I was lucky enough to be chosen by benefit cosmetics! A house party is where they send you their products for free, you invite your friends over and show them their products. There are samples that they get to take home and they are able to try out the products without feeling pressured to buy anything.
So if you have read the Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins and liked them or even if you haven’t, you are probably aware of the movie that just came out. I am always wary of movies based on books because the books are ALWAYS better and lots of people never read the books because of a bad movie. This movie was great, more below about that below. Here is an excerpt from The Hunger Games which describes her costume so you can see what I was trying to recreate:
One day after seeing so many beautiful pictures of french Macarons, I decided it was time to attempt them. I made these before the Super Bowl, and I decided this was the dessert of choice for me to bring. I ended up making the Macarons three different times. The first two they tasted great but didn’t have the official “look” so I tried again. Below I will share what I learned, what recipe, I used and the myths I decided to not care about.
I love to bake, and the problem with liking to bake is that it can get expensive and make you fat. Most of the time with I bake, we eat a little bit and give the rest away. This makes others happy,but doesn’t help the whole saving money thing. Anyway, I had been dying to try and make a butter beer cupcake recipe since they all looked so good. My goal was to also make them very moist cupcakes so that Grant would like them. Below you can see what recipe I used.
I was finally able to help host another shower on March 3rd for Elana who is another girl in my young married’s group. There are SO many couples pregnant right now, but this was one of the few showers I finally asked early enough about to be able to help. Anyway, all of us girls did different parts of the shower, and I think it turned out very nice. This was the weekend right before Grant left for Chicago for training for work, so this weekend was VERY busy. Right after the shower, I had Ally’s birthday party to go to. Simon and Sarah were also visiting that weekend, and so Sarah came with me to the shower while Grant and Simon had guy time.
For this last baby shower that I helped host, I decided to try my hand at a floor pouf. I used THIS tutorial which made it very easy. It took about an hour to make but that was because I made my own piping and had never made one before.