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Pin For the Wednesdays – 25 Ways to tie a scarf

My winning pin for this week might be my favorite pin so far, ever.  You know, in the whole month that I’ve been on Pinterest!  But it’s a really good one, from Wendy’s LookBook, 25 ways to tie a scarf.  My original pin is here, it’s a 5-minute video tutorial of 25 different scarf-ties and it’s awesome! Since I’ve pinned it, I’ve done 4 or 5 new ties!  And I wear a scarf several times a week, so I really needed some fresh looks for mine.  Here are a couple of my favorites!

The Braid:

and the Magic Trick:

 

Pinterest, through Wendy, you’ve opened up a whole new world to me!
Ok, so that’s my winning pin. 25, count ’em 25 ways to wear a scarf!!

Please share your favorite Pinterest wins with us!  Link up below!

There are just a couple of rules:

1) In your post, please link to your original source  – the pin you got the idea from.

2) Make sure and link back to our original Pin For the Wednesdays Post here at Mommin’ It Up!

3) In the Mr. Linky below, leave a direct link to your Pin FTWednesdays post, not to your main website.

4) Totally optional – grab our cute #PinFTW button!  The code box is over there in our sidebar ————————–>

Ok, get linking! Can’t wait to see what pins you’ve tried this week and how they worked out!
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Pin FTW – Chicken Enchilada Soup

Welcome to week two of Pin for the Wednesdays! We were so excited by your participation in last week’s carnival, and we’re hoping that even more of you will participate this week!

Most of my Pinterest Wins have been with recipes – I love finding new recipe ideas there. (Are you following my Food and Drinks board? It’s full of pretty cocktails and cupcakes!) I think Pinterest is extremely handy for cooking… It’s my personal, digital cookbook.

This week I tried this recipe for Crock Pot Chicken Enchilada Soup from one of my favorite cooking sites, SkinnyTaste.com. The recipe wasn’t hard, but it did require a bit of preparation (this time I followed directions, don’t worry) – basically you make the enchilada sauce before throwing it in the crock pot. Despite the fact that I’d never made this particular recipe before, it sounded so delicious that I went ahead and made a double batch. I wanted to ensure leftovers!

Here’s the finished product:

It. Was. Delicious. My husband deemed it the best thing I’ve ever made, and my kids loved it too. It’s a nutritious, low-calorie, delicious meal that our whole family loved – I’d say that’s a Pinterest Win!

So, what have you been up to this week? We’d love for you to link up with your Pinterest Wins!

There are just a couple of rules:

1) In your post, please link to your original source  – the pin you got the idea from.

2) Make sure and link back to our original Pin For the Wednesdays Post here at Mommin’ It Up!

3) In the Mr. Linky below, leave a direct link to your Pin FTWednesdays post, not to your main website.

4) Totally optional – grab our cute #PinFTW button!  The code box is over there in our sidebar ————————–>

Thank you!!!

No blog? That’s ok! Leave a comment with your Pinterest Win.

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Easy Pokemon Cupcakes

After nearly FIVE YEARS of blogging, Emily and I have finally decided to start a carnival!  You’re welcome.  This is it, baby!  We’ve got a great carnival you are going to love – one where each Wednesday we link up with posts about our favorite Pinterest find that we ACTUALLY TRIED – and that came out GREAT!  Whether you copied the pin exactly or put your own twist on it, we want to hear about it!

And we’re not too proud to beg, so please please please please PRETTY PLEASE pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease join us each Wednesday to showcase your pins that were a win.  It’s…Pin For The Wednesdays!  (FTW, yo!)

There are just a couple of rules:

1) In your post, please link to your original source  – the pin you got the idea from.

2) Make sure and link back to our original Pin For the Wednesdays Post here at Mommin’ It Up!

3) In the Mr. Linky below, leave a direct link to your Pin FTWednesdays post, not to your main website.

4) Totally optional – grab our cute #PinFTW button!  The code box is over there in our sidebar —————————>

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I’m going to get things started off this week by showing you what happened when I made those Pokemon cupcakes I found in this pin (see how I just linked to my original source!):

I loved the idea, but I H-A-T-E coloring frosting with food coloring. I always stain my fingers and about half my kitchen counter and in this case with the red food coloring the mess often resembles something gory, so I decided to take the photo as my inspiration but make this idea into reality a different way. Here’s how mine turned out:

 

 

And here’s how I did it!
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Joshua loved these cupcakes and so did his friends. And they were very easy to decorate. Even at midnight (I was up at midnight as predicted!)

Ok, who’s ready to show us their winning pins???  Join in the fun!  If you’ve got a post showcasing a great pin that WORKED, link up, even if your post isn’t from today!  Pleasepleaseplease help us get Pin For The Wednesdays off to a great start, and don’t forget to come back EVERY Wednesday to link up!  If you don’t have a post today, please leave me a comment telling me how brilliant my cupcakes turned out, in order to further boost my always-fragile self-esteem, k?

*update* Emily and I have decided to BRIBE you to participate this week!  If you link up by Friday, March 2 at 11:59 pm, you will be entered to win a $25 Lands’ End gift card from Emily & me!  So get LINKING!! 🙂

(I’m also linking this up to Pin Me! at CraftyMamaof4 so I can share my Pokemon cupcake success!)

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