Owl Pretzels

My roommate and I wanted to make something one night and we found this idea on Pinterest. 

This was the original idea from Pinterest. 

So we made them and we changed a few things. I like the way ours turned out better. Sorry, Pinterest. Ours have so much more personality. 

Aren't they cute?

What we used:

• Medium sized pretzels
• White chocolate
• Oreo's
• Chocolate chips
• Chocolate covered pomegranates cut in half (for nose)
• Chocolate licorice (which doesn't taste great, but tastes better with all the chocolate on the owl than black licorice would)
• A 5 part sprinkle container (this was great because we didn't have to buy two separate things for the toes and the fur. We used the long skinny sprinkles for the toes and the tiny sprinkles for the fur)

How we made them:

1. Dip the pretzels in white chocolate (p.s.-it is much more difficult to melt white chocolate than milk or dark chocolate. If the white chocolate gets to stiff, add oil until it's a good consistency.)
2. Split the Oreo's in half and place them on the pretzel as shown in the picture. 
3. Add the nose and toes as shown in picture. 
4. Put some white chocolate in a baggie, clip a corner, and squeeze a medium sized dab in the center of the Oreo's and add  chocolate chip eyes and licorice eyebrows.
•  This is the fun part because you can place the eyes and eyebrows in different directions to get different personalities. 
5. Let them dry and you are good to go! They taste delicious! (P.S.-In case you couldn't figure it out already, these are not healthy at all!)

These guys were my favorite. 

 These are so fun to make because you can make them have so much personality. 

Fall Leaf Picture

I went hiking up in Logan Canyon and found some tye-dye looking leaves. I couldn't just 'leaf' them there, so I took them home figuring there was something I could do with them. 

I thought it was cool that I found various sizes of the tye-dye leaves. So, I brainstormed what I could do with them and this is what I came up with! 

First, I preserved the leaves by ironing them with wax paper. 

Then, I found a frame at the thrift store and painted the frame black. 

After that, I just designed the background experimenting with different colors of paper. 

I thought the frame looked a little plain, so I used a sponge to add some color. 

Then, I glued letters from an old scrabble game onto the outside of the frame. 

I think it turned out very well! 

I also found this leaf while hiking. I thought it was so cute because I has a heart on it. So, I preserved it using wax paper and found the perfect frame at a thrift store to display it.