Riverton Housewives Round Up # 66

Welcome to the Riverton Housewives Round Up # 66!

  We want to see it all!  Recipes, crafts, organization, refashioning...whatever you can come up with!  The link up will be open from Wednesday to Sunday.

After linking up, please take some time to check out some of the other link and share the love! :-)

We only have a few rules to play at our party!

~You must be a follower of our blog.  (Feel free to follow us on Facebook too!)

~Please pick a couple of your favorites and link up.  Just make sure it's nothing you've linked up with us before!

~Make sure you link back to our blog somewhere in your post or on your blog.  (A text link will be fine, but we do have a great button over there on the right you can use too!)

~Please no giveaways or Etsy shops.

If you have been featured, be sure to check out our Pinterest where we have pinned all your awesome creations!

Also as a reminder, if we can't save a photo or link to the URL we can't feature your awesome stuff.

So get to linking up!  We can't wait to see all the amazing stuff you all have to share!

Here is what we LOVED from last Round Up!

This Caramel Drumstick Cupcake came to us from Season of Sweets!  It looks so perfectly amazing, I can't wait to try it out!

This is possibly one of my favorite projects that has ever been linked up!  These Party Hat Cupcake Stands came from Hoopla Palooza and they are just so much fun!!

I Dig Pinterest shared this delicious recipe for Monster Magic Cookie Bars!  My boys saw this picture and BEGGED me to make them!  This is one request that will be easy to fill! :-)

And our MOST VIEWED...

Pinkapotamus shared this great post on how to Get Craft Show Ready!  She has some great ideas to help your next show go smoothly!

Thanks so much to all of our friends that have linked up!  Be sure to link up all your new things and remember to link back to us!

The Housewives get a KEURIG!!!

Recently we were contacted about doing a review of a Keurig and my initial thought was *ummmm...we don't drink coffee* and then I did a little research and JUMPED at the chance to review the Keurig, they do SO much more than coffee!

We were sent the Keurig OfficePro and I am hooked.  Because we don't drink coffee in my house along, with their normal sample pack they included some hot chocolate.  My kids were OVER the moon at the idea of *instant* hot chocolate and those who know me and my LOVE of hot chocolate know that I was pretty dang excited too.  The OfficePro has a lot of neat features, I especially liked how easily it was to set up and the 3 different cup sizes are awesome.

From out of the box to completely set up took only a couple minutes.  Everything was in 1 piece and the only thing you have to do for it to be ready to use is run a cycle of water through it, it was SO fast!

Obviously if you're a coffee drinker you know they have an insane amount of coffee drinks for you to choose from.

However, if you are NOT a coffee drinker you may NOT know that they have Hot Chocolate (including Ghirardelli), Apple Cider, LEMONADE, a large variety of teas (hot and cold) and Vitamin Burst drinks.  I was really surprised (and happy) at how many not coffee and decaffeinated drinks they had.

I highly recommend the Keurig, they have quite a few different sizes of machines to choose between and I don't think you could get bored with the drink varieties!

My favorite drinks:

Full disclosure, Staples.com provided me with this Keurig OfficePRO Coffee Brewer for the purpose of this review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. To see the full line of Keurig brewers and K-cups, visit Staples.

Blog Wars Round 1 RESULTS - Day at the Beach!!!

I am SOOOOO thrilled that I made it past the 1st round of Blog Wars.  I'll be honest, I was seriously freaked out this whole weekend that I wasn't going to make it through.  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all the people who voted and kept me in for the next week!

Now that the results are posted (click here to see if your favorites were voted through) I am allowed to share my project with you.

For the 1st week Provo Craft sent each of us a sheet of black glittery iron on vinyl (and a few triangles of teal and pink glittery iron on vinyl just for fun).  I was so excited and so scared about what to do.  Honestly, trying to think *outside the box* when it comes to any type of vinyl these days is HARD!!!

I headed to the store and found these 3 items.  They were adorable on their own and I was determined to see if I could make them even cuter.

(tote from Target - $9.99)

(beach towel from Target $6.99)

(yellow shoes from Target $16.99)

I bought the bag, towel, and shoes and then got started with what I wanted to put on them.  Using my Cricut I found the Life is a Beach cartridge and fell in love with the Anchor.  I decided to use that and then added the "ahoy" using the craft room basic font for a little more *fun*.

Here is where I admit that doing the iron on ON the shoes was a little bit tricky!  It wasn't *hard* but it was a little tricky and took longer with the direct heat to get it to stick but once it was stuck it felt really really STUCK.  In true JENN fashion I totally burned my knee with the iron, I swear (and my husband will back me up here) I cannot do ANYTHING without burning myself.  Luckily I am pretty tough.

After the shoes, the towel and the bag seemed to go pretty quickly.  I was thinking how fun this could be as a gift.  A 12"x 19" roll of glitter vinyl is $14.99 and would last through at least 3 projects like this.  So, if you just did the towel and a bag and like a magazine or water bottle or something you could have this project done for about $20, not bad for a personalized gift right?!

NOW onto the next round.  I am super excited because our supplies this week are FABRIC from RILEY BLAKE!!!!!

I have so many ideas in my head right now I just need some time to sit down and make them happen.

Wish me luck PLEASE and thank you again to everyone who came and voted (even if you didn't vote for me) - the votes make it really fun!

Have a wonderful day...I've got to get my house clean, another BUSY week this week and today is my only day to be home and make things happen!