Bacon in almost everything....

Ok I just saw that Denny's is now sporting a Maple Bacon Sundae is this wrong?
Bacon in Chocolate and now on ice cream? I'm not judging. I'm big into never judging a food unless you tried it NO MATTER what. And to be honest as long as there are no chewy fat pieces I could kind of see how it might work but really?

Tell me do you want to or have you tried this? I would love to hear!

And if you are like me and are curious on what this baby runs in the nutrition department here you go:

Serving Size - 12 oz
Calories - 810
Fat - 40
Trans Fat - 0
Saturated Fat - 21

Cholesterol - 150
Sodium - 460
Carbohydrates - 97
Fiber - 0
Protein - 16
Sugar - 85

Hey No trans fat at least hahaha!

Creative or just plain Crazy?

I happened upon a free 5 drawer chest of drawers. It looked pretty nice in the picture (before picking it up) and the giver said the bottom drawer was broken, but I figured I could easily fix that.
Upon bringing it home I realized that the bottom Two drawers were VERY broken (Not just missing a few screws like the owner had said). It actually looked like a kid may have tried to climb it because the sliders were broken to the point of in operable or repairable. the drawers themselves were cracked and broken down the sides. This was going to be more work than I imagined. AND it ended up being a MUCH bigger piece in real life than it appeared in the picture. But it was FREE I'm not complaining so here it is: (Minus the top 4 drawers see the bottom one is literally just hanging there.)
Well Mr. Creative said "throw it out or take it to goodwill now!" So I told him of what I though was a "creative" idea. Fixing all the broken components in the lower two drawers seemed doable but a pain and possibly costly and pointless. My solution: Cut the bottom two drawers off. Mr. Creative was semi open to the idea but then looked at the dresser a week ago and told me "forget it." Well maybe it is silly but I had visions of me taking a chain saw and sawing this baby apart. So I talked him out of driving it to Good Will and Yesterday I took a "4 hour of Me time" break in my garage with said dresser and all our tools (We have many but they are all very basic and I now know why people always want more tools hehehe!) I honestly thought the Mister would chuck it if I waited any longer and I really wanted to try to dismantle a piece of furniture that one had no meaning to me or cost for that matter and two wasn't an antique type piece. Through out the process I made mistakes. I hadn't sat down and planned out as I should have. I also was unsure about my tools and probably needed a few different ones but I was just using what we had on hand. So with a lot of sawing dust and a little Jimmy rigging I turned a broken down chest of drawers into this.

I wish I would have taken picture of the during, but to be honest I had a few high stress frustrating moments that made me not think about the camera as much as if I had just been nuts to do this.
I know you may not think this looks very cool but you have to keep in mind I didn't just saw through it. If you notice I had to cut legs on it. Which required me to dismantle at least half of it. I had a neighbor ask me what I was doing (I think my neighbors laugh every time they see me in the garage because I always have a "new project".)
Things I learned during this process:
1. Cutting furniture down is NOT as easy as it sounds.
2. Pieces that come off may not fit back the same way after you have cut and hammered a piece
3. Planning ahead could save you time and mistakes. (I was really just worried if I didn't hack it out in a few hours I wouldn't get this chance that is why I didn't plan much.)
4. Power tools are awesome!
5. Wearing Big Clear Glasses can save your eyes as well as get a chuckle out of your spouse
6. I want more power tools now that I know what they can do!

So tell me do you think my idea was Creative or are you with the Mister and just think I'm plain crazy?

New project question: Ethan Allen Hancock Chairs

The weather has been such that my refinishing and building/painting projects have been put on hold until the weather warms and dries out a bit. In the mean time I'm always on the prowl for a fun find! I came upon two of these chairs. (one is upside down behind the one in the picture.)
I think they are fun! I love the curves in the arm and the tiny feet.
It even has this pretty cool looking eagle painted on it:
"So what is the problem then?" you are asking....The Rush seats on both of them are worn, Very dirty, and smell horrible.I scrubbed the whole chairs hoping at least the smell would die down. The wood seemed to like a scrubbing but the rush seats would not clean up and just seemed to get worse. You don't see the red and brown gooey food stains that were on the seat in the picture that I could not remove.
I know the chairs look great with rush seats but I have this rule about things coming into my house. If I can't get them cleaned of dirt and smelling better they can't stay no matter how cute their curves and tiny feet are. I looked rush seats up online. Lets just say PAIN IN THE BUTT! I would have to spend a wad to either do it myself or a small fortune to have it redone professionally. SIGH......Then a rash thought came to my mind. I grabbed a box cutter and started thrashing...
And when that provided some but minimal damage I grabbed the trusted Gerber!
And before I knew it I was at this:Looking at this picture you probably think I'm nuts but honestly when I brought the chairs in little spiders were running out of the seat it looks ok in pictures but up close it is smelly and yucky.
So now what to do. I can't really justify the cost to re-rush the seats. I also do not really like the color but painting it would mean I would lose the eagle and other gold lining that is painted on it. As for the seat I think I will cut a board the shape of that area and cover it in fabric for the time being. Now I just need to decide if I should paint them. I say yes what do you say?

