There's this training program called couch to 5k (c25k) that takes you from the couch to being able to run a 5k, it seems super easy to follow. Week 1 starts with a 20 minute workout alternating walking and running/jogging. I downloaded the app onto my iPhone awhile back (like last year) but never got very far because the weather got bad here! Well I want to start it again and was planing on starting yesterday, but it was raining! Of course! So if it's not raining this evening I will try to start it today! My goal as far as working out is just doing that for now and eventually adding weight training!
Today we have our final walk thru for the house! Im so excited to go see the house again! I miss it! Lol. It feels like I haven't seen it on so long and hopefully we'll be moving in by this weekend! We went to sears on Saturday and picked out our microwave, fridge, washer and dryer! Now we just need to know the closing date so we can set up delivery! I'm hoping we remember to measure the living room tonight to see if a couch we like at ikea will work in the living room! I cannot wait to be out if our tiny apartment and into the house!
And my mom is coming to visit on Saturday for 1 week! I'm so excited to see her and spend time with her! And for her to see the house of course! My mom and I are really close and being away from her is one of the hardest things about living here in Utah...so hopefully we can get her to move here!!!
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Major itch
I posted this last week and couldn't find it yesterday, well today I found it under 2000, no clue how that happened, but here it is!
I have a serious crafty itch right now! I grew up around sewing...my grandma is awesome! I remember spending time with her learning to sew when I was little, she'd take me to pick out a pattern and we would make it together! Sometimes it was doll clothes, sometimes clothes for me, or blankets for my dolls and barbies. Years ago I taught myself how to knit, more recently how to crochet. I've always loved scrap booking too! Near the end of last year my hubby let me buy a sewing machine as an earlier Christmas present. I started with doll clothes for my niece and baby blankets! But before that I made my cousins little girl her outfit for her first birthday! Tutu, Swarovski crystal "1" onesie and Swarovski crystal toed converse. She's such a cutie!!!
And she LOVED the tutus!
So first was non-sewing projects...
Then I moved on to learning to sew!!
Adorable doll clothes for my niece!
I might have gone a little overboard, but I was hooked! I loved it! I even bought a pattern and made her and her doll matching night gowns!
Then I moved on to baby blankets! So easy and so fun to make!
Then I discovered blogs...sewing and craft blogs...oh my! Wow...I've got a whole LONG list of things I want to make...but a lot of things are for babies...and I don't have one of those yet, and without one for measurements it's kinda tough. And with the house buying I can't wait to make our house a home using my sewing machine!
Right now we live in a teeny apartment, my fabric is stashed in our small storage closet on our patio, and with boxes filling up all use able space inside it's impossible to get a project going...other then barbie clothes for my niece using my scrap fabric.
I've even packed up some of my crafty stuff already, thinking I wouldn't use it until after the move. Blah! I know that soon I will have a whole room of crafty goodness, heck I've even made frames for the room! It will be a craft/guest room and I'm going to use my pre-marriage furniture (fairly new from ikea!) bedding and decor which is mainly black and white, my room was black, white, and pink! So same theme will continue!
I even have material to make curtains! I can't wait to get my fabric out off storage containers and organized onto shelves so I can see what I have to work with! But the idea of a WHOLE craft room, space to spread out, organization is making me feel so disorganized and like I have no space to do anything now...which is SO frustrating when I just want to create! I want to snip fresh fabric (bittersweet feeling cause I hate cutting up beautiful fabric, but usually LOVE what comes from it) hear the hum of my sewing machine as I create something awesome! Um... Usually only awesome to me...I'll hold it up for the hubs to see and he'll be encouraging but the look on his face says "why in the heck did you make that?!" I can't wait to have kids and be able to actually show him what I can make! Cause making something and sending to my niece who lives a few states away and he doesn't get to see her wearing or enjoying it is much different then (I imagine) it will be to see his child clothed in or enjoying my creative craftiness! So until we move, which should be happening within the next 2 weeks, I will have to deal with this itch that I cannot scratch! I can't wait to get my craft on!!!
