Chocolate Covered Strawberry {Cake Pops }

Im sure if you did a quick internet search you would find DOZENS upon dozens of tutorials on Cake Pops

and trust me.... 

there are some CUTE ones out there.

But heres how Ive been doing mine... A quick easy method 

What You'll Need
{{This tutorial is for chocolate covered strawberry pops - the possibilities are ENDLESS on your flavor choice}}
Strawberry Cake Mix (and ingredients listed on box for regular cake directions)
Strawberry Frosting
Chocolate Candy Melts
Lollipop Sticks


Styrofoam
Wax Paper or Parchment Paper

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I know

I'm late jumping on this wagon...

In all fairness, 

I set up the page awhile ago and just didn't do a thing with it from then on out......

SOOOOOOO

photo from Pinterest - Follow me Here

Its there now!

Look to the right, down... down.... There it is!! 

"Like" FabuLESSly Crafty to follow me along there too :)

Come on, you know you wanna....

Courtesy of the Red White and Blue....

Ive been busy getting patriotic pieces together, even though they will only be up another week or so 

Last time I showed ya my super cute stars for the dining table centepiece

Now its time for my Front Entry!

I found this Berry Wreath at a yardsale for $2 bucks a few weeks ago and my intentions were to spray paint it white... I can still do that later ;)

Next I wanting a MINI bunting across {{ Thanks for the idea Christine! }} 

but I wanted it to be sturdier than just paper on its own....

SOOOOO

See where I'm going here?

I couldn't find Pre-Cut chipboard pennants small enough, so I used the points of small stars instead

Then, I spent too much time cutting out individual triangles for them

{{ If I were SMART I woulda cut them with my Silhouette... My "duh!" moment once I was finished }}

strung with Embroidery Floss then tied to the wreath...

While I was Mod-Podging my Table Stars I did this larger one as well

and saved one of the chipboard stars whole to layer on top

Wired it to the wreath

and hung with some Navy Blue ribbon!

I like it!

and I really like that it was Under $5 Bucks....FabuLESS!!!!




hmmmmm.... after playing in Photoshop... im more convinced than ever to paint my Door and Trim Charcoal Gray..... My wreaths would look do much better against it!!

I know Mr. FabuLESS reads this, so
SEE HONEY!!!
IT WILL LOOK BETTER!!!

Now time to get the front bench festive too!

Seeing Stars

While at a wedding this weekend, I was reminded how QUICKLY the

is approaching us

I still have my cute spring setup on my Dining Table and Front Door

{{ so what a good excuse to change it up! }}

So today was a long-overdue project day....

Me and my Littlest best friend hit Craft Warehouse and I got some super cute supplies

and left with an idea in my head

Wanna See what I did??

Showed you how to check it, but for those who arent Pinners Yet....

 I thought I would share the world of Pinterest with you... just in case you aren't on board already

Pay attention, Friends!

So assuming after my post last night - you're thinking, 'What is Pinterest?'

Well, friends... Here ya go... the days off dog-earing Home and Garden magazines and saving photos from online to big albums in your pc photo albums is in the past!

Imagine a place that allows you to "dog ear" pictures of things you find on the internet.... anywhere on the internet, and organize it into categories onto your own little website of sorts. Then you have one easy place to look back at all these wonderful things -- and the images are linked to the site where you found them

 My first thought upon hearing of it......

Isn't this just like bookmarking a page? well, kind of.... but so much easier! Everything you pin is in neat folders {you create} all in one spot! AND you can see what your friends are pinning, follow them or even tag them in pins so they are sure to see them...Fun, right!?
I just got going, so there isnt TONS on my boards yet, but Your welcome to follow along if you would like

Fabu Craft on Pinterest

Pinterest is so addicting and fun {{ and free }}!

And talk about Inspiring!!
You do need to be invited to participate, so if you'd like an invite, shoot me an email and I'll get ya going!

or email fabulesslycrafty@gmail .com

Im being Pinned.... Are you!?

So Following A Turtles Life for Me's post this evening about being curious if she had been "Pinned"

I had to check mine and see whats been pinned too!

I've been a Pinterest user for awhile now... but only got busy pinning recently

{{ Wanna follow me? Visit Here }}

I know your curious now about your own, aren't you!!??

