Time to do something about it

No way around it, I'm fat. And I'm slowly getting tired of it. I keep trying to be accepting of my body....I don't hate my body. But this darn belly, and fatty armpits, and the fact that I can't polish my toenails. Time to stop my complaining and just start exercising and eating better. Nothing too intense.

The hubby dragged me back to the gym yesterday. I did 20 min on my favorite cardio machine, the Cybex Arc Trainer.

using my favorite exercise accessory, my Ipod Nano.


Then just a teenie tiny bit of weights, at teenie tiny weight (that was supposed to sound funny, guess it doesn't.) I have a neck/shoulder problem and am not supposed to lift anything, but the stretching portion feels good.

So I've started. I also have tried since yesterday to watch the food. In about an hour though I'm out to lunch with the KC Pinheads. And I won't munch on any of the other yummies that are brought.

Goals - I don't want to diet, just pay better attention to hunger and the quality of food. I do want to exercise, and will build that up slowly.

Initial weight goal is to lose 12 lbs. Then just go in 10 lb increments (maybe 5, who knows.) I will post a ticker later.

Wish me luck.

Making pants fit

So I posted photos of the fitting the KC Pinheads are working on, the pants that just weren't fitting right. The other day I decided to watch the PalmerPletsch pants fitting video, and that got me motivated to try that method.

I'm at what I think is a decent fitting tissue, I just haven't gone farther.

The pattern I'm using for the Palmer Pletsch method is McCalls 5672. I bought it for the cute dress/tunic, but I haven't even started on that.

What I've realized is that so many of the patterns I buy have pants included, and at $0.99 a pattern, heck, I'm going to start cutting them up and experimenting.



But today's plan is to go back and attempt the Cynthia Guffey method again. I will bring my first horrid muslin to our Saturday fitting party, and hopefully a better fitting one.

My plan on my second attempt is to use a 1" longer crotch depth, and not allow for ease in the crotch. Don't ask me why...it's just my plan.

For this attempt I'm using the pants from yet another pattern I have around, the tunic looked horrid on me, and I was about to toss it. I'm finally getting smart....save patterns for awhile at least.

It's Vogue 8503


I'll try to be good and take pics as I work, and of my muslins. Even though it's so embarrassing to be seen in such a state of disarray. I just want it to be perfect.

And today's nails are Essie Click it or ticket. All was good till I messed up the thumb in the shower, so I did my first nail art.

A big thanks to the followers

Wow, it's really cool to see that people actually follow your blog. That little "follow" feature is awesome, and blogs that I've been reading just in my normal google Reader RSS feed, I'm now slowly switching over to "blogs I follow."

So here's a big



Here's a cute photo of my cat, Lucius. He's notorious for hiding in different places. I always know when he's hiding, because one of my other cats, Narcissa, will go around meowing in this special voice. She's done it since she was a tiny kitten. It's her way of saying "Lucius, where are you?"

Oh, he's hiding inside the partially un-upholstered chair.

Reupholstering for college

My two daughters will be sharing and apartment next fall with one other girl. We found these chairs some time back and now are starting to reupholster them.

Sewing for my daughter

My younger daughter is home for the summer and I'm looking forward to sewing for her. Yesterday morning I was happily tracing out a sundress pattern for myself, then I asked her what she thought, and she said "it won't look cute on you."

Ugh...

So I dragged her to the fabric store to help me find a pattern that would look good on me.

Ended up with the jumper picture above, which I started sewing up last night for her.

And also a Burda pants pattern

And I got myself this Burda t-shirt pattern. I was interested in it since it is plus size and I don't have to fuss over making it bigger in certain areas, and it has bust darts.

What's wrong with these pants?

My daughter was trying on shorts the other day when she came across this pair and just had to take a photo on her cell phone. I said to send it to me, I really want to share it.

Great Blog Information to share

Yesterday was one of those weird days. I didn't sew, I didn't clean, I did go out for lunch with Ody and her kids (that's fun,) but I did spend a lot of time on the computer working on my blog. I love the internet and I love google and finding all sorts of great information.

I found sites that told me how to change the backgrounds, borders and margins, and other stuff like that in blogger. I found a couple sites I like with great free backgrounds. I researched which photo sharing site I would like to use. I'll post some of that information in this post.

Awesome seamless backgrounds
Squidfingers
Pattern Cooler

How to do it yourself
FreeBlogForum - how to insert background in blog
Blog Busters - great tutorials

Free Designs
The Cutest Blog on the Block - Free Designs for your blog
Pimp-Your-Blog

And I decided to use Picasa Web Albums for my photo sharing. They allow up to 1 gigabyte free storage, and that's a lot of space, especially if you size your photos down to a decent size. If I did my math right, and please correct me if I'm wrong, you can post 10,000 - 100kb photos. And my 800x600 pixel photos are about 100kb.

Wow, did I do that right?

Well, hopefully some of you can use the information I've posted or at least find it interesting.