Our Garden SUCKED This Year!

I'm the first to admit it...I'm not the garden kind of person.  I flip out when a bee comes round me plus jump when I see a spider so gardens have never been on my "must do" list!   However, our house we rent have a HUGE organic garden.  Last year's garden wasn't too bad.  We grew peas, beans, greens, carrots, tomatoes, corn, and peppers.  But this year about all we got was tomatoes and shit load of them too!  We have been giving away bags and bags of them for months now.  The beans died, the melons died and the wild flowers never came up!

The shining star of the garden this year was the SUNFLOWERS that my daughter planted!

My hubby promises he will make it happens next year!  I told him that the inside of the house is my domain and the outside is his domain.  I'm just not sure if he gets it yet!  I will go buy flowers to plant outside though- I love having fresh flowers in the kitchen.  

Any tips on how to become a gardener when you really don't have the gardener gene?  

My Pinterest Recipe I Made This Week- Meatball Sliders

Here is the RECIPE that was posted on PINTEREST~ Meatball Parmigiana Sliders

HOWEVER I did a very LAZY version that came out just as GOOD I'm sure (LOL)!

I bought these because I had no time to make homemade meatballs:

 

Sauce: (any sauce will do):

Small dinner rolls (found them by the produce at Target)

Mozzarella Slices:

• Cooked the meatballs in the sauce
• layered the meatballs, sauce, mozzarella on the rolls 
• baked in oven (350) open face for 3-5 minutes- cheese melted
• served with side salad

Everyone loved this meal so we put it in our LOVE recipe file!  Quick and Easy!  I got all products at Target Grocery.  

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Coloring Page Creator - Create unique coloring pages from your own photos in no-time!

Coloring Page Creator - Create unique coloring pages from your own photos in no-time!

Okay, this site is a lot of fun!  This would make a great gift for someone- a coloring book of pictures.  I know lil Mama would love one!

Here is a pic that I turned into a coloring page:

That's cool!!!

Features

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• Create coloring books in PDF format
• Facebook support - Pick photos directly from your Facebook account
• No sign-up required
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Cool Halloween Ideas/Decorations

While doing my research on HALLOWEEN and what we want to do this year I came a cross a couple cool sites with all kinds of Halloween info:

http://www.1halloween.net/

600 pages of Kid Safe, ALL FREE Halloween stuff for children, teachers & parents. Lots of NEW STUFF for 2012. Costumes, masks, coloring pages, games, crosswords, mazes, recipes, invitations, how to draw, party, decorating inside and out and even your car, and lots more. No sign-in required.

There is a lot of cool ideas!
****************************************************** Also came across a cool Halloween E-Book: http://www.favecrafts.com/Halloween-Crafts/Free-Halloween-Craft-Projects-eBook 31 free Halloween craft projects in this printable eBook collection

I also love Better Homes and Garden Quick and Inexpensive decorations go HERE to see more cool ideas 

Here is my FAVORITE Halloween craft from Pinterest

Go HERE to see how to do this cute craft and more

Grocery Shopping~ Organized or Not?

This happens to me about 85% of the time or I bring it and FORGET I have it.  Grocery shopping used to be fun but not so much these days.  Not sure what changed oh yeah FOOD PRICES have gone up so much.  I hate the BOGO deals because it seems they raise the price so really you are getting both items for what they should be sold at.  

I do sit down and make out a list but when I get to the store and find items on SALE then I change up my menu.  Stick to the PLAN PAM but it doesn't always happen.  I'm not a big coupon person but every once in awhile I'll use coupons but is it worth the time and trouble?  Some grocery clerks are not always so nice at a couple of the stores I go to- not because of the store I just thinks it's their personality- mad at the world syndrome.  They scare me from using coupons because I see how they treat others- rolling of the eyes and the way they speak to the customer.   However, it would be nice to save some money!  

The day I go grocery shopping I write up my weekly menu after researching for hours on Pinterest on the cool foods I want to make that week.  I try to write the list in order of the aisle of stores- keep me on track I guess.  

What are your Tips/Tricks on GROCERY SHOPPING?

iPhone Freebie~Fairy Tale Storybook/Game 3 Days Only

"Elfishki and The Giant Cake" Fairy Tale storybook for iPhone is now FREE but only for 3 days ONLY!

In this iPhone version you will find:

• Multilingual storybook with professional voice-overs

• Same amazing illustration

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Lil Mama loves this game- she likes making the cakes!