Halfway Homemade Pizza!

Who doesn't love pizza? That's right, nobody.  Kaeley and I had our friend Cat over and made some amazing pizzas.  We bought the dough because A) we were lazy, and B) we were so hungry we couldn't have enough patience to make it ourselves.

We had three pizzas in the end.

The top: mushroom and pepper, the middle: bacon, spinach, avocado, and the bottom: BBQ chicken, onion and bacon.

We used our crockpot to cook chicken strips in BBQ sauce while Kaeley prepared the bacon, onions and sauces.

Then we chopped up all of our toppings and tried to stretch out the pizza dough, which isn't as easy as people who work in pizza places make it look.

We used regular tomato sauce on the veggie pizzas but used BBQ sauce as the base for our BBQ chicken pizza.  They take about 10 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees.  My favorite was the spinach avocado and the BBQ chicken pizza.  Definitely making more of these in the near future!

DIY Party: Wall Decor

I have always been obsessed with fun backgrounds for photos.  It's always fun to be able to take pictures at parties and have something pretty or exciting behind you instead of someone's backyard, right?  Enjoy the compilation I've put together and please share some of your own ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Wee Birdy has a very cute and very simple (READ: easy) idea with this giant wall confetti!

Now, this picture from Oh Joy! didn't seem to have any instructions with it, but I love this idea!  If you take streamers or ribbons or whatever you would like for the background and sandwich the tops of the strands between two pieces of tape, you would easily be able to hang it on a wall or between two posts.

Oh Happy Day had a cute idea for a circle photo booth backdrop, which is absolutely adorable.  However, to make it a little less complicated, you could swap out the sewing machine and just tape the insides of the circles to the thread.

For holiday times, I love string lights as a backdrop in pictures.  Instructables has a neat How To to make the lights diffused and less glaring by covering the little bulbs with ping pong balls!

Speaking of string lights, I have been absolutely in love with this idea since I first saw it on Pinterest.  I have a sincere love for canvas, which is how we plan to decorate most of the rooms in our home once everything gets settled.  Apartment Therapy combines those two things (lights and canvas) with some stickers and spray paint and showcased some absolutely lovely wall art.  I can just imagine the huge ones as cute summer night backdrops or, if you use snowflakes, Christmas party/card backgrounds!

I hope you liked some of these!  Please let me know what you think in the comments below and share your ideas!

DIY Party: Games

Hello again!  Welcome to part two of five of the DIY Party series!  Today's topic is DIY party games.  I have found two that I really love (however they're both drinking games, so no kids allowed!)

1)  Battleshots

The Pinterest link took me to this site, which is all in Polish.  However, the concept of the game is pretty self explanatory, especially if you've ever played the ever-popular Battleship.

These two took pizza boxes and drew two grids, one on the inside of the top and one on the inside of the bottom.  You place your shot glasses into the grid as you would with your three ships in the original game (one - two spaces ship, one - three spaces ship, and one - four spaces ship).  The other person does the same with their board and then you take turns guessing where the other's ships may be.  If they call a spot with a shot glass on it, take the shot.

2) Shot Roulette

Here we have another game of shots, but this one is a little more dangerous.  Everyone who takes a turn takes a shot, the problem is you may not know what it is until after you have it in your mouth.

If you have any suggestions for more DIY Party ideas or games, please tell us about them in the comments below!

DIY Party: Centerpiece Ideas

Hey everyone!  Welcome to the first installment of the DIY Party series!  This is going to be five sections of DIY party ideas that I have found (and love!) through Pinterest and I cannot wait to start using them!

First off, I found possibly the cutest way to recycle cans from tomatoes or canned fruits.

All you have to do is clean out the can, cover with funky duct tape (which come in a thousand patterns and colors now) and add a ribbon.  So cute and simple, I can't believe I hadn't though of it before now.

Next, from Smart School House, I found this adorable and incredibly easy way to have flower lights be a part of the table without the real-life flames and fire hazard.

Here, I found a great fall centerpiece. Yes, I've already got my mind on fall, but when don't I?  I absolutely love this idea and I tried it last year with my preschool class but my hair dryer is cheap and didn't get hot enough so I'm determined to try again (and succeed) this year.

Finally, I saw this really cute idea on Pinterest, but the source was just the picture itself.  The idea is to have a styrofoam ball and a large candle holder.  Candle holders generally have a spike that goes through the bottom of the candle, which you will need to poke through the bottom of the styrofoam ball.  Then, poke the sticks of as many lollipops as you can fit into the styrofoam to make this cute little "Sucker Ball".

Thanks for stopping by!  Next DIY is party games!