Halloween green witch makeup

Face and eyes:
Mix green and white face paint color together to get a light green color - apply all over face and neck.
Apply a bright shimmery lime green eyeshadow all over face and neck to set the face paint.
Use a dark forest green eyeshadow to contour nose, cheek bones.
Use a bright shimmery yellow eyeshadow to highlight under eye area, cheeks, chin, bridge of nose and forehead
Apply a shimmery olive green eyeshadow to the eye lids.
Apply matte black eyeshadow to contour eyeshadow crease and use as bottom liner.
Line eyes with black eyeliner.
Use the same black eyeliner to draw eyebrows and fill them in.
Apply fake 'spider' eyelashes to eyes.

Lips:
I filled in my lips with a silver eyeshadow pencil
I used a dark violet eyeshadow to as lip liner
I brushed silver eyeshadow on lips

Product used:
Mehron green and white face paint
Wet n Wild I Dream of Greenie eyeshadow trio (the lightest lime green shade)
elf Disney Villains Maleficent book Fauna eyeshadow (dark forest green color)
MAC Gorgeous Gold eyeshadow
MAC Carbon eyeshadow
Avon black eyeliner
elf spider lashes
Duo eyelash glue

11 months old

My son turned 11 months old this past weekend. He is growing up so fast, I can remember when he was just a infant but that seems like yesterday (I know, so cheesy). Now he is so active, he doesn't want to be carried or held anymore (but only when he wants to) and he's talking and playing a lot more. Now we are trying to get him to start learning to walk but he's being lazy in that area. I guess that's okay for now, because they keep telling me that once he learns to walk he will be everywhere and harder to keep up!

Rundown of my wedding day attire

This is my Wtoo/Watters ivory lace ballgown. It is gorgeousssss! I wish there was a time or event where it is socially acceptable to wear your wedding gown again haha. This wasn't my first wedding gown though. Before I stumbled upon this one, I had ordered a dress from Simply Bridal. It was not what I expected and I was very unhappy with it. You can read about it here. So I returned that dress and searched for the dress. I found it at Sunday's Bridal. It is everything I wanted in a wedding dress: lace, ivory, sweetheart neckline and ballgown style. I feel it's a classic style so years from now maybe my daughter might want to wear it.

To go with the dress, I also wore a lace key-hole back bolero. It matched the dress perfectly! Even better is that I got it for free from Tulip Bridal's contest! I saved $80! I purchased my veil from ebay from another bride for $75. It is a David's Bridal 2-tier scalloped edge fingertip veil. The beading on this is really pretty. And last, my shoes are Olivia by Calvin Klein. I got these on ebay for $45.

So...
wedding dress - $550
bolero - free
veil - $75
shoes - $45
Total : $670

Easy fried rice

Ingredients:

• 1 lb bag of frozen chopped peas and carrots
• 4 Chinese sausage links (lop chong), sliced in half and thinly chopped
• 6 eggs
• cooked white rice
• 1 clove minced garlic
• chopped green onions
• soy sauce

Directions:

1.  Prepare rice: I made 4 cups or rice in the rice cooker. While I let the rice cook, I prepared the sausages and chopped onions and minced garlic.
2. Scramble eggs in a pan. Set aside in a bowl and chop into smaller pieces.
3. Add oil to a large pan and cook the sausages for a few minutes.
4. Add some oil to pan and add minced garlic and onions. Stir around for 1-2 minutes.
5. Add in the chopped peas and carrots. Stir until veggies are cooked.
6. Add a little more oil to pan (if needed).  Add in the white rice and stir.  Mix the veggies and sausages into the white rice.
7. Add soy sauce to taste and stir all ingredients for a few more minutes.

Stuffed bitter melon soup

Ingredients

• 3 bitter melons, cut in 1 1/2 pieces with inside seeds taken out. 
• 1 lb ground pork
• bean thread
• minced garlic or garlic powder
• black pepper
• fish sauce
• green onion

Directions

1. Soak bean thread in hot water for 15 minutes. Drain and cut into small pieces. 
2. Cut bitter melon in 1 1/2 in. pieces. Take out insides/seeds. Rinse with water.
3. Take mince garlic and black pepper and mix with ground pork.
4. Add 2-3 tbsp of fish sauce and bean thread to ground pork mixture.
5. Stuff bitter melon with pork.
6. Add 4-5 cups of water in pot, boil.
7. Add stuffed bitter melons into pot. Season with fish sauce.
8. Cook for 45 minutes or until bitter melon is soft.
9. Garnish with chopped green onion and cilantro.

Stir fry bitter melon with egg

Ingredients

• bitter melon cut in thin slices
• crushed garlic
• soy sauce or fish sauce
• oil

Directions

1. Heat oil in pan.
2. Stir fry garlic.
3. Add bitter melon slices and stir for 10 minutes.
4. Add fish sauce or soy sauce to taste.
5. Add beaten eggs and stir until eggs are cooked.

Ga kho gung (Vietnamese braised chicken)

Ingredients

• 1 lb dark meat chicken
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 knob of ginger, julienne cut
•  1 tsp ground pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 2 tbsp fish sauce
• 1 cup water
• 1 tbsp oil 

Directions

1. Caramelize sugar in pan, stir until brown. Add to bigger pot.
2. Add chicken, garlic, onion and ginger, stir 2 minutes.
3. Add salt, fish sauce, pepper and water, stir and cover pot with top. Keep on high heat. 
4. Cook for 15 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked.