Halloween Table Runner

Saturday I also sewed a Halloween Table Runner! I made the fall one and realized I needed to make our halloween one :) So here it is!!!

I love the fabric for this one! It's some of my favorite halloween material. And it's just so easy to make!!

Project 365 - Saturday October 10th, 2009 - Day 10

My pictures for saturday:

The materials to make the Giant's pillow for Chuck's new mancave!!
And Roxy's first fall/winter fire pictures! She loves when we have a fire and we finally had cold enough weather to have one saturday night!

Downtown Hometown!

So Friday as our Date Day we went to downtown of where I grew up. Only 20-30 minutes from where we live now, so easy drive, but I hadn't been there in awhile so we decided to go check it out!

This is the view from the parking garage!

Waiting for some yummy food. We ate at a small little grill in downtown across from a park!

Chuck got a bbq burger and I got the french burger :) YUM!!!!! I love their french burgers! And we got a huge order of yummy french fries!

And we visited a little christmas shop!! I was so happy it was open and it had so many beautiful ornaments!! I love love love christmas!!! I was so excited!

And what did we walk out with?? South Park Ornaments!!!!! LOL. Not one pretty little glittery ornament, but South Park!!!

We had so much fun!! We only went to the grill, and a few other stores, but then we headed home to let the puppies out and I got some scrapbooking done :)

Project 365 - October 9th, 2009 - Day 9

So Friday's picture of the day is kind of boring! It was the last weekday of our vacation and we needed to take Chuck's car in for an oil change!! So the first shot is of us on our way!!
And we took them to the wonderful Firestone! I love that place and it's right around the corner from our house :)

WW Pumpkin Spice Cake

I have been craving pumpkin bread for awhile now, ever since Starbucks came out with the Pumpkin Spice Latte!! I looked in my Weight Watchers Recipe and found a recipe for Pumpkin Spice Cake, which seemed close enough to pumpkin bread!

I added all the dry ingredients together


And then I added the wet ingredients, including the "rare" Libby Pumpkin Mix. The rumor of the pumpkin shortage in stores seems to have become a reality where I live. Two of our big grocery chains are out of pumpkin and not sure when they are getting more. But Mom and I stocked up at Lucky's and Wal-Mart!

Mixed all together...such a pretty color. I would definitely do this color as a wall color in my bedroom!

Fresh out of the oven! I wish I could add smell to a blog! It was amazing!

And then out of the bundt pan, onto the cake platter, sprinkled with powdered sugar, served warm!!

It is so amazingly good! On the higer point end of weight watchers, but one slice is enough satsifaction!

I don't want to brag...okay maybe I do...I am enjoying a delcious slice of pumpkin spice cake as I am typing right now! I just want a pumpkin spice latte, which can be arranged and this cake and I couldn't be happier!

Recipe:
Ingrredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a 10 inch Bundt pan with nonstick spray, then lightly dust it with flour.
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, granulated sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, oil, milk, pumpkin puree, and vanilla. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture; stir until just blended.
3. Pour the batter into the pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 55-60 minutes. Cool in the pan on a rack 15 minutes; remove from the pan and cool on the rack 30 minutes longer.
4. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar.

Project 365 - October 8th, 2009 - Day 8

Today I am sharing pictures of my "kids"!! We put Buster and Roxy's shirts on today! The month of October is the only month I make them wear clothes! Although I think Buster likes his!! And then both the kitties were hanging out on the stair so of course I needed a picture of them!

Jasmine and Belle

Little Roxy - (She hates wearing clothes) And Buster Roo!!!

I think the dogs look adorable with t-shirts! But I'm about the only one LOL! My boyfriend hates it! But he humors me for the month of October!

Halloween Advent Calendar

So I saw a really cute idea on Two Peas that was essentially a fun Halloween calendar! The person who made the other put it onto a baking sheet, but I just used a 11 x 14 photo frame that I had lying around! This was so much fun to make!! The squares are 2x2 inches and I used templates and my cuttlebug to cut out the numbers and then I used various halloween stickers and background paper! I am going to work on a Christmas one for december! I just finished this one today so 7 days into October, a little late but it was so much fun!!!!

This is it in the frame!

Project 365 - October 7th, 2009 - Day 7

So today I had to get up early and go take a test! And this was a picture from Stony Point Road at the HWY 116 intersection and I was stopped at the light! I just thought it looked so pretty!
This was around 7:30-7:45 AM.

Project 365 - October 6th, 2009 - Day 6

It is never too early for me to be buying christmas items! On Oct 6th I went to Big Lots and found these glass ornaments!! Only 10 bucks and they are so adorable! Chuck and I are trying to get some real ornaments and not the cheap-o ornaments I got for my little tree! So we are slowly but surely adding more ornaments we love! Chuck's favorite is the polar bear (bottom left
) and mine is the snowman on the bottom row!!