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I have a serious crafty itch right now! I grew up around sewing...my grandma is awesome! I remember spending time with her learning to sew when I was little, she'd take me to pick out a pattern and we would make it together! Sometimes it was doll clothes, sometimes clothes for me, or blankets for my dolls and barbies. Years ago I taught myself how to knit, more recently how to crochet. I've always loved scrap booking too! Near the end of last year my hubby let me buy a sewing machine as an earlier Christmas present. I started with doll clothes for my niece and baby blankets! But before that I made my cousins little girl her outfit for her first birthday! Tutu, Swarovski crystal "1" onesie and Swarovski crystal toed converse. She's such a cutie!!!
And she LOVED the tutus!
So first was non-sewing projects...
Then I moved on to learning to sew!!
Adorable doll clothes for my niece!
I might have gone a little overboard, but I was hooked! I loved it! I even bought a pattern and made her and her doll matching night gowns!
Then I moved on to baby blankets! So easy and so fun to make!
Then I discovered blogs...sewing and craft blogs...oh my! Wow...I've got a whole LONG list of things I want to make...but a lot of things are for babies...and I don't have one of those yet, and without one for measurements it's kinda tough. And with the house buying I can't wait to make our house a home using my sewing machine!
Right now we live in a teeny apartment, my fabric is stashed in our small storage closet on our patio, and with boxes filling up all use able space inside it's impossible to get a project going...other then barbie clothes for my niece using my scrap fabric.
I've even packed up some of my crafty stuff already, thinking I wouldn't use it until after the move. Blah! I know that soon I will have a whole room of crafty goodness, heck I've even made frames for the room! It will be a craft/guest room and I'm going to use my pre-marriage furniture (fairly new from ikea!) bedding and decor which is mainly black and white, my room was black, white, and pink! So same theme will continue!
I even have material to make curtains! I can't wait to get my fabric out off storage containers and organized onto shelves so I can see what I have to work with! But the idea of a WHOLE craft room, space to spread out, organization is making me feel so disorganized and like I have no space to do anything now...which is SO frustrating when I just want to create! I want to snip fresh fabric (bittersweet feeling cause I hate cutting up beautiful fabric, but usually LOVE what comes from it) hear the hum of my sewing machine as I create something awesome! Um... Usually only awesome to me...I'll hold it up for the hubs to see and he'll be encouraging but the look on his face says "why in the heck did you make that?!" I can't wait to have kids and be able to actually show him what I can make! Cause making something and sending to my niece who lives a few states away and he doesn't get to see her wearing or enjoying it is much different then (I imagine) it will be to see his child clothed in or enjoying my creative craftiness! So until we move, which should be happening within the next 2 weeks, I will have to deal with this itch that I cannot scratch! I can't wait to get my craft on!!!
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Feeling crafty
My last lost was about my crafting itch, I wanted to make something but with our apartment being a mess getting ready to move and lots of my crafty stuff already packed up there wasn't much I could do about it. Well awhile back I say some yarn at work that's super soft! Its bambospun and as soon as I saw it I wanted to make something with it. Well I realized duh! I can crochet! It's doing something craft that doesn't take a lot of space, prep, or materials and it doesn't make a mess! I can do it while sitting on the couch watching tv! But what to make? I had made some super cute baby beanies awhile back and they were pretty easy to make and super cute and I had an idea for a new one. I saw on a blog a beanie just like one i had made, but instead of a crocheted flower attached to it you attached a button and then could button on the flower! So you could change the flower. Super cute idea! So after work I bought some yarn and a crochet hook (I wasn't sure if I had already packed mine or not). Well I made a beanie and a barbie one for my niece! Only I have no idea where my buttons are, so I will have to find those to finish it. But it definitely helped with the craft itch! I live creating something! Even though I don't have a little head to put it on yet!
Here's the one I made awhile back!
Not bad for my first attempt!
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Here's the one I made awhile back!
Not bad for my first attempt!
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