluff (or whatever your favorite marshmallow topping is or chocolate icing, or whatever you want.  That's the fun part) to the top and you have something that tastes like a banana split while your house smells like one too!  I was going to use cool whip.  I'm sure that tastes great too.  All depends on what you are craving while you are smelling it cook.

Of course you can add nuts or pineapple or whatever you want to the mix or even put it on the top to make it more like a banana split, but this is just my recipe.  :-)

**Also try chocolate cake with strawberries and bananas in the mix!!!

I love cooking without veggie oil.  It tastes better (imo).


Monday, July 2, 2012

argh!!!!

so i go to jc penny for the hairstyle #5.  she butchered it soo bad!  it was poofy all on one side.  one side longer than the other.  she pushed on me that i needed to have it washed and cut and not just cut so it was 12 bucks more for that because it's the "only real way to see what it would look like" after i told her no.  she left me with 3 duck tails!  one in the back, two on the sides.  ridiculous!  i must have told her that's not how i wanted it 4 times.  waste of damn money.  on my way home i was cutting bits and pieces with my sewing scissors i keep in my bag.  i came home, washed it all out and it looked horrid!  bitched about it.  said i'm done with people cutting my hair.  only had people cut my hair a handful of times and this is why.  they SUCK.  after a while i gave up.  i was about to shave my head when i just got up and went to a different location of great clips since the one by me is terrible.  the first girl was not confident she could do anything with it.  she kept asking the other girl.  told her i appreciate the honesty.  i wish other people that couldn't do a certain style would just come out and say it too.  they both told me to call jc penny and get my money back.  she but it all wrong.  she never matched the points.  nothing.  they did what they could to fix it, but it was soo butchered i had to go even shorter.  so, i went with something that now looks like #3.  i wanted this cut, but it's soo damn short on the top that i have to wait for it to grow in now.
since my hair is soo thick everything is MUCH bigger.  the sides are soo poofy it's ridiculous.  i think i am just gonna hold the top part of my hair up from now on and shave the underneath.  close on the back, #5-7 or something closer up by the ears.  then just let it drop.  sucks i have to wait for my hair to grow in now.  it was much longer than this and the first girl messed it up beyond repair.  2nd girl did what she could.  told me to come back when it grows a bit more on the top and she will even out the sides for me again free.  i have the red highlight kit...  wondering if it will look okay on brown hair or if i should go blonde or black.

Friday, June 29, 2012

hair please?

i want to cut my hair really short, but i hava a few problems.  1- i do not like the feeling of hair on/touching my neck.  2- i do not want my hair blowing in my face poking me in the eyes while driving or walking down the street.  3- my hair is VERY THICK.  it poofs when it's not in a pony tail or held down by something (and i do not like using products).  4- my hair does NOT curl.  what do i do???  sick of long thick hair always in a pony tail.  i used to do buns, but the weight of this thing is ridiculous on my neck.  i found a couple that are nice and short but they all have a downside too...


Looks like an 80's boy cut

I would need the front and sides much shorter to stay out of my eyes and might not look as good

Looks kinda tacky...  and I would always look like a boy anime character

My hair would never curl like this..  and I would need bangs.  Nothing poking my in the eyes

Just a tad shorter all the way around and this is really cute...  but I would never wake up early just to "do my hair."  That, and my hair is soo thick it would come out to this plus another layer.  UGH!

Again, this would be a thickness issue, but maybe if they shaved some of the layers?  

Side view of the back.  My problem with hair is always that I hate the feeling of it touching my neck

This has bangs in the front short enough and hair short to the sides, but I would need it to slope down so it doesn't go in my eyes.  Not sure about the look though

This is short, but you can tell her hair is thin.  I really wish my hair would start falling out and go thinner.

One of my friends.  I like this hair, but again, part is long and would go in my eyes

This would be okay, but I'd feel like I had a mohawk and it would have to be shorter in front

All one length, pretty nice.  Wish my hair was thinner for this



Can I just get back into modeling and get picked for movies and have someone else do my hair????



Wedding Songs

I have had soo many people ask me about wedding songs in the past years.  I figured I should just put it in here as well.  Years ago I was helping a friend of mine search for wedding songs.  I went through tons of sites until I said "okay, that's enough!"  You can see I haven't added a lot of recent songs, but I guess I will go back and edit it again with some new ones eventually.  Here is what I found on a bunch of sites and on my own personal playlist.  All on one site just for you!





