Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Home Made Pasta Sauce
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Home made applesauce
Step 7: Drive around looking for apple place that is still open in the rain
Step 10: Go "Oh crap the apples!!!" and gather up all your stuff to process them
Step 24: Burn your hand while putting a ring on the jar
Saturday, November 13, 2010
I love the Commissary
(sorry for the quality,my phone doesn't take the best pictures)
So in those bags are:
(2) Kix
Saltine Crackers
Egg Noodles
(2) Newman's Own Marinara sauce
Oatmeal
Nilla Wafers
Penne Pasta
Mini rigatoni pasta
(2) Cans condensed milk
(3) cans evaporated milk
16 oz. walnuts
16oz. pecans
(3) cans Bush's baked beans
(10) Macaroni and Cheese
bread crumbs
Filipino noodles
Pumpkin pop tarts (nom nom splurge for me, I love all things pumpkin)
Apple Cheerios
(2) Cans green enchilada sauce
Red enchilada sauce
(3) Bags marshmallows
Boysenberry Syrup
Canola oil
White chocolate chips
Mint and Dark chocolate chips
(3) Cans cranberry sauce
Pumpkin pudding mix
(6) "Green" light bulbs
(2) Boxes freezer bags
Foil
Toilet cleaner
2000 flushes
Dishwasher tabs (our dishwasher SUCKS so we are constantly trying to find the best cleaner to use in it)
Laundry soap
Matches
(2) Green scrubbies
(2) Scrubby sponges
(2) Cans cat food
Press N' Seal
Hawaiian rolls
(2) Cans crescent rolls
Margarine
Monterey Jack Cheese
(6) Yogurts
(2) Butter
Tampons
Shampoo
Conditioner
Flintstone Vitamins (they taste good, don't judge)
Axe shower gel
Acorn Squash
Pomegranate
Apples
Butternut Squash
I had 18 coupons that added up to a savings of $12.77, which brought our grand total to $162.01
Now I was curious how much of a savings that really was (and I was bored and had nothing better to do) so I went on the Safeway website and plugged the same items into their shopper. One thing to note is that at the commissary most of the items I purchased are actually name brand. I'm not usually brand particular (except soda, and mac and cheese) but they do not carry many "off" brands at the commissary. Since I am not brand particular when I was on the Safeway website I just picked the cheapest of whatever the item was for the same size/count/ etc.
So my Safeway total would have been.... $274.47! That is INCLUDING the Safeway club card AND all of my coupons (some of which were commissary specific).
Granted these groceries will have to be supplemented with milk, eggs, veggies, and home made bread, but otherwise we honest to goodness probably have enough to get us into 2011. :)
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Thrift Store WIN!
Was I interested?Hells yah!!
So I drove down and met her there (she was keeping an eye on it for me). It immediately went into my cart. While we were wandering the store multiple people kept asking about the mixer in my cart, and then a ncie older lady gave me a $5 off coupon. Score! I didn't know they even did coupons at the thrift store. All in all it cost me $22 after tax. On the way home I stopped at Home Depot and got some paint for metal for $13 so all in all we are at $35 (the new versions of this mixer run about $380)
So here are the before pictures
see that faint dinge, that is actually greasy grossness
don't you want to use that to make your cinnamon rolls? Ewww
So then I scrubbed. And scrubbed. And scrubbed. Then got out a green scrubby and scrubbed some more. Then got a toothbrush and scrubbed some more. And then I bleached.
I really wanted this in another color, so here is where the paint comes in
man that picture makes it look BLUE
I was looking at it and it just didn't seem to fit our house. Then I had a GREAT idea. Our house is a combination of my girly-ness and Alex's Marine-ness. Sure I made it blue, but it just didn't fit in. So I got some black paint and TADA
I am now the proud owner of a custom Marine Corps Kitchen Aid Mixer :)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Enzoani Gorgeous With Curves Bridal Show
So about a month ago my soon to be sister in law was picking up her wedding dress at Trudy's in Campbell, while we were waiting for her dress she was approached by the owner of the salon. One of the dress designers, Enzoani, was having a trunk show for their new plus sized line and she wanted to know if Kelsey was interested. She was flattered, surprised, and accepted. I was standing next to her and laughingly said, "Man that's what I get for buying one of your sample dresses at a Bridal show" Trudy laughed and said they'd love to have me too. YAY for mooching opportunities!! Flash ahead to yesterday, we went down to the salon and were looking at the dresses, they were size 22 and 24. I'm a curvy girl, but not 24. But man add some clips and that dress looked AMAZING. Kelsey got one dress that was a 14 and one that was a 22. (Turns out there were size 16, 18, and 20s in the show as well, but they were assigned to girls the night before. Grf).
So today we went down nice and early. Got our hair and make up done. (I didn't particularly like how my hair looked up close, but in the pics it looks fantastic). One of the makeup artists has been a plus sized model for 7 years so she took us through a run through on the catwalk so that we wouldn't be afraid of falling on our face. Then its game time. Everyone in that back room was NERVOUS. My first dress was so much too big that I was popping safety pins right and left, they had to bring in the massive industrial safety pins. Kelsey was behind me in line and all I kept hearing her say was "oh shit oh shit oh shit". Deep breath time to go. First half of the catwalk I was just focusing on not falling, then I realized, "Woops! Slow down" took a deep breath and things went great from there. Alex (and Jimmy, Kristin, and Mothra) were at the end of the catwalk so I just had them to focus on. Smile at the photographer, turn around without hitting someone in the face with my train(and then popped a safety pin which scared the crap out of me, but thankfully my dress didn't fall) and keep on going. Then it was back into the first room and out of the dress as fast as possible. In hind sight having my back to an open door (that some ppl could see into) in a thong... maybe not my best look. oh well. Back out for dress #2. This one wouldn't quite stay up high enough (they didn't have enough time to pin it properly) so I was walking on it the entire way down, it also was heavy satin, had a train and a half and was HEAVY!. Afterwards we took a few individual and group shots and then off to take my$150 credit for my time and bought a brides maids dress for Kelsey's wedding. All in all it was a great, fun, day.
(see the clips)
(I rock the $3000 dress)
(really surprised me how great the makeup looked in pictures, goes to show you need to do drastically different makeup from your day to day when youre being photographed)
(kristin liked my hair)
(That was a LOT of fabric to get in that small of an area)