Want to see what pictures from your blog have been pinned, and the captions that people saved your photos with??

Enter this

http://pinterest.com/source/fabulesslycrafty.com/

into your URL bar.... {just replace my name with yours}

Have Fun!

P.S.....
Sitting there wondering what Pinterest is??
Check out my post about it here

Monday Lister-oo..... To-Do, or NOT to do...

That is the question

It's already Monday again, 

with not much posting in between -  

I know.... Sorry!!

Ill make up for it, I promise

So, even though I have yet to post my Sunday Check-off from last week

{its comin... just no time this weekend}

Heres This Weeks Checklist

1.

PAINT THE FRICKIN FIREPLACE

and all the trim around it.

{obviously that did not get checked off last week

2.

Help Baby T Finish Daddy's Present

3.

Re-design a new Vinyl Tree for Ty's room....

4.

Finish sewing the dozen or so "BabyLegs" that are cut and ready to go...

5.

Get invitations perfected and ordered for my sisters Sweet Sixteen

love, your slacking blogger,

Love this Blog - Check out her latest giveaway!

I stumbled in Simply Designing through the Expressions Vinyl webpage

{as mentioned before, this is where I buy most all my vinyl.... they are awesome ;) }

Well, she is having a great giveaway for a $25 for EXPRESSIONS!

{ She also has a great linky party going on too if you want to link up!}

~Be sure to let her know I sent ya!

Consider this my Match.....

After all this traveling this last couple months, Ive been feeling

SERIOUSLY

UNMOTIVATED

to do anything.... at all.

So this is my plan to light a fire under my rear.

Every Monday ~ Ill post my "To-Do's" for the week 

&

Every Sunday - We will see how that pans out.... 

To Do - or NOT to do.... THAT is the question.

1. 

Take down Curtains in Living Room, and re-hang

{this time with drywall anchors, and the screws are getting loose, I got scolded this AM}

2.

Clean back patio and patio set

3.

Finish painting around my BIG FIREPLACE MAKEOVER PROJECT

{oh yes, that was months ago... Nope, haven't finished painting it yet}

4.

While the paint is out from the fireplace ~ Paint trim in Hallway and Entryway where touchup is needed.

5.

RE-Organize my mess of a pantry

{oh if only my pantry was as cute as Shelley of House of Smith's!}

{{ on second though, consider that my inspiration! }}

Figured Ill keep it to 5, that will not make me feel overwhelmed...
Hmm.... Maybe putting this out there will FORCE me to do...

Have you Made yours YOUR OWN?

I liked the Flourish I used in making Baby T's Beach Tote so much.....

I decided it would be perfect on something for me too

I see her everyday, use her most days - why shouldnt she look pretty??

I think she deserves it ;)

Have you made your Silhouette/Cutter your own??

Miss my post about the DollarTree Tote?

Visit Here

Dollar Store Beach Tote

THE DAY BEFORE our trip to So Cal

I hit Dollar Tree to look for some cute zippered bags to put bathroom things in so I wouldnt make a mess out of our luggage... 

Oh yah, I said day before

because I PROCRASTINATE like that

{we've talked about this before}

... Anyways~ ended up finding some bags perfect for that intention as well as a few tote bags that would be great for the beach!

(I didn't even THINK of bringing beach bags...good thing I went!)

Of course I couldn't taken them along anywhere looking so PLAIN!

So It was time for a little LAST minute FabuLESS {ness}

You'll need a blank, cute start

and some of this

and this

and an iron

Ready Set... GO

Back Again....

Seems Ive been gone a lot between our two family vacations this year, and trying to get caught up.

Im now officially home, back into our old schedule with nothing else crazy planned. 

We had a fabulous last couple weeks with some family friends in California - Theme parking it up.

I am Definitly glad to be home in my own bed, NOT living out of a suitcase. 

We did Disney again, Sandiego Zoo and Safari Park, and Legoland and the Sealife Aquarium in Carlsbad

Got to try out the cute little 'Mouse Ear Clip' I made for Sissy - and she got compliments on them left and right!

Missed how I made them? Take a look here!

 AnyHOO

 I hope to get back into the swing of Fabuless Things very soon....