Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dress up

It's that time of year again, when the sun stays up longer and warms you to your core. Finally Father Winter has gone back to sleep and Spring is finally springing. Today I wore warm colors because the weather was just too nice to walk around in blues or black and it made me want to bust out my razor and shave my legs for SKIRT and DRESS SEASON!

Like most ladies, my legs are fuzzy thanks to wearing jeans and pants all winter long. Now that it is much warmer outside and will only continue to progressively get warmer to an unbearable hotness Sacramento seems to attract, it's time to de-fur and get some sun on these pasty legs.

I have a few skirts and sundresses that I bought last year but look at these beauties I found while "virtual window shopping" this afternoon.

Lots-O-Dots Sundress 

Denim Button Dress
Plaid Halter Dress

Ruffled Linen Dress
(Perfect for Easter!)
Modern Color Block Dress

Buffalo Plaid Dress

All the dresses above are for big girls, since I am a big girl. I love the casual Buffalo Plaid dress (above) so much I found a tutorial online how to make an elastic waist skirt.


Susan Peterson over at the Freshly Picked blog has a wonderfully easy and quick tutorial on making your very own elastic waist skirt! I can't wait to try this tutorial this weekend. I need to go fabric shopping now. 

Enjoy.


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Working on my fitness

Guess what I did over the weekend? 

No, not that.

Fine I'll tell you. If you know me in real life, you may already know that I love infomercials. When I lived alone down in Southern California, I spent most Sunday mornings in bed watching them and laughing. Infomercials are funny end of story and I always found myself pondering, "Who actually orders this crap?!" Apparently, I DO.


I ordered the at home fitness workout DVD set called P90X off of an infomercial! If you don' know what that is... Google it. It's an intense workout and I've been surfing the Internet trying to find real life reviews. Not the kinds that are planted online by the company itself, but real live people blogging about their experience. I happened to find a few and the reviews are mixed. 

The reviews and some blogs are a little discouraging but hey I've already lost eight pounds so far this year counting calories. Plus, I only have less than three months until we leave for Mexico so this is crunch time baby (haha no pun intended). 
Our P90X dvd set should be delivered in a few days; UPS says March 22nd at the latest. Now we only have to shell out $100 more bucks to get the needed equipment. This isn't a cheap transition I'll tell you that, but hopefully it will be well worth it when I'm squeezing into cute shorts and lounging around the beach in Mexico. 

Happy Tuesday!

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Resurrecting the blog


Almost a year. It has been nine months since I last posted in this blog. It seems like almost a lifetime. It's been over a year since I have been crafty and I honestly feel as if I have lost a part of myself.

I was catching a lot of flack from others and wasn't receiving the feedback I wanted or thought I deserved so I completely stopped. Crafting and blogging. I tried starting other blogs over the past few months but decided that this is where I belong. This blog was my first ever and my passion. Posting came easily and so did crafting.

I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't let others bring me down or make me change who I am because they didn't agree with my craft or thought I was treading in other's territories.

This is me. Take it or leave it. Hopefully you'll enjoy my blog because I so enjoy sharing my feelings, thoughts, hopes, and dreams and overall being a crafty person.

So what have I been up to over the past nine or so months? Well I was most definitely not pregnant haha.
I started a new job, which is currently sucking the life out of me. Justine has earned a few pay bumps and made her way up the recycling latter to back up driver.

My poor little Curby has gone through a lot these last nine months. I have been going to school day and night and only two and a half months separate me from my bachelors of arts degree in communication studies.

In December Justine, our roomie and Justine's cousin Lisa and I ventured to San Francisco to see Lady Gaga in the flesh (it was fantastic).


I turned 22 years old at Disneyland. 


What is to come? Well in two months and three weeks Justine and I fly to Mexico to vacation for a week in Puerto Vallarta at my parent's time share to celebrate my graduation. Two months after that I move back home for a year to pay off some debt and save up. After that who knows because I sure don't, but I will say I am excited to see what is to come.

Oh yea..... I might get back into the craft game, but we'll see how things come together in the future.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

I'm ALIVE!


Hey everyone. Believe it or not I'm alive. I know I haven't been updating frequently and it's because a whole bunch of stuff has gone down in my little world in the past two weeks.

The Spring '09 semester came to a close, to which I managed to pull off a 3.75 GPA and make it on to the Dean's Honor List AGAIN! I had a full load too, I'm talking 19 semester units and 6 classes. Whew. Thank God that's over.

Summer is here and the weather has been so nice (minus today's weird overcast). A few weeks ago I found out that Apple would not be hiring me on after my internship resulting in panic attacks and mini breakdowns worrying about how I'm going to survive this summer being unemployed. The following week I landed a job working for the State of California Dept. of Justice Treasury as a Research assistant. (Say that three times fast.)

This past week has been rather relaxed for me as I went camping with my family for Memorial Day for our annual camping get together. I worked part time for Apple, very part time in fact and spent my afternoons snuggling with puppies and pining for the Sims 3 release which is tomorrow. I have been focusing more on my future career plans and have laid low on the craft front, but did however manage to make it to Maker Faire this past weekend with the love of my life on our 6 year anniversary. I'm still doing the pet craft thing but I'm slowly turning it into a hobby instead of a form of business. Future plans of attending Second Saturdays and maybe a craft show here and there are still in the works, but nothing too serious.

I have found my calling in graphic and web design and I want to embrace it completely and I believe that making crafts a main priority would only postpone my career plans. For all my crafty friends out there, don't turn your backs on me just yet, I still have lots of crafty juices running through my vanes. I just don't want to back myself into yet another craft corner.

Today was my last day working for Apple and I got a brand new Macbook to celebrate. Tomorrow the Sims 3 releases and you might not hear from me again as I will probably not sleep for the next week. Just kidding. I have to sleep because I start my new job on Wednesday.

I'm glad to be back and I hope you are too.

:D

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Thursday, May 14, 2009

I'm making a WEB SHOW!

Hey everyone!
I've decided to make a web show but I don't have any ideas for names.

I'd love to hear some of the name ideas you all have! :D



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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Park-Your-Art May

Mark your calendars! Park-Your-Art May happening May 9th will be having a Jazz Fest.

I'll be vending with new products included brand spankin' new pet beds!
Come drop by and say hello. Who knows Zoey might be there to model some collars.

:D

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