I HAVE PICTURES TO SHARE!

Everyone loves pictures. Here are pictures of a pair of blue jeans I altered for Emilee similar to Heidi Swap's. You know, they were the rage last year :-). I thought they'd be most cute for a kid, so here's my first attempt. I used acrylic paint and mixed fabric medium with it, but really only was pleased with the black. The white paint turned out okay, but the pink wasn't as pink as I wanted. So since then, I've bought some actual fabric paint in white, pink and sparkle. Emilee's dragonflies and butterflies have alittle sparkle on them. Most of the stamps you'll recongize as Making Memories or Li'l Davis. The butterfly and dragonfly are from Micheals

WEIGHING; CARPET; SCRAPBOOKING

Yesterday was weigh in day, I didn't go. I went to eat with friends at work for February birthdays. It was mine and Sherri's birthday lunch. We went to J Alexanders. It cost me $19.22 for lunch. I got chicken & smashed potatoes and fruit tea. They add $2.22 for tip because there was 11 of us. WOW, expensive lunch. But it was pretty good. Just a lot of food! Back to weighing, I did weigh this morning on our scales at work and according to them, I had actually lost more weight. YEA! Now, I don't weigh again till next Wednesday, but I plan on being very good for the next week, so maybe I'll have a GREAT week. I'd really like to get down another 10 lbs before April... and that would be a total of 18 lbs since I started. That would keep me in a size 12 clothes, which is fine with me.

Carpet: I've found carpet, Berber, light colored with specks. Its nice. Something that isn't expensive, so if needed, it can be easily replaced. Its just making sure we get the right amount. The problem, carpet only comes in 12 ft or 15 ft widths. My room width is 16 ft. The length of the room is 24 ft, that means we can use 2 12ft width of carpet, each being 16 ft long. I would have a seem running through the middle of my room, no problem. Well, I woke up this morning thinking about the support pole in the basement, you know, the pole that holds up your house!?!?!? Well, it doesn't move, so in order to put carpet down, you have to cut a seam from the wall and put the carpet around it, no big deal UNLESS, the pole isn't exactly in the middle of the room. Your thinking, huh? See, if the carpet is only 12 ft wide and the pole is more than like 15 ft from the wall, I'll have two seems only like 2 ft apart in a major walk way. I don't think thats good. So that means I'll have to spend $150 more to get the 15 ft width so I only have ONE seam! Clear as mud? And yes, the difference in the amount of carpet I need between 12 ft wide and 15ft wide is $150!!! Thats a lot when you're trying to stay within a budget and still need trim, TV and couch!

Scrapbooking: I'm ready to scrapbook some. I made a couple of cards last night. It was suppose to be Emilee making a thank you card, but I ended up making hers and using the extras to make another almost exactly like it for a b-day card. So, now that the basement is warm, I want to work on my scrapbooking.... BUT we're to a point in the room that I can help, so I doubt I'll get to do a lot of scrapbooking while DH is painting trim, he'll be expecting me to help. Which I guess is only fair! But I do plan on getting to Scrap It tonight, so I'll post tomorrow what I buy!!!

{I gained!!!}

Not that I'm surprised. I've gotten really lazy on counting and recording the points or just not caring. It doesn't help that we went to a b-day party Saturday night and I had one small piece of b-day cake and another somewhat small piece of coconut cake (homemade with fruit in it - yummy!). Then Sunday we had the Cheesecake thingy at Applebee's. Emilee and I split it, but still it was HEAVEN!!! So, I gain +.2 ! Yup, thats all. Only 2 ounces!!!! I was stoked that I could eat like that and somewhat maintain. Now if I was excersing, those ounces probably would not have crept back on. Next week's weigh in won't be any better. Its a hard week when its your b-day. Around here we celebrate with b-day lunches for 2 or 3 weeks!!! I went out to eat lunch yesterday and today. Yesterday was cracker barrel and I was really good, except the cornbread muffin and then today, not too bad, except the friend cornbread I had at Tex's! Last night I cooked spaghetti, which was not bad, I use venison and wheat noodles, but I have to cook cresent rolls for DH and I couldn't resist one slathered in honey butter!!!! Oh well, you have to enjoy life sometimes! Back on it tomorrow :-)

Thanks girls for the tips about the Christine Cole paper. I thought I had seen it in 12 x 12, but honestly never in the packs. I just assumed.

