Pizza Partay

Our really good friends Colman and Carlie and us had an awesome home-made pizza party, here are some pics :)

Mama Mia Pizza Ria

The best part was that we got to go see 17 Again after dinner! It was so funny, and no I didn't just go to see it b/c it had Zach Effron in it, although that was a plus. Even Dom liked it, and he is SUPER picky about movies.

Sweet Finds

You know that awesome feeling when you get a really awesome deal on something or find something cute for really super cheap, well I had the opportunity to have this kind of experience yesterday!

SO I have not been shopping in FOREVER, mostly because money is tight right now (such is the life of a newly wed couple) and good shopping is a half hour away from Rexburg in Idaho Falls.

Anyways, I finally got out of Rexburg and ventured out to I.F. with my good friend Kari. We ended up leaving at around 8 a.m. and then got to the D.I. at around 9, but they weren't open until 10! So then we went to this other 2nd hand store and found some sweet stuff for our houses!!! It is amazing what you can find at places like that. Anyway, I don't have pics of the stuff but you will just have to take my word for it, it rocks! 

Here is a list of some of the stuff I got (just in case you were wondering) :

Jacket for Dom ($3.50, not second hand but BRAND NEW from Old Navy, right now all of the mens clearance is an additional 50% off, amazing.)

3 pillar candle holder (9.00, regularly $20-25 i'm sure)

Curtain rod ($1.50, even at ross they were still like $18)

White Vase ($1.00)

4 Pillar candles, 2 round and two square ($2 each, all brand spankin new! and they smell really good, vanilla)

Picture Frame ($0.75)

2 Shirts for me (Brand new from Old Navy also, $5.00 each)

Glass mini-hurricane candle holder ($1.00)

And a couple other things I cant remember at the moment. 

Needless to say I had a BLAST (Kari, you are amazing!)

P.s. in case you were wondering, we DID do something for lovers day, but I have been too busy to put pictures up but don't you worry, they will come!

Custom Design By Britnae Sanelli

I spent all day today toying around with this photo shop program I have and ended up making some pretty cute stuff. Although I have yet to make a successful blog layout that actually fits my page right, I did manage to make a couple of postcard designs so that we can finally send out our thank you cards (or in this case, postcards) from our wedding about 5 months ago (pathetic that we haven't done them yet? Yes, I would say so).

I have so much fun making these little things, this kind of stuff is dangerously addictive for me so I think I am going to have to start using as a reward for getting real work done!

Shoot, if I would have known that I was capable of doing this sort of thing, I would have made my own wedding invitations! Anyways, here are what the postcards look like!

Front

Back side. On the left is where we write our personalized thank you note, on the right is where the address goes :)

Post card front #2 (actually the first one I made)

Back side of post card #2

HUGE thank to Shabby Princess for providing all of the cute papers, ribbon, staples, etc!

Digital scrapbooking

So lately I have been branching out a little in my creativity and started using digital scrapbooking materials to make fun stuff like my the header at the top of my page (compliments of thecutestblogontheblock.com). I found this web site that lets you download free kits that are SO cute.

Here is the website http://www.shabbyprincess.com/downloads.asp

You do need photoshop to make things with them though. I didn't have photoshop so I downloaded a free one called paint.net (http://www.download.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10338146.html). It is basically the same thing as photoshop minus the hundreds of dollars you would have been spending. Don't you just love free stuff?!

Here is a picture of one of the kits I downloaded, I havent done anything with it yet, but it's super cute.

Pear Cake Recipie

By request, here are the pear cake recipe and cream cheese frosting recipe. I love the pear cake and the cream cheese frosting together, I think the frosting is what really makes it so good, but then again I am a sugar-aholic so anything tastes better with more sugar :)

Yummy Pear Cake Recipe:

http://profumoprofondo.com/2008/05/01/simple-pear-cake/

The Last Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe You will EVER Need, Seriously.

http://www.slashfood.com/2007/10/24/last-cream-cheese-frosting/

Pear Cake!!!

Sorry, I couldn't get the writing up to the top of the post so you are going to have to scroll down to the end for that. But for now, here are some pictures!

Sorry this is side-ways

Ta-Da!

Yum yum yum

Cream cheese frosting!

Have you ever had pear cake? If you haven't you are seriously missing out! It is delicious and the perfect thing for those over-ripe pear that you have sitting in your fruit bowl that will never get eaten alone.

Domenic has been begging me to make a pear cake (apparently his favorite next to german chocolate) since we bought pears last week so I broke down and finally made it lat night. It turned out way better than I anticipated.

Anyways, I know I'm a nerd, but I had to post some pictures because I am so dang proud of myself!

Homemade Goodness

Recently Domenic has been teaching me how to make fresh pasta and can I just tell you how incredible this stuff is? Fresh pasta wins my vote hands down. Not only have we made homemade gnocchi, but linguini, lasagna and ravioli as well!

We made a TON of gnocchi at one point and have a couple of customers interested in buying it from us. Whether or not we will make much money is still in question, but the fact that we are learning to become more and more self sufficient in my opinion is much more valuable. And it tastes so stinkin' good!

Here are some pictures of some of the pasta we have made so far:

Homemade Gnocchi

Homemade ravioli (raw), yeah I know they were beasts!

...cooked they were even bigger I swear!

Our pasta machine(s). Dom looks good in a polka-dot apron!

Homemade linguini...yummmm

The pasta drying rack