Valentine's Pinterest Party!

I'm excited to post about another holiday themed Pinterest party. So very fun! I kept things simple this time and while there was not tons of food to eat or swag bags, it was a lot less stressful for sure.

My sister Laura brought a delicious cake

Lindsay brought pineapple cut in to the shape of hearts. So cute & perfect for the party!

Amberly brought glazed donuts and Tony made us a DiGiornio pizza and I got some Valentine taffy

Plate full of yummy treats!

On to the crafts we made!

Farkle is the game Lindsay brought for us to make.

- baby food jars

- game instructions

- dice

- duct tape ( to decorate jars ) 

- washi tape (this was used too )

I think they turned out so cute!

Ta-Da! The Cricut Explore made an appearance at the party too! Super lucky to have that happen! This is the newest cutting machine from Cricut and it's not out until mid-March to the public. Super cant wait to get mine!

We made these cute heart ornaments with the Cricut

Last but not least, we made these bottle cap magnets. I got the stickers at Hobby Lobby and the clear bubble stickers that go on top as well. There are magnets on the back and the bottle caps too , all came from Hobby Lobby! I did go to Michaels but they did not have a good selection of this type of thing at all. Pretty disappointing. Check out Hobby Lobby if you want to make jewelry or do crafts with these bottle caps because they have all the supplies and lots of colors to choose from!

Looking forward to doing another Pinterest party again soon. 

What project have you made (or posted) on Pinterest lately? 

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Tmobile Holiday Party

Thanks to House of Smiths (I think Shelly hates me now,agh...more on that at the end) , I found out about this event at the Tmobile store at the mall close to where we live, just a few hours before it happened. Tony wasn't going to go with me, but at the last minute decided he would.

Lots of yummy food and drinks for us to enjoy!

 

 After signing up for a Tmobile plan (since being in contract is a lot cheaper than being out of it like Tony and I have been doing for the past 7 months), we participated in trivia questions with the Tmobile employees. Above is a group (Shelly is with the blonde hair and black and white jacket), answering questions. Every time you got one right, you wrote your name down on 1/2 of an index card and they were going to draw 5 names and those people would win free phones!

 The closer and closer it got to 9pm the more anxious I was to find out if mine or Tony's name would be chosen. There were probably...30-40 people at the event.

 Getting ready to draw the names...

 Tony won a phone! His name got picked 2nd! He could pick the Mytouch LG 4g or the Slide. He picked the Slide. A photographer there got nice individual pictures of those who won the phones but I dont know where those pictures are posted yet!

 In fact, we BOTH picked the Slide because my name got drawn next. WOOHOO we were floating on cloud 9. After winning, the event was over, I met Shelly on the way out and I think she was a bit jealous that Tony & I both had won phones. I was disappointed because I really admire her and all she does with her blog, her family and just her life in general. I would probably feel the same way though towards meeting someone for the first time who had won something I had wanted to win. Darn it! Ultimate fail for the situation but super WIN for Tony & I ...we were so stoked to have gotten our names called and Tony was so happy he had come along with me after all.

 Tony's phone which he ended up selling since he likes his HD2. I still have mine, am debating what to do with it because it doesnt look like I can put MIUI (Android system) on it but it would be really nice to have a backup in case anything happened to my current phone. So for now, I'm hanging on to it. Tony's was all black. Mine has a black front and white back.

Our bag of swag from the evening! A flying noise making monkey - so funny. A really nice water bottle, 5 hour energy drink, a travel size bottle of ibuprofen, hand sanitizer from Bath and Body Works + holiday shopping tips. SO SO nice!