1-Eternity-dreams come true
2-Amazed-lonestar
3-I love you-Donna Lewis
4-Always and forever-heatwave
5-Aint that a kick in the head-dean Martin
6-After all-cher and peter cetera
7-I'll be-Edwin McCain
8-All my life-k-ci and Jo Jo
9-Faithfully-journey
10-I hope you dance-lee ann womack
11-The way you look tonight-frank Sinatra
12-From this moment on-shania twain
13-A moment like this-Kelly clarkston
14-Crush-Dave Matthews band
15-I do (cherish you)-98 degrees
16-Because you loved me-celeine Dion
17-At last-etta James
18-1 2 3 4-plain white t’s
19-Endless love-Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross
20-At the beginning-Richard Marx and Donna Lewis
21-Truly, madly, deeply-savage garden
22-I'll be there for you-bon jovi
23-I could fall in love-selena
24-Love will keep us alive-eagles
25-Crazy for you-madonna
26-Everything I do, I do it for you
27-Have I told you lately that I love you?
28-Up where we belong-Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
29-100 years to live-five for fighting
30-I wanna be there-blessid union of souls
31-Nothing’s gonna stop us now-jefferson starship
32-Let my love open the door (to your heart)-pete townsend
33-Let’s stay together-al green
34-We belong-pat benatar
35-Heroes- the wallflowers
36-Tiny dancer-elton john
37-You are the sun, you are the rain-commodores (lionel Ritchie)
38-nothing else matters-metallica
39-And of course me and brians song:can't take my eyes off of you-Frankie valli

To dance:
(I will not say electric slide, cotton eye joe, marcarena or that overplayed stuff that people don't know dance moves to)
40-I had the time of my life-dirty dancing st
41-You shook me all night long-AC/DC
42-Sold (the grundy county fair)-john Michael montgomery
43-Any way you want it, and, don't stop believing-journey
44-Get down tonight-kc and then sunshine band
45-Finally-cece penistion
46-Rhythm of the night-debarge (or any of the other remakes)
47-Celebration-kool and the gang
48-The power of love-huey lewis and the news
49-Love shack-b52s
50-Sweet Caroline-neil diamond
51-Life is a highway-rascal flatts
52-Zoot suit riot-cherry poppin daddies
53-Get the party started-pink
54-Take on me-ah ha
55-Thriller-Michael Jackson
56-Hot in here-nelly
57-Hot-avril lavigne
58-The twist-chubby checker
59-Let's go crazy-prince
60-White wedding-billy idol
61-Funky cold Medina-tone loc
62-You sexy thing-got chocolate
63-Super freak-Rick James
64-I can't help myself-four tops
65-Copacabana-Barry manilow
66-Dance dance-fallout boy
67-Walk this way-aerosmith
68-Grease remix
69-Jump around-house of pain
70-Accidently in love-counting crows
71-december 1963-frankie valli and the 4 seasons
72-Hells bells-ac/dc
73-Could not ask for more- Edwin McCain

Cute father/daughter dance:
74-Sweet child o mine-g&r
75-Don't wanna miss a thing-aerosmith
76-Daddys Girl- Red Sovine



Mother/son dance:
77-Through the years- Kenny Rogers

And if they wanna be cute:
78-I want to grow old with you from the wedding singer
79-Come what may from moulin rouge

Garter/Flower toss:
80-Another one bites the dust- Queen



of course there are a ton more songs to add just for fun, but these are the "typically heard at weddings" songs.  (or typically heard on jenni's playlist songs)



And it looks like I wrote this up in 2009...  so feel free to add anything up to date that you want!  :-)


Like Marry Me-Train and things like that.  And I just realized that another Savage Garden song isn't on there that a lot of people loved...  I knew I loved you before I met you.
Hmmm..  I can't help falling in love with you by Elvis OR UB40 isn't here either.  Or at least I can't find it.  I just might have to update this thing afterall....

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Learning, Fun and Punishment for kids

Liquid sidewalk chalk
Tape games
 LINK WAS BROKEN.  I WILL FIND IT AGAIN, PROMISE!

