Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Planner 10/17-10/23

This weeks plan with me theme I made a little cooler since my themes as of late have been a lot warmer in color. I went with a blue with gold here and there. Very simple.


Basically everything is the same as last week it's just different pictures and washi. But they are all from the same places.

Sorry for the late post though. It was parent/teacher conference today.

Friday, October 14, 2016

FOOD: Best Home Made Pizza EVER!

It was pizza day today at our house. So I thought I'd blog about it. Even though I was actually planning to blog about our pizza day.

Everything was made from scratch except for the sausage, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. Those I kind of cheated on and just bought them from the store. I though I'd blog about the most wonderful pizza dough that I've ever made. I actually got the recipe from Crouton Crackerjacks if you wanted to give his recipe a try. The video is linked above so by all means check him out!

The recipe calls for:
2 T sugar
3/4 cup warm water
1 t active dry yeast
1 t salt
1 T olive oil
2 cups all purpose flour


This is how my yeast ended up looking like. I took a photo too soon but your yeast should foam up pretty good after 10 or so mins.

We live in Arkansas and it's starting to cool down a lot so I couldn't throw my dough in my car like I normally do and let it rise that way. So today I preheated my oven to the lowest it could go and then turned the oven off and let the dough sit in the oven. It came out perfectly fine. I threw on some pizza sauce I made then topped it off with cheese, pepperoni, sausage, green and red bell peppers, and some mushrooms. Obviously you can top your pizza with whatever you want but this is what he had.


We also made a stuffed crust pizza with the same pizza dough. My kids love it! We've been using this recipe for about a good 6 months or so now. We still enjoy it. It may be a little bit more time consuming but I feel like I save just a tad bit of money making it at home. I can make two pizzas for about the same price of one pizza if I were to buy it. Plus the little ones love to help.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Planner 10/10-10/16

I've never done this on my blog before but I thought I'd let you guys in on how busy my little life is. =)
Ever since I started going back to school I kept forgetting to do homework here and there so I started using a planner again. Last year a had a big bulky one I purchased from Walmart. Then at the beginning of this year I purchased a At First Glance planner from Target. Which was pretty expensive and to me was not worth the money. Then right before classes started this semester I started looking for other planners on youtube. And that's when I found this! The Happy Planner.

I purchased the 2017 seasonal Happy Planner from Michael's August 6th or 7th because that's when our state was having our tax holiday.


The pictures that fill up 1/3 of the daily blocks are mainly googled photos.This helps cut down on purchases from etsy stores. I just bought sticker paper from Michael's, printed on them, then cut them out by hand. I could of purchased a sticker cutter but to me it wasn't worth the money since I don't really use my planner or plan outside of the school year or sell on etsy.

My washi tapes are from two main places. Michaels and the Target dollar spot. As for the decorative stickers some are google print outs and Target dollar spot sticker books. The arrows, reminders, and such are from the Happy Planner sticker books.



The pens I usually use for my planner are the PaperMate Flair pens that come in assorted colors. I occasionally use the Sharpie permanent marker with the ultra fine point too.

Next post I'm thinking of doing a late foodie post. So if you're foodie person check out my next blog. Which by the way, may or may not be Thursday. I'm trying to get into blogging again but being a full time student, mom, and farmer is actually hard if you believe it or not.

Anyway, thank you for dropping in and reading my plain and boring posts!

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Mini Target/Michaels Haul

This past Friday I went and ended up picking up a few things. I intended to go to Target and pick up the super adorable candy dishes that I was seeing all over youtube. And yes, youtube made me buy it. On a serious note I found them all. If I'm correct there was 5 but I only picked up 4. They were $3 each if you were wondering.
 Jack-o-lantern candy dish

 Cat candy dish

 Ghost candy dish

Cauldron candy dish

The last one that I found but didn't purchase was the mummy candy dish which looked similar to the cauldron dish. The cauldron to me is the only one I can see myself using year round. I ended up passing on the mummy because I felt like eventually (after Halloween) I'm going to be putting away the other three. In my head it made sense not to get them all.

After Target I made a quick voyage to Michaels (three stores down). I saw a few youtubers picking Autumn/Spring and gold/silver foil type paper pads so I wanted to check them out. Sadly I couldn't find the gold/silver paper pads that I saw on youtube. There were gold/silver paper pads but not the ones I saw or anything that caught my eyes. So I kind of passed on those. The ones I did get were more Spring colors but with Autumn patterns.

I bought 4 paper pads for $5.99 each. I also took advantage of Michael's 25% off of your entire purchase. So I basically ended up getting all 4 of the paper pads for less than the full price of 1 of them. Can you say STEAL!


 Craft Smith Southern Charm



Craft Smith Honeydew


This paper pad had a few gold foiled pages but I didn't take any photos. Sorry. It kept flashing back and I couldn't get a good photo of the foiled. Please forgive me.


Recollections Fall at the Park

 I mainly bought this for the fox page but I didn't notice until I got home to further inspect it that there was only 1 page. This paper pad book is kind of weird in the sense that there were multiples of 1 page and others there were only 1 or 2. I'm not so sure since I think this is my first Recollections paper pad.


Craft Smith Fall Embossed

The embossing on the pages is the main reason I bought this paper pad. I intend to turn some of these pages into my planner cover. Whenever I get the free time to.

That is all I picked up. Hope to see you in my next post.