Grilled Salmon on our DIY recycled grill.

This weekend Dave found an old grill top out in the woods near our house, and after some major scrubbing we decided to put it to good use. He took a bunch of bricks that were stacked up behind the house and built a homemade/recycled grill. Last night he grilled our salmon out there and it was by far the best salmon he's made yet...

Even if you don't happen to have an old grill top this could be an easy/cheap project to make your grill look a lot nicer in your backyard. Just grab one of those little $20 grills (Walmart even has a $10 grill), build up your bricks however you want, and set the grill on top/inside.

It looks great in the backyard! I'll post a better pic on instagram today that will show it from the side so you can see how tall it is.

DIY Recipe cards.

This is for those of you that are like me and love to find amazing recipes in magazines. I always rip them all out and then they go in a folder never to be seen again. Not anymore!

These cards are so simple, yet a beautiful way to display the recipes you've found. I am a very visual person, so I usually don't make recipes unless I can see what the end product looks like first. These are perfect for that...

What you'll need~

a stack of unlined 4x6 note cards (and a few lined)

 magazines (or pages you've ripped out from them)

double sided tape (photo safe kind so it doesn't age the magazines)

scissors

pen

First trace the picture of the recipe and cut it out.

Cut out the ingredients/directions and tape them on one side of the note card.

Tape the picture of the food on the other side. If the directions won't all fit on one side of the card, you can just tape the rest of it on top of the picture side. Use the few lined note cards you have to write down recipes that just won't fit on the card when you cut it out.

Voila! Admire you're pretty new recipe cards...

These cards are so easy, although a little time consuming if you've gathered as many recipes as I have. But from now on it will be easy for me to add more! Now I just need a pretty recipe box for them to go in...

Christmas DIY

I found this cute idea on Pinterest. Since Dave's favorite beer is Guinness I've had this pinned for months to remind me to try it as a Christmas present. Last night I let him open these reindeer beer as an early gift, he loved them! Dave said his Guinness never tasted so good :)

To make them I pulled off the Guinness label. Hot glued two eyes and a fuzzy nose. For the antlers I wraped one brown pipe cleaner around the top and twisted it in back until it stayed. Then I cut another brown pipe cleaner into thirds and used two of those pieces to wrap around each side. 

So easy and ridiculously cute!