Dear Santa letter
Teacher blog on learning
Sight Word Party

Nurture your child's imagination
100 Things to do wtih kids this summer

Lacy Walker Nonstop Talker teaches kids about talking too much and not listening

21 Creative Consequences

Handwriting Poster

22 Chores kids will love?

Magnetic alphabet board

Look What I Learned poster

101 Fun, Easy, and Cheap Indoor Activities for Kids


Lego Wall.  We did this with velcro so we could rearrange the room without holes everywhere and they loved it.

Candy Land Site word edition

Great Ideas to Surprise Your Kids

Make and takes for kids

Dry Ease face coloring.  Print a picture of your child or family/friends face.  Put packing tape over it (clear).  Give them dry ease markers.  FUN!  Here's mine!


Activities for ages 1-3

Make your own lava lamp

Aquarium plate

Activities for kids.  Sorted by age!

Color by site word

Activities for your 1 year old

20 chores for a 7 year old

Keeping toddler busy

100 children's books and activities to go with them

Teacher Gift Ideas

http://pinterest.com/offonpluto/teacher-gift-ideas/



Pencil dispenser

Plastic bottle apples

Bookworm

A whole blog on teacher appreciation week

Apple Streusel

Apple Hand Sanitizer

Apple Cookie/Cake pops

Another teacher gift blog

Another teacher gift blog

Teacher Bracelet

Apple Jolly Rancher Candle

Apple shaped candle

Apple lotion and mist

Apple scented plant

Caramel Apples

Letter plant

Books

I don't think it would be worth mentioning books without writing something about them, don't you? 
http://pinterest.com/offonpluto/books-worth-reading/





I have to mention first the Monster series.  Monster Island, Monster Nation and Monster Planet.  I like these better than I like World War Z!  Really!  When I heard they were making a World War Z movie I was happy, but I had been saying that the series deserved to be made into a movie.  It will probably never happen, but if it were I'd be first in line.  I really loved it.  It's not your typical zombies.  They talk, they eat everything with a life force (even the bark off the trees) and the mummies (FINALLY) that died after they stoped taking the brain out of the skull before wrapping them even came alive.  I really don't want to give away how this all started, but that's your typical problem as well.  We all know it's coming.  This book shows it did.  The middle book wasn't as interesting as the beginning and the last, but it ties everything together so you have to read them all.  If you want to read something out of the ordinary zombie stereotype and you have an open imagination you need to read them.

Speaking of imagination...  you need a huge one for Breathers.  Yes, another zombie book.  I didn't like this one though.  While it also strays away from the typical zombie stereotype they added things I just didn't like.  They go to meetings to control not eating human flesh.  They are people that died and just won't accept it.  They want normal lives.  They even want a law passed that gives them rights.  Worst part of it all (and this I WILL give away) is that when they do eat flesh they start becoming more and more human.  More and more alive I guess I should say.  Their hearts start beating again.  One chick gets PREGNANT before "breathers" set her on fire and leave her to die again.  I have an open imagination, but this was too much.  It just wasn't my style.

World War Z.  Great book.  Different perspectives from all over the world during and after the zombie outbreak.  How it started.  Everything.  I can't wait for the movie.  I hope it sticks to the book.  If they stray too much it won't be worth watching.  They even have dogs that sniff out if you are infected.  How they train a dog to do that in such a short time, I don't know.  I haven't read it in years, so maybe they said it was a while into the outbreak.  I don't remember.  I just know it actually was one of the best.

Zombie Survival Guide.  Another great book, but honestly I have to say some of it is just common sense and others are a YEAH RIGHT.  I didn't enjoy it as much as everyone else.  I don't know why.  It was good, but not the best.  I think I had too much of an expectation on it.  It's obviously about how to survive a zombie outbreak.  Tips and tricks.  A must have for any zombie book collector anyway.

Zombie Haiku.  It was much shorter than I thought it would be for the price.  If they lowered it to the price of a kids book it wouldn't be so bad.  It was a great short story though.  Throug the eyes of a zombie.  What they think when they go out looking for brains or something they are familiar with.  I liked it.
WILL FIND A LINK FOR THIS LATER, PROMISE
The Rising.  Hated it.  I never even bothered to read the rest in the series.  Every dead thing becomes a zombie.  When I read about a zombie fish I was done.  This was after a man is happy that his wife is pregnant but then the zombie outbreak starts and she dies and the baby corpse inside her is a zombie coming out.  That was ridiculous.  The whole time he is trying to reach his son.  I could care less if he ever does reach him in the 2nd book.  I'm done with it.  I think it was poorly written and doesn't keep my interest at all.

