A Confession

I have a confession to make. I haven't sewn since last week. Why? Well, here's the real confession...I WAS (key word being was) addicted to caffeine. I was drinking 5-6 cans of these a day:

This was the view in my fridge on Friday night...they lasted until Sunday morning.

Aaahhh yes...the a formidable Starbucks Double Shot Energy + Coffee drink...vanilla to be exact. Swoon. How I miss the! Ok, allow me to wipe the drool off my chin so I can continue.

I stopped drinking these and mtn dews, along with starting an all protein diet with no carbs. I'm determined to lose 60lbs. I've been going through major caffeine withdrawals and I have been spending most of the last 3 days in bed..sleeping.

I am finally starting to feel a bit better so I'm hoping I can go today without sleeping. I've been going to bed early (like 8:30pm) and sleeping 4-6 hours more during the day. Please bare with me as I go through this transition. Thanks!

Until next time...caffeine and carb free hugs!

Wonderful Weekend

This past weekend was wonderful! My mom came up from Arkansas to visit and Princess #1 turned 8! Forgive me as this will be a super short post. I have sworn off all moutain dews and all of my starbucks double shot energy drinks. I am drinking diet coke with splenda (yuck) and water. I'm determined to lose weight even while sporting a killer headache. Here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure!

Me and my birthday girl!

My mom :)

Off to survive this headache! Hope you all have a great day!

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A New Companion

Thanks to my sweet mother-in-law I have added this to my sewing stuff. I'm so excited about it and yet scared at the same time! I've had it for a week and a half and have yet to do anything with it. I know, I'm bad. I will though!

Not a lot of sewing or crafting has been going on this week. I do have to finish a purse before this weekend though. I did send my quilt top off to get quilted. I cannot wait for it to get done!

Hope everyone has a great week! If you have any pointers about using a serger I would be very appreciative if you'd leave me a comment or shoot me an email to help me out!

Odds and Ends

Seems as though it has taken me a week to catch up on sleep, dirty laundry, and house cleaning from last weekend. I made my kids clean their room and somehow they'd managed to keep a basket and a half of dirty clothes in their rooms! No wonder why I couldn't find their clothes to wash and they complained every morning they had nothing to wear to school. Haha!

Friday I cleaned off my crafting/sewing area and got it all organized yet again. That night I sat down to add borders or frames to my quilt. First sewing I've done since last weekend! I thought I had my quilt done, but then I decided I'd like it just a little bit longer and wider, but I had no more material to continue with the 9 patch blocks. Last week, I had bought these fabrics to use as borders for my quilt. To make a long story short, the local quilt shop's measurements ended up sending me home (in my case out of state) with not enough fabric to go around my quilt like I had explained. I had planned to leave my quilt with my mother-in-law so it could get quilted, but I ended up bringing it home with me so I could finish the borders. Monday I went and bought more material, made some changes, and here's the final quilt top...

I'm thrilled with out it turned out! I have enough extra left over of the fabrics I can make shams for my bed as well! I'm sending it off to get quilted on Monday or Tuesday. I can't wait to get it back and all finished!

Hope ya'll have a wonderful rest of the weekend and if your in the area (like me) that's supposed to be getting bad storms w/possible tornadoes tonight...stay safe!