Blue Cheese, Lettuce and Tomato Pizza

I made this from a Rachael Ray magazine. So, check out the her's here. Of course, minus the onions and PLUS bacon. Even Johnny liked it.

Just standard crust, with blue cheese and mozzarella baked on to it. Topped with romaine lettuce and cherry tomatoes that were soaked in olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper and basil. Then sprinkled on cooked bacon.

Bathroom Fix

Husband Johnny was away at a convention for a few days.  I couldn't sleep.  The bathroom wallpaper HAD to come down.  So over 2.5 days, I did some changes to the bathroom.

Let me break down the supplies I used:

• White Semi-Gloss Paint for trim $14.97
• Summer Memory Paint $25.74
• Trim Tray Set $2.89
• Paint Tray Set $2.77
• Vent $4.89
• Wall Paper Scrapper $6.97
• DIF Remover $4.97
• Outlet $2.95
• Switch $1.88
• Covers x2 90 cents

TOTAL: $68.93 + tax (but I did use a $10 Menard's rebate check)

The blue paint I used was leftovers from the living room. Menards had a big paint square with several colors on it that they say match and look nice. So I just keep using colors only from that square. They are the experts.

BEFORE:
Hunter green sponge paint, rusty vent, dark trim, icky hinges.
AFTER:
I painted the trim white, painted the walls Summer Memory, painted the cabinet Merced Blued. I bought 8 hinges (at $10.99) to replace the icky ones, but after removing them I noticed they just needed to clean them.  After a good cleaning, they were fine. Which was great, since it saved me $11, and saved me from having to measure and drill new holes.
BEFORE:
Connor removing the wallpaper.
AFTER:
Removed wallpaper. The walls aren't in the best shape, so there are all sorts of bumps. Sigh. Replaced the old tan/off-white/cream colored outlet with a white one. My first time doing that. My good buddy Joel helped me, by guiding me through text messages.
BEFORE:
Connor removing more wall paper. He helped me peal it off. I had to soak it with the DIF spray and scrap off the gluey residue. It was hard work, but the spray worked great. About 90 minutes to get it all down.
AFTER:
No more wallpaper, doors painted white, and light switch replaced with a white one. My first light switch replacement too.
BEFORE:
I forgot to take a picture with the wallpaper still on, so I drew what it looked like in. When we first looked at the house, we were like "Oh my god, we have to fix this bathroom before we even move in!" 5 years later..... Also, notice the weird brown rusty spots under the mirror. I tried to cover those with paint too.
AFTER:
And here I am. Pretty much done. I do need to touch up some spots with white paint, but i am always needing to do that.

Strawberry Float

Strawberry Crush Soda
Vanilla Ice Cream

Together. Love.

Deck

Yikes. It needed re-staining. And it is not done yet.
And, it needs some serious fixing. One thing at a time.

Grill Pizza

Excuse the picture, it's not a good one, but it's hard to photograph with one hand, and hold a smoking hot pizza in the other!

I took my standard pizza crust recipe to make this. Once the dough had a few hours rise time, I used a good chunk. Using my hands, I formed out a circle, covering it in extra olive oil. I preheated the grill to a pretty hot temperature, then tossed it on! After about 3 minutes, I very carefully flipped it. Once the crust was flipped, I put on my toppings and cheese, and continued to grill it with the grill cover on, for maybe 5 minutes. The crust turned out FANTASTIC.

Lego Cars

Check out the cute cars Cobby made by himself. He is a very talented Lego creator.

Salt and Pepper

I haven't been really posting much. Summer, Cabo, Vacations, Laziness.....you get the point.

Anyway.

For my 30th birthday, I went to Cabo San Lucas Mexico. And picked up these lovely salt & pepper shakers. John hates the Fiestaware ones so much that he won't even buy them for me. But we agreed on these cuties. For 100 pesos. (That is about $8.50) They are petty cute, but the holes are really big, so I am going to have to do something about that. I don't really use salt & pepper shakers though, I am a Kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper kind of person (snobby, I know) but they do look cute next to my Tangerine Fiestaware Pitcher!