HELP! I am looking for a tutorial.

****UPDATE - The lovely Ms. Jenni over at Kissed by a Frog came to my rescue super stinkin' quick less than 30 minutes I would say.. and told me where the awesome pens were... they are over at PolkaDot Whimsy and are these awesomely cute suckers...*** THANK YOU JENNI!!!!

If you follow the trail from PolkaDot Whimsy to Sew Sara this is who originally did the pom pom pens and has the pom pom pens info and the headband tutorial here...

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Last week I think on Friday I ran across an adorable set of pens that had a cute little flower on top of them made of fabric and the pens were wrapped in fabric too.

The person was doing them for her friend who is a thirty-one gift consultant to give as gifts. The pens were pink, black and white. I loved them and wanted to make some. Silly me I forgot to pin it to pinterest. So instead have searched for over 3 hours looking for it again and can't find it.

Anyways, the person that made the pens linked to the tutorial for the flower that someone had made to put on a headband. She had altered the tut to make the pens. Anyways, I want to make them so bad and can't figure out for the life of me where I saw either thing.

HELP!!! If you know where I can find this I would really appreciate it!

Thanks and have a great Monday!

TTFN~

Making Cookies with a Blogging Buddy

2nd attempt at this post... if blogger deletes this again I'll scream... :o)

As I said in my #1 on Highs from earlier this week, I got to make cookies with an awesome chick who is none other than Jen over at Life, Crafts & Whatever. She had asked me if I could show her how to make Flood Cookies.

Uhm, duh who wouldn't want to spend time with such an awesome blogger... I mean really she had to ask?

So we decided to do it at her house because of how long flood cookies take to dry. Because we were doing this at her house and I wanted to make sure she had everything we would need, I asked her about some supplies. So... here is how our e-mails went...

Me: "Do you have a kitchen aid?"

Jen: "I don't have a kitchen aid, is that a blender thingy?"

Me: "I will bring my kitchen aid to make it go a little faster this time, its a beast, but worth bringing."

Me: "You have at least (2) cookie sheets and a cooling rack right?"

Jen: "I have cookie sheets. I can't promise that they aren't all rusty, but that's what tin foil is for, right? And what's a cooling rack? Can i just use a grate out of the oven? Can you tell I haven't done this before?" <--- no you don't say

I had to go to the cake store before I went over there, so Friday night I stopped by to grab some specific gel food colors and and picked Jen up her own cooling rack...

So the morning of going over there I get out everything to take:
- Kitchen Aid
- Cookie Decorating Box(yes I have a large clear box that has all the cookie decorating goods in it... don't judge)
- Sifter for the Powdered Sugar... I knew Jen wouldn't have one if she didn't know what a cooling rack was she would think it was another strange gadget.
- Big ole rolling pin
- Cooling rack I bought for Jen, so she now knows what this is and how to use it
- Two cookie sheets
- Other odds and ends

So my bad on actually teaching her how to make the cookies, I just was putting in the ingredients and following the directions, it wasn't until later that she said... you kind of forgot to show me how to make these (OOPS! - it was my invitation to come back and help her again I guess <-- I got off on August 12th - woohoo!!! so I will be over at Jen's house making cookies that day)... it wasn't until we started cutting out the cookies that Jen actually got her hands dirty...



Then after they were done being baked we started decorating.

Jen decorating:


Me decorating:




Both of us (Jen is the pretty one... I am the pasty white one):


Jen's pretty cookies:




Now I am sure you are asking yourself where the pictures of my cookies are... mine didn't deserve photos taken of them. I think her Jake (both of our awesome hubbys are named Jake) said something like it looked like "I shot my cookie a couple times" when I was trying my wet on wet technique the for the first time. Needless to say, Jen's were much prettier and I told her that in August when we do this again for Ava's party that I would bake them and outline them and she could decorate them.

Before I left for the day we were able to get this adorable picture of the two of us... again, Jen is the tan, skinny and pretty one and I am the pasty white one showing off my 4th of July spirit.


I had so much fun and can't wait to do this again on August 12th.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

TTFN~

It's Stinkin' Cute Craft Thursday #62

If you don't check It's Sew Stinkin' Cute on a daily basis... well shame you then... no, just kidding... but seriously though, this week I posted about my awesome diaper wipe holer tutorial on Tuesday this week it even has a pattern (now go take a look... I'll wait for you to go see).

There really were some amazing choices this week that I really couldn’t help myself on going overboard on the features.

First things first, I will be featuring my friend Jen who without her I would not have been able to make Laci’s IBK bling shirt. Jen is over at Life Crafts and Whatever and is super awesomesauce! She used her machine to cut this adorable princess template and made an awesome rhinestone princess shirt. I <3 it!!!


Second over at Little Sprinkles of Fun Alicia shows us this adorable Ruffled Pinafore (don’t ask me what it means, I am assuming it is a fancy name for super stinkin’ cute outfit). Did you use a pattern because this thing rocks!


Ashley over at Simply Designing linked up not one but two tasty looking treats, first she linked up these cute as a button mini cupcake push pops… I want those containers so much!!!


Second she linked up some very pretty 4th of July Cake Pops. They turned out beautiful and I am sure were incredibly tasty!


Last but not least is this AMAZING stroller makeover by Laura at Laura’s Thoughts. I have to admit, I would have given up and just bought another one. I’m impatient like that sometimes… this would have been one of those times.


Thanks so much for all the amazing links! There were more that I wanted to feature, but I had to cut it down somehow! Have a great week, features grab your button and I look forward to what comes in this week!

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