Halloween 2010!

Josh and I were having a hard time decided what to be for Halloween this year, but Josh's sister invited us to a 1920's theme murder mystery party the Friday before Halloween, So we decided that I would make a flapper-ish dress for me and Josh would be a 1920's mobster, this gave him the excuse to buy a holster he has been wanting for a long time (he did get a great deal on it).

The party was so much fun my sister in law did an awesome job putting it all together. I was Mary Toosteal and Josh was Congressman Darrin Toosteal, well at is who his second character was. He was the original victim "Big Jim". Josh got killed twice during the party, I actually paid someone to kill him the 2nd time :)

Check out all the pictures here

On Saturday we got together with my family. We went to Collette's house, the kids went trick or treating together and then we had pizza. Since my mom passed away all of us kids started a tradition of getting together on Halloween for dinner, we have lots of fun. The Christiansen's were home with the flu this year :(

Batman, Wonder Woman, a Witch and a Vampire!

Tinkerbell, Minnie Mouse and Rambo!

It was a very fun Halloween weekend.

Holy tomatoes!

I got all these tomatoes from work, one of the residents family members brought them from their garden but we aren't allowed to serve them to the residents. The cook asked if I wanted some and I said that I would take a few, she gave all of them to me. I don't even like tomatoes! A few months ago Josh brought home this 'make your own salsa' pack. I decided that now would be the perfect time to make salsa. Why did I choose Friday evening? I don't know, it's not like I had nothing better to do. I could of been cleaning my house or making dinner or watching the guy fix my AC or finishing the YW oct calendar or get caught up on project runway or working on a project for work that I should of finished a few months ago or organizing one of my 3 closets that need organizing or crafting or planning/making my Halloween costume. I had plenty of things I could of been doing.

First I had to scald the tomatoes for 3 minutes in boiling water then put them in cold water. After that I had to core them, peel them and chop them up. While doing this to the first one is when I thought 'what did I get myself into?' i used to help my mom make salsa but she knew what she was doing and would just tell me what to do. I forgot how tomato juice makes your skin itch and burn.

Look at all those tomato guts!

My sister Collette was making salsa too so she offered to seal my cans for me, since I didn't want to do that my self. I ended up with 3 1/2 cans of salsa. I only canned 3 then left the rest out for Josh and I to eat now! I was pretty proud of my 3 cans of salsa until I saw Collette 15+ jars. I still am proud of my domestic-ness!

I want her hair!

I have a problem.

I blog stalk far more then I blog. Every time I am surfing the internet there are probably 27 different tabs open on the browser window of different blogs or post (crafts I want to do, recipes I think look good, or just awesome things!)

I can't even think of what to blog about.

I am in Florida again! Josh is teaching a class and I tagged along just to get away, even though I have been away a lot this summer. Summer has been busy, I feel like I have missed it almost since I feel like I have been gone most of it. I am really not ready for Fall, but hopefully Fall wont be as busy as Summer was.

We have Run For Her Life on Saturday. I am excited for it!

I will try to blog more and blog stalk less for now on :)

I ♥ Faces

This is an entry for a challenge on I ♥ Faces.

as for right now....

...please disregard my last post.

Busy busy busy

Last night I pulled out my brand new sewing machine I got for my birthday from my wonderful mother in law! And placed it on my AWESOME craft corner table provided by my glorious husband, and reconstructed a skirt.

I have had this skirt for about 3 years and always hated the waist band in it, so one night I pulled out me seam ripper and took off the waist line and then it sat around for about 2 weeks, then last night I bought a new shirt from Nordstroms Rack that I thought would look cute with that skirt, I made a quick trip to Joann's and bought elastic and thread. I started in it around 10pm, and figured I would just start it last night and finish it today. I finished the elastic waist band way fast so I decided to just start pinning the skirt around the waist band and that went a lot faster then I thought it would also, so I finished the reconstruction of the skirt in about 30 minutes. I was very proud of myself. I decided after that I should of taken before and after pictures, but I will do that next time.

My Blog :(

My blog is experiencing technical difficulties and most the pictures posted from the last 6 months have been deleted. I am trying to fix a few of my posts but not even close to all of them will get fixed :( this is sad because I was just thinking the other day about how my blog is kinda a journal and there are a lot of things on it I never want to lose. :(

Josh made me another blog a few months ago and I haven't really used it but I figure this is a better then ever to switch over. So here you go AshleeBashlee.com my new blog.