Pinteresting {1}

Pinterest has got my mind on fire. In a good way. I have sooooooooooooo many ideas rolling around up there and I cannot wait to start them. I have a few easy projects in mind to begin with.

1. I need to paint the frame. White or yellow? Or perhaps red, to accent the heart...I just don't know! What do you suggest?

2. I need to paint these too. I am thinking white for these. Or black.

3. I need a frame for this. and a picture. I'm thinking a pink frame. But I could use any color of marker used so this one might take awhile...

4. I'm not quite sure what to do with these (the wedding mad-libs). I figure pinterest will inspire me :)

5. I have 10-15 pounds to lose. I am at a solid 134 pounds which is completely fine but I'm normally between 120-125. I want to go back to that. Really, I want my pants to fit :) I figure with this and my daily 20 minutes of walking to and from work might be the trick.

6. Toms. They are so pretty. The End. Thank you pinterest for showing me the light.

Ideas 7-100 are still rolling around for now. They'll make an appearance at a later date :)

Project Baby Quilt {5, 6, 7}

I have been thrilled with my motivation for this project so far. Why? The main reason is that the last quilt I started is still not finished.

It's been three years.
Yeah.

I have not yet passed the point in this quilt that I was on in that last quilt so my next Project Baby Quilt update will be extra exciting. As long as I get there... :)

Here are the photos from my progress:

August 20 - I spent a few days mulling over the layout. I am a perfectionist in my mind but then I don't always follow through. I was worried that if I jump right in to sewing and then realize, "OOPS! there's five yellows in a row!" that I would be too lazy to do anything regardless of my mind going crazy about it. So I mulled. And it worked...for the most part. You'll see in later photos that the layout does in fact change.

August 25 - I sure did mull. I was nervous to start this part because I was worried that nothing would line up. In the end not many of the corners did, but oh wells. The next quilt can only get better, right? I'm still pleased though.

August 27 - The top is now done! I still have to sew on the green border but we're almost there.

I seem to have a lot of excitement coming up so I'm not sure when Project Baby Quilt will continue. Hopefully, I'll muster up some motivation on a weeknight when Gary is gone. My weekends seem to be full already!

I just want to blog.......

I have spent a solid half hour trying to get to this specific page on the interwebs. The connection has been so incredibly slow tonight but I was determined.

Wait.

That's a bold-face lie.

At 9:30ish, I thought about blogging. I have plenty to blog about really so I thought I should get on it. But then I realized how tired I was. and lazy. So I turned off the TV and living room lights, turned on the fan in the bedroom, got in my pajamas and crawled in to bed. I opened my current book (see below) and started reading. A good two sentences in, I realized just how tired I was, how tired my eyes were. I felt like my eyes were spinning and I could barely stay concentrated on the words. Fail.

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So I returned to the living room, turned the TV back on and tried to load this page. It took awhile but I am here. Finally.

Speaking of slow internet...is it weird that the connection is super slow but when I watched Project Runway on mylifetime.com, it worked with ZERO buffering. Incredible.

I now have to go because Gary just got home. Here is a taste of what is to come:

Project Baby Quilt {5, 6, 7}
Pinteresting {1, 2}
What's for Dinner {1}
First Friday {4, technically 5}/Labor Day Weekend.

I am so excited :)

Productivity sure makes me smile :)

Today has been such a great day. First off, I got off work at noon. Can't beat that. Second, I have had the most productive afternoon in years! That's probably an exaggeration but who cares. When I got home, I ate lunch and then set off to Southdale Center to go shopping. I had coupons for Express (Gary) and Loft (me). Gary has NO IDEA but I got him four new button-up shirts and 3 new ties. I can't wait for him to come home and find them in his closet. Not only are they new, but I saved mucho dollas. It was buy one get one free and then I had coupons to save $40 and then 30% on one item. Heck yes. I then went over to Loft and purchased a couple long-sleeved shirts and cardigans, all of which were on super sale. Lovely.

My one downer for the afternoon was that I forgot to bring my Crate and Barrel gift cards with me. I was going to pick up most of the rest of our registry today but guess not. Oh wells.

I then went to Rainbow because I had found some coupons that would get me some Monopoly tickets. I am so close to winning that I NEEEEEEDED to get a few to make sure I won something. Not only did I get a few, I got..................46 tickets. If I don't win something with 46 tickets, I might cry. I smiled the entire way home from the grocery store.

When I got home I hung up all of the new clothing, cleaned up the bedroom, tidied up the living room, compiled all the garbage that I hope Gary will help me take out later, washed the dishes and am now making dinner. And the air is on. I'm not even close to being hot. That makes my day even better.

I will now proceed to open those 46 tickets. I'll report on that later.

Update:

I wasted an entire hour to find out that I didn't win anything. Lame.

Project Baby Quilt {4}

I surprised myself by working on the quilt yesterday. Reason #1: I didn't feel up to it earlier in the day so I just assumed I wouldn't. Somehow, I mustered up some desire to work on it. Reason #2: Not only did I work on the quilt, I worked on it for over 2 hours! I just didn't want to stop. I feel really good about the progress I'm making. The rate I'm going, the top will be finished in no time!

ps: I realized yesterday that in all of the Project Baby Quilt photos, I am wearing very similar, if not the same clothing. Yes, I have been in the pajamas for what seems like all day every day for a couple of weeks but I am proud to say that I HAVE showered every single day. That counts for something, right? Oooooh well. I at least changed my pants for this blog's photos :)