I am very sorry to say that after working so hard from Sep., 08 to Mar, 09, in which I lost a total of 21 lbs, I ended up gaining it all back plus a bonus 10 lbs to boot. For some reason, after all my hard work, I just quit doing everything right and started doing it all wrong, hence the re-weight gain. However, this Christmas my beloved has purchased for me a new year's membership at Curves and I absolutely can not wait to use it. This time I intend to lose the weight for good and then keep it off. Nothing felt so good as it did when I hit my lowest weight last year. I could wear anything and look good doing it.
Now I am relegated to wearing only exercise pants with stretchy waists and only one pair of jeans that I own fit me. After I gained the weight back, I was forced to run to Wal-Mart and buy stretchy jeans. STRETCHY JEANS! If I have a choice, this type of pants are not on my list of must-haves. Of the three I purchased, one stunk to high heavens. I think it is the dye they use on it, they are black, and it makes them smell like petroleum. Washing them numerous times has not helped either. But, alas, they do not fit me anymore either. Of the other two pair, just one fits me, but barely. I guess the good part about this is that each pair of jeans was only 5 bucks, so beggars can't be choosers.
Now that I am blogging, I intend to hold myself accountable, whether anyone else reads this or not, I plan to write my progress here on my blog. When I start I will post my measurements and from time to time I will check in about how the weight loss is going. Wish me luck!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Cookies
Every Christmas I bake my special chocolate chip cookie recipe for Craig. They are so yummy! I made 16 dozen this year. Anybody want some?
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sentimental Value
This is a picture of my dresser. I have had this dresser since I was a kid. My parents bought it and one more for my older sister at a thrift store in Utah. The dressers came from a hotel in Las Vegas that was remodeling. They had been spray painted orange and a mustard yellow veneer was placed on top. As kids, Genise and I used to put stickers all over our dressers, Million dollar man, Bionic Man, Wonder Woman, etc. Back in 1999 I decided to strip mine down and refurbish it back to original. I started in my dad's garage and got some done. Then I moved to West Jordan and didn't have access to a sander for a long time. When I sold my house in 2002 to move to GA; I was moving out and had furniture on the lawn in preparation to load it into a truck. The agent who sold my home was there and she came over and offered me $100 bucks for my half -sanded orange dresser. Needless to say, I declined her offer. After all, this was MY childhood dresser and had too much sentimental value to ever sell it. Well, fast forward 4 years.
There is a stamp branded on the inside one of the drawers that says Heywood-Wakefield on it. Curiosity finally got the best of me and I googled it. Low and behold the dresser was worth about $1800 if refinished back to original. The dresser was made between the years of 1949 and 1951. It even has a name: Kohinoor Mr. and Mrs.dresser. It is an all wood piece made of Birch. It is mid-century modern and very retro. No wonder I have always loved it. There is also an entire bedroom suite that matches it perfectly.
My beloved dresser had been relegated to the basement and garage by Craig, imagine that? It's also been moved around a lot! I finally got sick and tired of not being able to use it. I had sanded a lot more of it down when we lived in Alabama, but not completely. So last month I pulled out the sander and got all the rest of the spray paint off. Then my hubby sealed it for me and my kids are able to use it in their bedroom. I am so pleased with the results. Now, I can't say what the monetary value of my personal dresser is now, but I think of it as a MasterCard commercial; PRICELESS.
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There is a stamp branded on the inside one of the drawers that says Heywood-Wakefield on it. Curiosity finally got the best of me and I googled it. Low and behold the dresser was worth about $1800 if refinished back to original. The dresser was made between the years of 1949 and 1951. It even has a name: Kohinoor Mr. and Mrs.dresser. It is an all wood piece made of Birch. It is mid-century modern and very retro. No wonder I have always loved it. There is also an entire bedroom suite that matches it perfectly.
My beloved dresser had been relegated to the basement and garage by Craig, imagine that? It's also been moved around a lot! I finally got sick and tired of not being able to use it. I had sanded a lot more of it down when we lived in Alabama, but not completely. So last month I pulled out the sander and got all the rest of the spray paint off. Then my hubby sealed it for me and my kids are able to use it in their bedroom. I am so pleased with the results. Now, I can't say what the monetary value of my personal dresser is now, but I think of it as a MasterCard commercial; PRICELESS.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Reupholstery
I am so excited. I bought a chair at a thrift shore in Ogden, UT 13 years ago for about 25$. It looked like a chair that was made in the 30s or 40s. It had good bones, and a bad upholstery job. The orange flowery retro look just didn't do it for me. