Halloween 2x4 craft

With Halloween being next Friday I thought I would finally get around to a Halloween post!

Back at the beginning of October I thought to myself, 'I don't want to start decorating now, it's way too early'...and then the month snuck by without me even knowing! Oops.

I know I'm not the only one this has happened to...right? :)

Anyways, back to our craft.

A couple of weeks ago there were some guys finishing the basement in the house next to ours. I had come home from picking my son up from school and I noticed a huge pile of 2x4 and plywood scraps lying on the driveway.

I went to the basement window and called down to the workers to see what their plans were for the wood. They told me it was all to be thrown away, but if I wanted to I could take any of it.

GOLD MINE!

I ran to the other few homes on our street and told the other moms about our awesome opportunity, you should have seen us, we were like vultures buzzing around picking out what we wanted. We all had our kids loading up their arms with little piles of wood, and ideas were racing through my mind of what we would should make.

This is our first project.

Priority Chef Garlic Press Review

I have a review for you that I am super excited about!

This is a garlic press from Priority Chef.

And it is my new best friend :)

 I don't know how I have been cooking for so long and have never had one of these, I love it!

I haven't ever minded mincing garlic with a knife, but I can never get the pieces small enough, well this press sure takes care of that for me.

Mickey Mouse Hooded Towel

One of my sweet little nephews celebrated his first birthday not too long ago, and his birthday was Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed.

My baby has a hooded towel, and I love that I can wrap him up all snug and warm after a bath, so that's what I wanted to make for my nephew.

At first I thought about making a cute animal towel, but as soon as I saw some black and red towels at the store one day I knew I wanted to try and make him a Mickey Mouse hooded towel to go along with his birthday theme.

I searched online for some ideas, but I wanted to make something different than what I had seen, so this is what I came up with.
To get an idea of the finished size here we have my 14 month old modeling for you.
(This towel also fit my almost 6 year old, it went down to his calf).

Avengers Super Hero Capes

Do you remember from my last post I mentioned that I had been designing and crafting?
Well, I am here now to show you what I was up to!

I had someone place an order for some super hero masks, and she then asked if I could do capes as well.

I have made capes in the past, but nothing like this.

 I told her I could make some, and I was so excited to come up with these templates!

Roasted Red Bell Pepper Hummus

Alright, so I am finally getting around to a post here!

That took a lot longer than I anticipated. I was all excited to dive back into blogging, but for the last week I was designing and creating, and I am so excited to post that for you soon, but for now I really wanted to share this amazing recipe!

About a year ago I really wanted to try making hummus.

I searched through recipes to get an idea of how it should all come together and then my husband and I kind of created this one.

I am not going to lie, it is a little time consuming, but the results are SO worth it!!

Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta

I have a new recipe to share with you!

This dish is delicious folks!!

The great thing about this recipe is that it can work with whatever pasta you have on hand. We've used shells and tortellini. You could use ravioli, penne, spaghetti, anything! You can even go gluten-free here.

Roasted Cauliflower Soup

I am so excited to share this soup with you today!

This recipe was added to our rotation just a few short months ago, and we've made it A LOT :)

Before making this I had never cooked with cauliflower...ever...weird, I know.

I was intrigued when the recipe said to roast the cauliflower first, and was excited to try this new technique.
I have to tell you, after I roasted the cauliflower, I snuck a couple because I wanted to see what flavors I was dealing with, and it was so good! You could actually just eat it like that. But, you should also try it in this amazing soup :)

Just a quick note, if you recall, my mom is a celiac and my parents were over one night while I was making this. I wanted them to have a chance to try it, so I decided to substitute 1 Tbsp corn starch for the 1 Tbsp flour, and it became gluten-free!