Easter was a success! I made 2 Pinterest inspired recipes and there was tons of food.

Here's what I made:





Millionaire Pie

This pie is fantastic! I used this recipe and it didn't disappoint. Because I am the laziest food preparer ever, instead of freezing the pie with half the whipped topping and adding the other half on top, I just dumped all of the whipped topping in the mix. I did have some leftover mixture, but it's fantastic without the crust too. I guess this isn't an authentic Millionaire Pie, but it was fantastic.



Sherbet Church Punch

Because we are the most impatient family in existence, my dad actually made the punch. Since I was making the Millionaire Pie at the time, I didn't have time to look at the recipe and left him in charge of the punch. Now, my dad is the father of trashing up recipes. When left to his own devices, he trashes up every single recipe he can get his hands on! At my cousin's graduation party a few years ago, he was left in charge of the grill for several minutes and every spice that was hanging out beside the grill made its way onto the hamburgers! His recipes surprisingly always turn out awesome, if flavor is your jam. Anyway, my dad trashed up this punch to the point where I was freaking out, but it still ended up tasting awesome. I'll share the recipe soon.

I'm addicted to painting sewing tables!



I picked up three (!) of them at our local Habitat For Humanity ReStore and painted them with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint®

Painted with Emperor's Silk





Painted with Provence




Painted with Napoleonic Blue



My grandma has a sewing table in her basement that I'm going to get and paint English Yellow for my mom. I can only have so many sewing tables in my own house!

Aaand we have a staircase! This project was actually completed in December but I just never posted it.

Here are the progress pictures:

How the stairs looked when we took possession:



Still there after we removed the drywall:


The spiral staircase is finally gone! When we removed it we found out it was only secured by two tiny bolts!:


Getting ready for the new staircase. We also flipped the basement stairs so they lead down from the kitchen instead of by the door:


The plan was to bring the stairs down the wall as far as we could and then add a landing to bring them out the rest of the way. We quickly found out that we didn't have enough space to bring them down the wall. Between the door on the side of the house and the door behind the basement, adding stairs there would have been impossible. So we did the only thing we could do:


We built a staircase in the middle of the room. You should have been there for that conversation! The truth is, everyone hates that the stairs had to be in the center of the living room, but that was the only way it could have been done.  At least it's a pretty staircase:




This was one of those things that didn't quite turn out as we hoped, but we made the best of a bad situation.

Also, can we talk about how the broom keeps photobombing?!

I've reached 1,000 pins! To say I'm addicted to Pinterest would be an understatement. I still feel like a newbie, though!

Here are some of my favorite boards:

Drinks
I really need to separate this board into 2 boards: alcoholic & nonalcoholic. Right now, it's everything drinks.

Slow Cooker Recipes
I've featured this board before in my 100+ Slow Cooker Recipe roundup. Since then, it's grown to over 170 recipes.

Kitchen Ideas
We've finally narrowed down our kitchen plan, but I love dreaming up ideas for kitchens!

Desserts
I can't wait to make these desserts in our new kitchen!

If you like what you see, follow along with me on Pinterest!