1Mile Stats

I've got this almost under control. In 5 days my time has greatly improved. I'm working my way up. I am now at 1 mile on the eliptical in just over 13 minutes. my goal this week is to make it in 10 minutes.

A TuTu For Your Valentine

TuTu's are all the craze! I made some tutu's for a little valentine. They were made for the baby shower honoring the little valentine to be.

Tutu's made for decorations and Tutu's made to wear.

One tutu made of the mint green, pink, and white decorated the cake stand for the shower cake.

Here's a tutu-torial that I'm sharing. I had to make a quick tutorial to send to my shower hostesses so they could get the cake tutu and  made for the shower. Thank you sistas for doing a great job. Sorry but blogger only loaded a portion of the total tutorial video. Hope it is enough to get your started.

The video should show 12 inch strips of netting cut, then the strip folded in half and looped on the elastic all the way around, being sure to pull each loop taught and close together all around the circle of elastic. It took about 50 strips of netting to make each of these tutus shown in this post.

After the netting is looped around the elastic, I machine sewed a pink ribbon on the elastic, leaving hanging ribbon ends on each end to tie into a bow. Then I marked with pins the waist on the onezie and  hand blind stitched the tutu around the onezie.  I had already prepared the onezie with iron ons with the little valentine's name on one and the the other onezie was a store bought onezie with the pre-printed design on it. These were newborn size onezies.

A really cute popular project to make for your little valentine.

I am linked to A Crafty Soiree @  Yesterday on Tuesday,



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A TuTu for Your Valentine

TuTu's are all the craze! I made some tutu's for a little valentine. They were made for the baby shower honoring the little valentine to be.

Tutu's made for decorations and Tutu's made to wear.

One tutu made of the mint green, pink, and white decorated the cake stand for the shower cake.

Here's a tutu-torial that I'm sharing. I had to make a quick tutorial to send to my shower hostesses so they could get the cake tutu and  made for the shower. Thank you sistas for doing a great job. Sorry but blogger only loaded a portion of the total tutorial video. Hope it is enough to get your started.

The video should show 12 inch strips of netting cut, then the strip folded in half and looped on the elastic all the way around, being sure to pull each loop taught and close together all around the circle of elastic. It took about 50 strips of netting to make each of these tutus shown in this post.

After the netting is looped around the elastic, I machine sewed a pink ribbon on the elastic, leaving hanging ribbon ends on each end to tie into a bow. Then I marked with pins the waist on the onezie and  hand blind stitched the tutu around the onezie.  I had already prepared the onezie with iron ons with the little valentine's name on one and the the other onezie was a store bought onezie with the pre-printed design on it. These were newborn size onezies.

A really cute popular project to make for your little valentine.

I am linked to A Crafty Soiree @  Yesterday on Tuesday,



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January Honors

I've been waiting all month for the January family birthday party. It's getting pretty close to the last day of the month. Birthday honorees for the month of January took a little seafood hit. Seafood always hits the spot.

 Birthday honorees this month were Larry (husband) and Chris (son-in-law) with a stop at the restaurant and then back to the house for Gambino's cake. Can I say full, ate too much, oh I am stuffed.

Then a girl's walk around the block. It was mainly to look at the new houses being built. Some were just about finished and they were left unlocked. So a nosey tour inside to see the new builds and a walk and talk and ended back for some baby time.

Elipticaling

Is that a word?  It's similar to bicycling. See, elipticaling / bicycling.
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I started a few days ago. It's an older model elipical.  But it works, and a new one wouldn't get used any better or any more than this one. So I am happy with it.

This is me starting out this week.

I made .50 miles in 10.48 minutes.

That is a half mile in almost 11 minutes. That's good for my first day this year. Last summer I was walking the street at a fast pace and did 1 mile in 20 minutes. So my goal for this summer is a 3K somewhere. I know there is some smiling family members out there who wants to participate with me.

I will be up to 1 mile in 20 minutes in 1 week. Stay tuned.

Project Done

I spent the day all by myself. My day off. Husband gone hunting. Sometimes I like and/or need a day to myself. So do you want to know what I did?After lounging around doing absolutely nothing after I got up (I may have fallen asleep on the couch about 9ish. Can't say for sure, cause I don't remember. I just remember the dog barking feriously and me thinking "who could that be, I'm not dressed." Thankfully, it was a false bark. I managed to get dressed, eat cereal, brush my teeth all in a matter of minutes. I had a few projects on my mind's list of things I wanted to accomplish or at least finish some unfinished projects.My chosen project of the day was to sort all my photos from 2012 and get them in the photo album. I have a physical photo album of every year from the beginning of time. Even though pictures are now digital and I have them on a SD card, on a CD disk, on my PC and or laptop, on my CELL phone, and plastered all over FB and even Walgreens and Shutterfly keep a group of my albums for me. Plus I make a blog book on line from my other blog mominthewilderness with all the photos. But, I have to have a physical photo album of the pictures for one reason. I have to have an in the hand, go-to physical photo. I guess i am old like that. Even since my kids have been grown, they enjoy looking thru the photo albums of themselves and comparing themselves to their siblings at the same age. Or comparing what one got for their 8th birthday was better than what their siblings got at the same age. My photo albums do end up giving me a bad rap and comes back to bite me. Yes, we do enjoy looking at old home movies of ourselves, too. We still do that.

Alas, I completed my 2012 photo album.

Baby Time Again

Coldest Day of the Winter Season Vlog

Nutritional Health Colors

I came across this chart on my 2nd week of "clean" eating during my diet and exercise regime. I may have already known this, but it's good to refresh my memory.

The chart I can follow. My exercise regime is kinda side tracked because of all the rain, because I tend to walk/run as my exercise.

So pile on these foods to better eating and health.

Before and After

Poochie Dog went to the Poochie Parlor today.

But first, this story: About a year ago I contemplated, in visioned, planned, and actually researched on line to become a dog groomer. There is an on line course with accreditation and certification. It takes up to 9 months to complete at your own pace. Long story short, I was going to open a doggie shoppe and name it Poochie Parlor. It never came to fruition. Dream washed down the drain.

So, as we riding along back from the city to the wilderness, there is a nice advertisement sign "Lauren's Poochie Parlor". The girl stole my idea and stole my business name!!, I exclaimed. We got her number and called her up and made an appointment for Poochie Dog.

So here she is before and after.

I like the long fluffy curly look she had.

But now she is true to form of a schnauzer, for a while anyway.





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