Anyone have carpet installed lately? Or better yet, know a carpet guy/person? We're putting down carpet in the bonus room and were trying not to spend over $1000 on it. I know that really cheap for a 16 x 24 room, but I want to cut corners wherever I can. We have a quote for Mohawk carpet and padding for $1369 is that bad? That includes everything, removing old, moving furniture, installation. And we got a quote for hardwood that was about $3000 over what we've budgeted for that. We thought it would cost us around $5000. I guess I'm a major cheapsake, I hate to spend money on the house, I don't know why, but I do!!

Anyway, just a little venting.

See ya!

{Time for a change}

As you can see, I've changed my blog a little. I like change. Change is good. Its time to reflect on what's worked and what hasn't. I think that the reason I don't mind the remodeling we're doing. We're making something new. Its nice! But I have to admit, it hurts going through it!

I don't have much to say other than ....... I need a new headshot so I can post it here. Maybe this weekend.

AND the best part ........ I REALLY want to scrapbook. Isn't that great! I think I want to shop first and see new stuff, so I'm going to try and hold off shopping as long as possible, I want to see the CHA stuff.

Anyone in the Nashville area know where I can get a 12 x 12 pack of Christina Cole paper? I really want some of them!!!

{Wednesday}

So, its Wednesday again. Time to update the ol' weight loss story. Down another 1.4lbs. Total lost 8.2 lbs!!! Yea! I THINK I might hit goal! We've got 4 more weeks and I need at least 2 lbs per week for the next four. Thats gonna be hard though cause we're going to eat at Kobe's Steak House Friday night for my b-day and then Sunday with my parents to Applebee's (I can get a WW meal there) where I can get their to die for Apple Cheesecake Chimchinga thingy. Its too die for!!! I told her no b-day cake this year. Its a serious problem for me. I can eat b-day cake till I make myself sick.... honestly!

Monday night I had someone help me with my income tax, cause I had to add the business stuff in there. I've never filled out a schedule c before. But it was pretty easy. We're getting back enough to pay our property tax and use some for the house (either a new couch or recovering my grandmother solid wood couch!) I can't wait to get a new couch and chair. I'm seriously hating the ones I have now!

We've got the downstairs room painted. Lyndhurst Timber is the color. Very masculine. I'll try and post a color if I can find the paint sample. We now have to pick out tile and carpet. Then comes the trim. After that a big screen TV! I vote to move the one upstairs, down, but DH says we need a new one? Whatever!!!

Gotta run to the eye doctor! Post more later!

Today is Wednesday ... Fat Meeting (as a friend puts it!)

My friend that does Weight Watchers with me calls it our "fat meeting". I weighed today. I lost 2.8lbs last week!!!! Total down 6.8lbs! I'm stoked. I know thats not a huge amount, but I'm not starving but I'm not totally full - somewhere in between. I think 2 lbs a week is a good amount. Maybe the slower it comes off, the easier it will be to keep it off. A good thing is my pants are fitting a little baggier! YEA! Maybe I can back into those 12's by mid-Feb and MAYBE 10's by the end of the summer.

I miss all the bloggers that are away at CHA this week. Heather White is about the only person around. We've been having a "conversation" about the remodeling work each of us is doing to our basements. I think I'll take a picture tonight and post if tomorrow. I want ya'll to see the wall color I picked out. A little different for me, but it is encouraging me to paint my bedroom (I have the paint, its a dark sage color). And then maybe my livingroom (it would be perfect if I could paint it before the new floors go in, but that asking way too much! I think my living room would be pretty in a warm yellow color. But I know DH would never go for it!

I'm taking off 1/2 day Friday help DH paint. Fun! Fun!