Ashley Nelson

In preparation for halloween me and Michael went over to our friends Cameron and Jennie's house to carve pumpkins.  Me and Michael picked a spider to carve onto the pumpkin and cam and Jennie did frankenstein. Once we finish carving it we decided to put a glow stick in it instead of a candle this year. Got the idea from Pinterest of course. Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year, so we didn't know if we were going to be able to go to the traditional Wade family halloween party. Luckily our class schedules made it so we could go to Driggs for the night.  When we got to my parents house my mom put me straight to work making yummy halloween candies. We made carmel chocolate dipped pretzels and carmel apples.  They were soooo good, I crave carmel dipped apples all of the time. Here are some pictures of our creations. The finished product! Normally after all the kids have gone trick-or-treating or trunker treating at the church we all head over to gr

While in school I found this really cute old desk at a yard sell and wanted to fix it up and put it in our spare bedroom.  The lady was wanting $30 for it, but I talked her down to $15 because one of the legs was broken and I was going to have to re-paint it, so she gave it to me for that price.  I was so excited to get started! The best part about all of this is that ACE Hardware had there free pint of paint day going on, so I even got some paint for free it was awesome!  I started on my project literally 2 days after I got the desk.  I was so excited to get started on it.  Here is a picture of before and after I finished it. After having it for maybe 2 weeks, I got online and looked to see how much a BYU game would be.  When I was looking OSU happened to be playing BYU in Provo, I checked to see how much it was going to be and it was around $40.  You are probably wondering how this has anything to do with a desk I fixed up? Well I got this great idea to now turn around and sell t