The Nifty Thrifty Family

Guest Bloggers Wanted for Grilling 101

Hot weather is around the corner. Soon if not already outside get togethers and cooking on the grill will be in full swing. Ladies the grill does not completely belong to a man. I love cooking on the grill. At out house cooking on the grill is a tag team. Don't let the grill scare you. My husband and I both want to learn how to better our cooking outside on the grill. Cooking outside on the grill is not limited to cooking on meats, there is so many other things you can cook.
The only way for us to learn how to cook awesome on the grill is for us to practice and find recipes that have good instruction. I want to make our meals go from mediocre to wow. Starting in June I am wanting to do a series on grilling that will hopefully post every Monday thru the summer months. I would love to have guest bloggers who would like to share tips on grilling and grilling recipes. If you would like to share and be a guest please let me know and I will set you a date. The day your post runs you will have advertisement on all of the Nifty Thrifty Family Media Sites and your post link will be placed at the end of all posts relating to grilling during the series.
If you can’t wait until June you can check out the Nifty Thrifty Family Grilling board on Pinterest to get some great recipes. You can even guest post about trying one of the recipes.

Snickerdoodle Sunday

Hello lovely people! Welcome back to Snickerdoodle Sunday!! The most fun and delicious party in the world! Really :) You guys always link up such awesome posts that it is hard to choose a feature! Keep up the great work!

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A lot going on this week so let's get to it! First off we have a special co-host this week - please welcome Felicia from Nifty Thrifty Family! We are so excited to have her join us this week!

A bit about Felicia: I am very excited to be co- hosting today, I am looking forward to getting to know everyone and checking out all the different links. As for myself, I am a mother to two wonderful little ones, that keep me very busy. Between school pick ups, working 40 hrs, dance and gymnastics, I love to provide honest reviews of recipes and products, sharing DIY projects and life happenings.

You can follow her here: Blog/FB/Pin/Tweet/G+/Instagram

And Dee from Meatloaf and Melodrama is returning this week too! She has so much fun visiting with everyone! She even brought a snack to share!

Now to this his weeks Super Special Featured Cohost: Emily from Our House, Now a Home! Please give her a warm welcome!

Dee, our special cohost from last week, fell in love with Emily's Coastal Gallery Wall

So lovely and beautiful so I can see why Dee picked it! Follow Emily @ Blog/Pin/Tweet/FB/G+ Some other great posts of Emily's to check out:

Meet the family in her Mother's Day Post, DIY Tray Recycle and a Wicker Chair Tutorial

Congrats Emily!! Here is your super special button!

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Just a few Rules

**Please DO NOT link and run…Yes we mean YOU….please visit, comment and pin on a few of the blogs that are sharing here today. Visit at least as many posts as you linked up! This is a great way to get people to visit you and everyone’s blogs will benefit!

Remember to Follow Your hostesses- 2 Crochet Hooks, Nifty Thrifty Family, Meatloaf and Melodrama and Our House, Now a Home
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Tooth Pillow

To children the Tooth Fairy ranks right up there with Santa and the Easter Bunny. The magic of a fairy who brings money and candy can make some children scared. My oldest child is afraid of all magical characters. We always have to promise that we will leave a note for the magical character letting them know that they are not allowed to come into her room. When my daughters first tooth became loose I knew the whole placing the tooth under the pillow might not be a good idea. So with the help of my Mom we created a tooth pillow that my daughter could hang on her bedroom door.

Making the pillow was so easy. You make it the way you want to make it. Don't worry if you don't have a sewing machine, you can sew it by hand. We found it was easier and faster to sew it by hand.

To make the pillow that is pictured above you will need the following items:

Pink felt
Black felt

White felt

2 buttons

Ribbon

Silver sequences

Stuffing

Pink pipe cleaner

To start you need to draw a tooth pattern. On the pattern draw a pocket. Once you are happy with the shape of the tooth and pocket, cut the pattern using the white felt. You need to cut two tooth shapes one for the front and one for the back.

On the extra piece of white felt cut out a pocket. In the middle of the pocket piece make a slit for the smile. Add pink felt behind the open slit. Add the button for the eyes. Then sew the pocket on the piece of felt you are going to use for the front. Once you have the eyes, pocket and mouth sewn onto the front, then sew the two pieces of the tooth together, place the stuffing in the tooth and completely seal the tooth up. After the pillow is sewed up add anything extra you want to add. This is when we added the wings, string and skirt.

At our house the Tooth Fairy brings golden chocolate coins and one dollar for each year of age. The chocolate golden coins and dollars fit just perfect in the pocket. A word of advise, I would place the tooth in a plastic baggie in the pillow. It just makes it easier for the Tooth Fairy to find the tooth and exchange it for money.

I would love to see the tooth pillow you design. Please send me a picture of yours. Have fun making your own personal tooth pillow.

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