Candy Apples

Boil 3 cups sugar, 1/2 cup white corn syrup, and 1 cup water until it reaches 300 degrees

Add 1/4 tsp cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon of food coloring of your choice.

Dip apples carefully and cool on wax paper

Red food dye

Individually wrap in wax paper and tie with a string or ribbon. They last about a day before becoming gooey.

Crockpotalooza

Boo Mama is requesting soupy crock pot recipes, so here is one of our favorites.

Cheesy Meatball Soup

***meatballs***
1lb ground beef
1/4 cup italian bread crumbs
1 large egg
dash of salt
dash of pepper
dash of garlic powder
dash of hot sauce if you like
(I have even used frozen meatballs before in a pinch)

***soup***
2 cups water
1 cup whole kernel frozen corn
1 cup potatoes chopped
1 cup celery chopped
1/2 cup carrots chopped
1/2 cup onion chopped
2 beef bullion cubes
16 oz velveeta shredded
dash of tobasco sauce


1. Combine meatball ingredients and form into meatballs

2.Place meatballs in crock pot with the rest of the ingredients except cheese. Cook on low for 8-10 hours. Then add cheese, cook 15 minutes stir, and serve.

3. Eat!


Serves 6

Update

We are still in Atlanta. My aunt passed away early Friday morning. My whole family is here and we will be staying through next week. The funeral was on Sunday and we are just recuperating today. Miss you all at home, and see you when we get back

Leisa

This goes along with Marissa's post! Scary, I tell you! Please make educated decisions not sound bytes from TV ads!

Time for Some Campaignin' | Funny Jokes at JibJab

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Birthday Aunt Elaine!!

What makes America Great! We can protest and speak our mind! Let's Keep it that Way!

Bailout

If you missed the debate, I found a recap of the highlights SNL style!!

Hair Dye Tutorial

In honor of my friends commitment (or lack thereof) to home- dyeing her hair, I have made a home hair dyeing tutorial.



Step 1 Choose your hair color or colour if you are going with L'Oreal.

I happen to love cinnaberry as a temporary color. But we all know that the economy is bad and it's hard enough to put real berries on the table so to speak, without shelling out 9.00 for hair color that lasts only a couple of weeks!





So, for those penny pinches might I suggest a different berry option .

I know it sounds bizarre, Kool aid, I can't dye my hair with kool aid, can I?? Let me submit to you, yes you can for less than .69 a packet. It is temporary, and affordable, and has a myriad of color selections available

* Strawberry Raspberry
* Scary Black Cherry
* Rock a dile Red
* Cherry Cracker
* Golden Nectar

I think that covers most of the color choices, blonde, red, and black .......


Step 2- Find a willing model (we only have kids around our house, so a 10 year old will have to suffice)

Before....



Step 3 - Dunk hair into cups or bowls of the kool aid mixture. I used 1 packet to 1-2 cups of warm water.









Step 4- Pat dry, do not rinse, and blow dry on high heat to set the color.




**note use gloves, but if you don't just scrub some baking soda on your hands and rinse. It came right off. That is also a way to get it out of your hair ;)

And because we also have a 5 year old, and a gallon of orange koolaid sitting around we did her too. And there was enough left for momma, a few of her friends and Orange kool aid with dinner!!

So, Ladies I hope this will help out any of you who might be on the fence about hair dye... No fear , here! And when all your kids come over for the next slumber party, I will show them my new skills!!