Patient Zero.  I read about halfway and stopped.  This was another one that just could not keep my attention.  I don't know why.  Usually when I start a book, no matter how horrible or uninteresting it is I read the whole thing.  Not this one though.  I can't say much about it.  You'll have to judge for yourself.

When I was younger I read R. L. Stein.  I don't think there was one I didn't like.  I started reading them in 6th grade.  Not Goosebumps for younger kids, but the Fear Street ones.  This was someone I joined a book club for in order to get every new release sent right to my house.  I even wrote him a letter and he put my name into one of his books!  My name was missing the "e" at the end, but it was awesome to see that!  Everyone always spells my name wrong anyway.  My mother in law has known me my entire life and still spells my name wrong.  They are horror books without the terrible language or gore which is great for kids. 

Tattoos

http://pinterest.com/offonpluto/tattoos/

love forever
http://www.iknowhair.com/popular-hair-beauty-from-pinterest-30-march-2012/  this doesn't take you right to it.

skeleton foot tattoo

break this one bitch

this site has a lot of nice tattoos.  
i like gizmo the best

Spider-Man tattoo.  love it

Kingdom Hearts tattoo Aurora.  :-)

Sailor Moon wand tattoo

JTHM

Sora from Kingdom Hearts

Kat Von D

For the Daddy

Beer/Drink Cooler (floating!) - Great man's site
D-A-D Photo.  Here is my own.  :-)  Each letter has a picture of that child with their daddy.  The midde has both kids and their daddy.  Found the frame at AC Moore and did the 50% off coupon for it to come to 10 bucks.  each 5x7 photo was done at Walmart.com for a fast pick up.

We <3 daddy shadow picture
"Daddy, we love you because" photo
Your face on a superhero (just the head to pop on)
Assassins Creed Hoodie

Video Gamer for Life Shirt

Portal Mug
Shaun of the Dead shirt


MY PINTEREST IS A MESS

I have a few boards on Pinterest, and people are following them, so I don't want to upset those who chose to follow a board for a couple of pins by taking a pin out and changing it to another board.  I have already added a few more after people followed them and now they have to go through tons of pictures in each folder to find why they followed my board in the first place.  I want it more organized though.  I figured my blog would be the best place to find that because I can always add more links to my catagories.  Food, Holiday, Birthday, etc.  Not just that, but different food items too.  Desserts, Chicken, etc.  I want to be able to find exactly what I am looking for without going through a ton of photos on one "food" board.  So, keep watching.  It will take a long time since I can't do this at work and I have kids at home, but I will eventually get it done.  I just have to stop pinning for a while.  (HA) 
 
For those of you without a pinterest, I will be adding the actual web page, so don't worry. 

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

baby clothes blanket

I wanted to take a moment and just share some ideas for baby clothes.  You know, the ones that baby made a "mess" in and the onesies are all stained brown at the bottoms...  or the ones that have soo much yuck around the collar that you can't even donate them?  Or how about the ones that you just can't seem to let go of and want to keep?  What I have done is take those clothes and cut squares.  They do not all have to be the same size.  As long as when it all comes together it's all straight on the top and bottom, left and right you are okay.  If it's a picture, cut out the picture.  If its just fabric, that's fine too.  Just make sure you cut the square piece from seam to seam and you don't have the sewed part in your square.  Put them all together.  Make a blanket.  When you are down sewing them all together, go to a crafty type store (or Walmart, doesn't matter) and pick out a fabric to be the back.  Make sure you measure so you know how much you will need.  Place both fabrics nice side down.  Sew three sides.  You can either leave it like this pull it through so it's right side out and sew up the end, or you can pull it through and fill it with polyfil (flat).  If you decide on the polyfil, remember with each wash it will get bunched up bits at a time so hanging it out to dry would be best, after hand washing it.  If you do the polyfil sew little spots through the seams of the pics through the polyfil itself to the back.  Buttons in these spots work nice to cover up any weird looking spots.  This will hold the filling in place.  Sew up the end and keep your babies clothes that you just couldn't part with!  For an example, you can go to the link below and see one finished.  It has two of my old shirts in it and I cut up an old pink baby blanket of mine.  I drew pics on some squares for the rest of them.  I picked a polyester back.  My son loved it.


http://mymiraclebabies-offonpluto.blogspot.com/2011/08/kids-baby-blankets.html