It's Complete PINSANITY!

I've been talking to my mom about how much I love Pinterest and all the amazing things I want to craft.  Thank goodness she was coming for a visit because she is the one who bridges the gap between what I can imagine and what I can do (and by what I can do I mean what I sit and watch her do). She puts the 'C' in crafty.  I finally talked her into joining the site and even got her super excited about spending her weekend here crafting.  We have been talking about it so much that we pinned the weekend Pinsanity.  Steve rolls his eyes whenever we mention our crafting (which is about every 4-5 minutes) we've concluded he's dis-pinterested.  

We have a first here on Bergman's Bruisers--a guest blogger!  My mom,  Polly, or G-Jo as three little boys know her.  She is going to take over giving the reviews of the Pinterest crafts we've done so far.  Was it Pinpressive? Did it need a Pintervention?  Are the results Pinconclusive? Or was it completely Pinadequate? 

Hi to all of Greta's Blogging followers.  I'll jump right in and say that a wooden spoon over a pan of boiling pasta to prevent the pot from boiling over: Pinconclusive.  At first it was Pincouraging: no spill-overs as the water boiled to just the top of the pan.  But then we had to test the Pinterest trick so we took the spoon off the pan.  It wasn't long before it began to boil over.  Pinpressive, we thought.  So to further test the trick, we added the spoon back on the pan.  We expected the water to suddenly stop boiling over.....but it continued to drip onto the stove.  Pinconclusive.

Low-Cal Chicken in White Wine Sauce: Pinpressive!  Easy to make and very tasty.  

Make your own laundry soap. Pinterest claims this is the BEST laundry detergent EVER!  For twenty dollars you can make enough laundry detergent to last nine months AND your clothes will be cleaner and smell better than ever.  We set out early Friday morning to locate the above ingredients.  

Pinterest said the ingredients could be purchased at any grocery or department store.  Bi Lo was our first stop.  We quickly located OxiClean, baking soda and Borax.  However, searching each shelf and the entire laundry isle failed to find Arm and Hammer Laundry Soda or Fels-Naptha bar soap.  Greta scanned Pinterest on her iPhone for details and discovered that Fels-Naptha could be found at Home Depot.  We headed to Home Depot. 

After searching the cleaning isle of Home Depot, no Fels-Naptha or A & H Laundry Soda were found.  Greta, holding Cannon in one hand and her Iphone in the other, knew a Pintervention was needed; so she approached the Orange-aproned sales clerk who let us know that we could find the Fels-Naptha at a specific Walmart about nine miles away.  Pincouraged once again, back to the car we went.  

Still with me?  We've been to two stores and headed to a third....did I mention it's Pinsanity weekend?  Say what you like about Walmart, but with only 15 minutes left before we had to pick up Gavin, we rushed into Walmart expecting to Pindrop the whole laundry soap idea.  To our amazement we found ALL five ingredients for the laundry soap lined up right next to each other.....Pintastic!!!!! We were back in the car and headed towards Gavin's school in less than seven minutes.

 Grating three bars of Fels-Naptha was a mighty chore.  However, watching Steve grab a handful and dropping it into his mouth thinking it was an aged specialty cheese was SOOO worth the grating chore! 

The ingredients were mixed together in a five-gallon bucket.  Decision: Pincouraging.  The real test will be three boys' dirty laundry.  We'll keep you Pinformed.

Though Steve declared Dis-pinterest, his Philly-Cheese Sandwich was Pincredible!

What happens when you add baking soda and peroxide to Mountain Dew?  According to Pinterest, it glows in the dark. A fun night activity for little boys, we thought.

According to Greta and me: Pinaccurate. There was no glow, not even a spark.  I should probably mention that we used Diet Mountain Dew. 

This idea had Greta and I the MOST Pincouraged!  According to Pinterest, you are suppose to cut the top of a Gaterade bottle and slide a package of, say, chocolate chips, through the top and then "seal" it with the cap.

We didn't have a Gaterade bottle, but we had a pico de gallo jar.  This is my absolute favorite Pinterest so far.  I give it a Pintelligent triple-thumbs up!

It wasn't an entirely Pinsanity day.  We went to Furman University and fed the ducks.  This is always a crowd-pleaser amongst the under-seven age group.  You can't really see him, but off in the distance is a lone duck paddling as fast as his webbed-feet can to make it to the duck-feeding frenzy.  We patiently waited and saved several slices just for him.

It was an amazing day, filled with so many Pincredible things, but there is nothing better than three grandkids cuddling.....Pindescribable!

  You can click on the Pinterest tab and check out all the pins to get recipes and crafts!  Just sit on you hands and contain yourself already, more reviews will be coming soon!

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