Halloween Crafts

I know it's been quite a while since my last post but I actually have something I feel is worth sharing today so here it is! 

I started halloween time a little early this year because I love it so much. I don't have my dearest scary movie date, Craig, to entertain me during this spooky time so I started crafting with my roomy and here's what we came up with! (with some help from good ol Martha)

These I found here http://papercrave.com/paper-crave-halloween-freebies-halloween-garland-two-ways/  

I came up with a different way to string them because I cut out so many of them. I would say this was my most time-consuming project.

This was a Martha Stewart project. We didn't have all the correct tools so the hole didn't turn out quite as large as we wanted, but still super spooky in the dark!

This window silhouette was my favorite project! I just found images online then drew them onto black butcher paper and used an exact-o knife to cut them out then taped orang tissue paper behind them. At night I turn on a lamp behind them and they look amazing from outside!

Here is another Martha project, it was in the kids section, but very challenging.

And last but not least some Martha cookies I made with Aubrey! Emilie attempted to help but ended up being the photographer because she is not patient enough for cookies :)

Those are all my crafts SO FAR..... I have been working on some cards and I have more ideas  I just need to find the time!

Thanks for reading

time

November flew by! and December is doing just the same. It's been a while since my last post, probably because nothing new is going on... well Mike and I made a beautiful Thanksgiving feast, we went vegetarian because cooking a whole turkey seemed like a lot of work and there were no rotisserie chickens at Safeway at 6 am

But it was a delicious dinner anyway. We made a beautiful pecan pie (which makes me question the saying "easy as pie".) .

We did go out on black friday (not until 1pm) and picked up a nice $25 tree and decked the house out for Christmas!

Well now there's only 15 days until I go visit Utah and I am overly excited! Things are going great here, I love my job working with the veggi cook Tamarro (pronounced tomorrow) in the kitchen and Lane Community College. School gets out on the 11th so I will be jobless until the 4th of January.

I'm excited to see everyone and I'm counting down the days!

Sweet Creek Falls

With talks of 30 days of rain, Mike and I decided to go on a hike while we still could and while the leaves were changing colors. We went to a place called Sweet Creek Falls just outside of a town called Mapleton! 
It was a beautiful hike, we felt like we were in a rain forest. We saw 7-10 different waterfalls and it was just breath taking!
Well it's been really rainy since and I can't believe October is halfway gone! I went to a haunted corn maze with some girlfriend from work last night and had a really good time. Things have been going great! I will talk to everyone soon! 

The long awaited pictures of the apartment are finally here! I everything to be in order and just lovely!
<-----These are the mirrors

This is the kitchen looking to the living room

This is an odd angle looking to the top level

The stairs

The start of the table!

Well that is all for now!

Recycling!

At about....every grocery store here in Eugene they have these recycling centers and almost always there are crowds of people at them. I thought it was insane that recycling is so big here. 

Well Mike and I saved up our cans and other good to be recycled and tried it out. The machine scans bar codes on cans and other items and decides to keep it or reject it and pays you a small amount for each item. We did not know this is how it worked and we had smashed all our can so we didn't make any money off of it but it was a fun adventure. 

Fun days

Mike and I made our way to Florence and visited Heceta Beach. It was about 20 degrees cooler there than in Eugene. I found a bunch of jelly fish that I kept almost stepping on. We went a little further up the beach to the largest sea lion caves in America and we were going to take the tour but we were informed that we would not see any sea lions because they are all in the water preparing for winter so we would only see the caves. We decided we will go back in the summer when we can actually see the sea lions in the wild!

The beach was soooo foggy we couldn't even see 10 feet in front of us for the first hour but then it cleared up a bit and we could see 20 feet in front of us. The water was FREEZING but there were still plenty of crazies out swimming around. But it was a fun day!

This is Mike with Mr. Ken Kesey himself...dad should appreciate this one, this is a memorial for the guy who wrote "One Flew Over the KooKoo's Nest". He was a very large man, this was life size and he was huge! We found him right in the heart of downtown.

Yesterday went on a trip around downtown Eugene and went in all the little shops and just wandered around. This was a really neat fountain we found on one of the corners.

Oregon

Well I made it to Oregon with no problems. The drive was loooong and quite boring. The entire east side of Oregon is nothing but nothingness. It was straight long roads with nothing to see.

We had some fun stops along the way; we stopping in a little nothing town called Brothers with nothing within 70 miles of it. We decided to eat at the little Cafe/gas station/post office/gift shop/grocery store....all in one! Well all the regulars were there (I'm guessing that's the entire town) and they were very old friendly men. The one old man told us crazy things and took our picture then told us he would email it to us so we would always remember that day. It was fantastic! And to make things even better I had the BEST bacon cheese burger I have ever had. So if anyone is planning a trip to Eugene anytime I would suggest stopping in Brothers and trying one of those!

Everything else has been going good, we have been lost a couple times in this town. Oregon is quite different than Utah in many ways. The street signs, the stop lights, the spiders!!! But I am having a great time exploring this place and learning new things. My apartment is beautiful; the picture is taken from my back patio, it is a very green place with trees EVERYWHERE!!!

Well that is all for now, I will be posting pictures of the town and all the weird things I am not used to, so check back soon! I miss everyone from home but know that I am doing great and I will talk to you soon!