Weight Watchers Brownies

So I have decided I need to lose weight! But I love my baked goods too much to give them up so I dug out my weight watchers recipe binder and found this brownie recipe! And they smell so delish!! I can't wait to try one later tonight!

And I will be back to a normal workout routine this week and some adjusted eating habits :-)

First we had to melt down some chocolate, I had Chuck do that cause I just can't seem to do it right LOL. And then combined with all the other ingredients;

Flour, Sugar, Baking Powder, Baking Chocolate, eggs, salt, egg whites, butter.


Popped into the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes! I just took them out so I can't wait to try them!

New Recipe - Beef 'N' Cheese French Bread

So tonight I skipped class and decided to make a new dinner recipe and a new weight watchers dessert recipe!

But for dinner I made these :-)

Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
2 cans olives (I didn't have these)
dash of onion powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp garlic
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 loaf french bread
2 cups sharp cheddar cheese

First you brown the meat and drain! Then combine the meat, onion powder, salt, chili powder, garlic, and cumin! Spread the meat mixture onto the loaf (cut in half) and top with cheese. Then pop into the oven for 10 minutes on 450 degrees!

After it's been in the oven!

TA DA! It was pretty good! Definitely fulfilling and only needed to eat this much! Chuck hasn't eatem yet, he wasn't hungry! But I like it alot and once it has olives and even maybe some lettuce it will be even better!

Project 365 - October 5th, 2009 - Day 5

So for my pictures today I chose a picture of our new home theater system :) Chuck got some money from his Dad and really wanted to get us the matching home theater system to go with our tv!


AND....I got my purchase from Flowers to Flourishes! I can't wait to use these! I got all of this and shipping and it was only $20 :-0!! Such a deal and they are so much cuter in person than when I saw them online! All the little flowers have glitter all over them!!

Betty Swap

So my Betty finally got her package! So I can post the card I made and the jar I decorated for her! I didn't want to post until I knew she got it, you just never know who is clicking through on a blog and in the off chance she liked to cruise blogs (my link is in my siggy on Two Peas) I didn't want to spoil anything! But here are pictures:

Project 365 - October 4th, Day 4

So on Sunday we got up and ate some breakfast and then started packing up. But as my mom was standing the doorway of their 5th wheel her dog Maggie was curled behind my mom's legs and it was so cute. She doesn't leave my Mom's side, but she looked really cute!!


And for Tomorrow we are....on VACATION! We are doing some rearraning of furniture and then enjoying being home! I will also be working on my halloween calendar. I am already 4 days behind and I would like to get it up and have it up this season! :-) I will take pictures of what I've done so far!

Project 365 :October 3rd, Day 3

Good Morning Fellow Campers:

Yummy potatoes, eggs, and ham scrambled together, topped with cheese and yummy biscuit!!

So at the campground it turned out there was a fun event going on that day! They had a bunch of vintage trailers and all were decked out in vintage items. It was so neat. And this one, which is for sale, apparently had the artwork on the front done by the same artist that worked on the Disney movie the Cars. It was really cutely done.

Inside of one of the Vintage trailers, the stove was so cute!

And one of the vintage trailers! I love the all metal looking ones! They were so cute and tiny!!

Day 4...

Project 365 - October 2nd, Day 2

And we are on our way!! Friday at 4 could not have come sooner! We were both officially on vacation and getting ready to head out for a camping trip with the parents, sister and her friend danielle!
Relaxing by the Fire! Cooking some beans and getting ready to roast hot dogs!

And the moon that night was beautiful!!

Day 3...

Project 365! - October 1st - Day 1

So I decided to start my own 365 project and I'm too impatient to wait until January to start :-)
And I decided I wouldn't stick to just one picture!! I am going to blog about here and also make a little scrapbook journal!

Here is day 1 - Oct 1st, 2009

I woke up at 5 to get into Sonoma by 7 so I could get my work done early and have time to get stuff together for camping!! So I had a yummy yummy breakfast!

And I was so excited to come home and find my newest steal of a deal! I saw in a Better Homes & Gardens magazine an advertisement for free shipping on a little teapot for one! So I went online to http://www.englishteastore.com/ and bought this baby for $6.95 and free shipping!! It's so perfect and cute and I can't wait to use it for the first time!

And now for day two....

NEW NIGHTSTANDS

So I am happy to say we have now bought all furniture for our bedroom that matches!!YAY! We got two new nightstands and a dresser that match the TV Stand we found at the thrift store! We haven't put together the dresser but next week on vacation we are putting it together and then rearranging the bedroom so I'll add pictures next week of the bedroom fully put together!

Here's Chuck putting together the nightstand (with help from the dogs)


Here it is all put together! And Belle is modeling for you :-)

These are so awesome because now we both have matching night stands and we have so much more room! We can easily fit our alarm clocks, glasses of water and lamps. I also can fit my book and the phone without trying to figure out how to make it fit! I am so so happy! The drawer is deep and has lots of space and now I can keep my books and magazines on the shelves and not littered all around the house!