A Cereal I love and Unique Chocolate

Do you love cinnamon? Cinnamon Bears, Cinnamon rolls, Snicker doodles, Cinnamon Popcorn, etc?
Then may I suggest you try Cinnamon Burst Cheerios!?!
These things are AMAZING! You can generally find coupons for them right now. Just thought I would share!
I LOVE to try new foods/candy/drinks. I'm have a firm belief that you should try everything once. Not a buffet just a bite of something. Then after at least trying it I feel you are justified in saying whether you like it or not honestly rather than just on the idea.
My friend brought me some dark chocolate to try. And even though I'm generally not a chocolate fan if I'm going to eat chocolate I want it to be dark and I want it to be interesting and interesting it was! She gave me a piece without letting me see the package or know what it was.
I popped it in and immediately got the bitter dark chocolate flavor I enjoy but then my tongue was confused by an underlying flavor that I wasn't so sure about. I sat there for a minute and then yelled "BACON!?"
If you know me you will know that in general Bacon is not my thing. So to be honest I'm not sure how I feel about this chocolate. I wouldn't go as far to say I don't like it because I wasn't totally repulsed by it or gagging. But my tongue and brain really didn't know what to think. I didn't choose to eat more so maybe that says that it is not on my high list but again Bacon and chocolate aren't on my high list so maybe I only needed a little.
What have you tried lately that caught you off guard?

Organization Idea

Do you have a junk drawer/basket/corner that ends up being useless because you can't find what you are looking for? Our Junk drawers biggest issue were all the charging cables for cell phones, blue tooth, etc. They were always either in the way of what we were trying to get or tangled together. So I decide to designate a different area for them in hopes that I can contain the mess and keep things more functional.
I started out with a Container that was cute enough to display. (Since this area is in our kitchen I wanted it to look like part of the kitchen)
Then I twisty tie wrapped each cord into a circle so that each one could not be entangled in the other and put them in the container:Now when I need to recharge something it is much easier to find the correct charger (You could even label each one with colored tape depending on how many you have.) and my junk drawer functions without the crazy nest of wires.

Leslie's Breadsticks (made pizza dough)

I am always on the look out for a quick, simple but still yummy recipe for just about anything. I will try any recipe once. When it comes to Bread dough I have a hard time because I generally don't think about making bread for a meal far enough in advance to let it rise once let alone twice.
My good friend Leslie shared her breadstick recipe with me but I needed pizza dough so I used it for that and I think it is one of my favorites so far. Forgive the photo I'm not the best at pictures it looked SO ymmy in real life! On mine I used half a tub of the New philly cooking cream (the original flavor) I added at least 1/4 cup of minced garlic and Italian seasoning to it. Sorry I tend to not measure. (There is an Italian cooking cream that I'm sure would work well but I had the original on hand.) Then I topped it with thinly sliced tomatoes, chopped fresh basil, sliced sweet onion and an Italian blend of Cheese. (I think the blend was mozzarella, smoked Gouda, and parmesan. (I wish that I would have put more Basil it seemed like a lot but the flavor was not as strong as I would have liked. I also think some cooked chicken would have been fabulous on it.)
As a warning this dough recipe makes a LOT of dough. I made a HUGE round pizza pan and a half a cookie sheet worth of pizza, and that wasn't rolling it super thin. I'm going to try to half it next time.
Here is the awesome recipe with anything in () is what I did. (The bread sticks are super yummy too!)

1 1/2 Cup Very Warm Water
1 Tbsp Yeast
1/2 Tbsp Salt
1 Tbsp Sugar
4 Cups of flour


Dissolve yeast in water. (I usually sprinkle in a little of the sugar my mom always told me it helps the yeast.)
Mix all other ingredients together and then add the yeast mixture.
Kneed until smooth. (Super easy in your kitchen aid, I do not have one and used my hands and it turned out fine.)
Let sit 5 minutes. (Yes only 5 minutes no an hour YAY!)
At this point you either start pulling pieces off and rolling them into bread sticks OR you roll out your pizza dough (The dough should be elastic-y, I was amazed how perfect this dough felt for the first time making it. )

Breadsticks: Roll into breadsticks place on cooking sheet spread with butter garlic mixture Bake at 425 degrees for about 10 minutes. bruch with garlic butter mixture sprinkle with cheese and enjoy!

Butter Garlic spread for breadsticks: (Leslie said this is WAY too much butter I think she uses a 1/2 cup of butter instead. You can play around with the topping to make it the way you like it.)
1 cup of butter
3 tbs Johny's Garlic spread


Pizza: Bake at 425 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes (It depend on your pan and your oven and how soft or cripsy you like your pizza. I actually liked how the cookies sheet baked the crust better than the dark pizza pan I have. Or you could try a pizza stone!)

Do I ever start and then FINISH a project?

So I'm sure many of you are asking if I ever Finish the projects I start. To prove to you that I do I wanted to post one of the MANY projects that I have been working on. This one I actually completed. (Well mostly I'm still considering tweaking a few things on it but if you know me you know that I'm ALWAYS "tweaking" everything to find the best most efficient effective way method etc.)
As mentioned in previous posts I LOVE hand-me-downs. Not just clothes but really anything. So I was given a sweater that was super soft and in great shape but not so much something I wanted to wear (I'm really in the mood to wear summer clothes right now so if mother nature would like to make me happy and get rid of the rain I would appreciate it!)
The sectional couch we bought, 3 years ago, came with two pillows. Although the pillows were ok they did not reflect my style at all, so I always planned to recover them.
Here is the said shirt and pillow before.
And here they are after (They are in the middle):
Awesome right? I made it an envelope pillow cover so that it is easy to remove and wash (a must when you have kids!) I love it SO much more than the original pillow and it cost me $0 so YAY! The only problem is now I love the texture and light color of it so much I don't really like my other pillows any more hahahaah! Maybe I will cover them sometime but I have sworn off taking on more projects until I cross a few off I have already started.
One down 200+ projects to go!