Here is a crafty post for you! I needed to take something to a pot luck, so I decided on my famous caramel apples. Here are a few pictures: I did M&M, all chocolate deluxe, butterfinger, apple pie, coconut and symphony. Yummy!
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My blog died and I have NO idea what the heck is happening or how to fix it -AND- I lost all of my blog lists. grrrr. If you could pretty please leave a comment so I can have the address to your blog again I would greatly appreciate it. Please bare with me as I try to figure this out. If anyone has any clues or help to offer.....please send it my way!
Tiny Spicy Chicken
3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast cut into pieces
garlic salt
2 beaten eggs
cornstarch
2 tsp chili paste NOT powder
1 1/2 c sugar
1 c ketchup
4 tsp soy sauce
dash salt
1 c chicken broth
1/4 c brown sugar
Sprinkle chicken with garlic salt I do this very generously. Let sit for 1 hour in the fridge. After an hour dip chicken in eggs and then in cornstarch. Brown chick in fryer until golden brown. Put chicken in 9x13 pan. Mix remaining ingredients in medium size saucepan. Cook until sugars are dissolved. Pour over chicken. (the sauce is very runny at this point but it thickens while cooking) Bake @ 325 degrees for one hour, stirring the chicken every 15 minutes. YUMMY!
Also this month I took some engagement pictures for my friend's older brother. These are a few of my favorites. I wrote some new photoshop actions for their pictures which I love! Congratulations to the happy couple getting married December 5th!
Sorry it has been a crazy month for us...It feels like we've been going non-stop when we can. Here are some things that we have done recently:
These are some of my interior design projects for my theory class where we talk about the different principles of design. These are my abstract butterflies...
One of our assignments was to create a 3D project displaying an emotion. My project was 'glamour'. 

This project was to design a 'modern' teapot...Mine was lime green with black flowers.
We talked about positive and negative. Here is my design:
Our first assignment of the semester was to design a tape dispenser within a certain time period. I did mine like a sculpture of a Russian designer in the Art Deco Era.
One of my favorite nights in the month is Stampin' Up! night. These are some of the projects that we made. I love to decorate for the holidays. One of my favorites is the spider made out of York Peppermint Patties! I think I need to make those for Halloween!!!!!



This is a random cute story about Craig. These flowers we discovered growing in our back yard. Shortly after I met Craig we went through the McDonald's drive thru. These flowers happen to grow on the path of the drive thru. Craig reached out and grabbed one as we were driving away and said something about a beautiful flower for a beautiful flower. I love that fact that we found these in our back yard!



This is a random cute story about Craig. These flowers we discovered growing in our back yard. Shortly after I met Craig we went through the McDonald's drive thru. These flowers happen to grow on the path of the drive thru. Craig reached out and grabbed one as we were driving away and said something about a beautiful flower for a beautiful flower. I love that fact that we found these in our back yard!
One really fun thing we did the month was hang out with our niece. We were playing with BUBBLES!!!!!!!!! It was great to feel like a little kid for a few minutes, completely care free.
One crazy thing that happened this past month was my birthday! My work (Maceys) brought me a balloon bouquet to my house. Each of the balloons were purchased by some of my co-workers. They put their name on the balloon and a few dollars in it. It was really sweet since I've been really sick lately and some of my friends at work found out and they gave me this. It was really humbling for me. I cried when I saw the balloons. It was helpful for us!
WARNING: This is a scary picture. My friends in the floral department came to take me to dinner to celebrate my birthday. We love to go shopping together at Ross. One time we were there we saw these horrendously awful moo moos. They bought one for each of us to wear and we wore them to dinner and to see 'Mama Mia'. It was a ton of fun even though we looked REALLY SCARY!

Today we were set apart as gospel doctrine teachers in our ward. Craig is super excited and I am slightly intimidated! Next week is our first lesson. We are in a small ward. Craig and I are also the ward librarians, Craig plays the music in priesthood and I am the ward music chairperson. Gotta love the joys of being in a small ward where people have multiple callings at a time.
School is going great. Craig just did really well on his stats quiz and I am doing ok in my interior design classes. Every single week I have at least one drawing project due.....I am working on getting more in tune with my inner artist. Hopefully I tap into that creativity SOON!

We survived the first week of school at USU!!! Craig is an accounting major. This semester he is taking accounting 2020, economics, business stats and more math. He loves it. (I'm sure grateful that's not me in those classes) He will have a ton of homework-YUCK. I am thinking of going into the interior design program. I have 3 interior design classes and two general ed classes: biology and humanities, where the bible is my only textbook. So far I really enjoy it all. I am really intimidated by the art/sketching aspect of interior design. Next semester I hope to take some art classes and I'm hoping this semester to 'practice' by taking some art classes by a guy in my ward, Jonathan Ribera. We'll see how it goes. Wish us luck this semester!
Craig and Belinda Olsen
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Craig and I have been married for a little over 2 years. When we aren't working or going to school we like to play 'Lost Cities', cook together, go for walks, watch movies and eat ice cream. We have a pretty low key life. One day we'd like to have a family. For now I have a camera. :-) If you are interested in checking out my photography site please visit www.belindaolsen.com I specialize in newborn, toddler, children and family photography. Other photography available upon request.
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