Home made cheese balls... Yummm

What You'll Need!

However many string cheese sticks you want.

Plain bread crumbs

Italian seasoning

Little bit of milk in a bowl

Pre Heat Oven to 425 degrees

Oven safe pan

I used scissors, but you can use a knife or anything.

Cut your cheese sticks into bite size pieces- Mine were roughly half inch!

(Don't mind the seasoning in the milk- picture is from round two!)

Take all your pieces and place them in the milk and let them sit for 10-20 seconds to soak up all the milk.

In a medium bowl- place 1 cup of bread crumbs and sprinkle some Italian seasoning over it. Make sure its all stired up!

Take all of your little pieces out of the milk and drop them into your bread crumb mixture and make sure they are all covered.

Take one at a time and dip it back into the milk and back into the bread crumbs so you have a double thick crust and place on to your oven safe pan.

Mmmm... Look at them go! Oven should be at 425 degrees and you can place these in for 8-10 min. Make sure half way through you turn them over so they don't burn!

Wala! Serve them with sauce or in my case, my daughter likes ranch so thats what we served them with!

PLEASE ENJOY!

All "pretties" must have a place...

I had found things on "Pinterest" for make your own cakestands or cupcake holders, and just figured I wouldn't ever need that, but low and behold walking through Goodwill I ran across these three pieces. Candle holder, plate and... the unknown cool looking one with a handle! Realizing quickly that all of them stacked would make a perfect place for all her "pretties" I snagged them! All pieces $1.99! I had primer and let my daughter choose what color she wanted with the black...

Neon pink it is! I went at it spraying my primer first. Then gave it 2 coats of the pink to make sure there was "No white mama"

Let them dry, flipped them over and repeated the process.

Putting this baby together was a little more challenging than I had expected, but realized all I needed was my handy dandy... METAL AND GLASS GLUE! Stuck them all together and withing minutes they were stuck. I placed a little ribbon around the top to tie it in with the "Pretties" theme and she is in love.

Now, just to walk around the house and find one pretty at a time... is another story, BUT at least they have a place. Even more soothing to think it was only $9.00 and customized the way that she wanted it- priceless. :)

Table to Bench!

Well! First things first, I made a trip to Goodwill today, not knowing what I would find, but was looking for something of the sort~ of course not leaving with just the one item, HOWEVER, besides the point. I FOUND THIS! $4.99, This little wooden "table" as they had labeled it... was staring at me. I had to have it.

Next, I ran down to Home Depot and grabbed the primer (as I was out, usually lasts me forever!) and a navy blue to match my house. I grabbed extra staples and away we went! Total cost there was roughly $10.00

Next was Joann's Fabric! I found this indoor/outdoor fabric onsale for 30% off and realized I needed less than a yard, WHOO HOO! $4.87. I decided to go a little more spendy on the pads, seeing as my husband was going to be the one sitting on it mostly, and they were $18.00, BUT I had a coupon so I spent a total of $18.00.

I used a hot glue gun as well, but it is optional so its not featured :)

** For those of you keeping track, we have spent $32.00, however with different padding, it can be done MUCH cheaper. **

Next was the fun part! I turned it over and primered it! Just a small coat, nothing too big.

After letting the primer dry it was REALLY time for the fun part. BLUE! I took it slow and easy (not easy for me, quick and efficant is always my style) as I didn't want to miss anything. I didn't worry about the top or the inside, people weren't going to see the inside of the soon to be bench and they weren't going to see the top either!

** Note- Remember to flip your piece over if it has grooves on the legs to ensure you have covered every section of it with paint! **

YES! Paint is dry, time to apply padding! I measured out my padding so it was perfectly aligned. (I am somewhat of a perfectionist)

In order to ensure that my padding wasn't going to be going anywhere while I was trying to staple, I used a hot glue gun and just zig-zagged some right on the table! The foam took to it with absolutly no problems!

I layed my fabric out on the floor, right side down, and placed my table right in the middle of where it needed to be. A couple inches extra on the sides does wonders when your trying to stretch it to make sure it lookes beautiful! After pulling a section snug, I went ahead a stapled!

The staples don't look all the way in, but after I did a row, I used my little finishing hammer to ensure they were all flush with the board.

After roughly 300 staples and a few ugly looking removed ones, (hey, I said I was a perfectionist... not perfect!) I used a hot glue gun, again, all along the seams so that it wouldn't fray, and gave it a little more support to the wood.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST! FLIP IT OVER! TA-DA! Fairly easy project and it makes it so much sweeter when its "useless to useful" :)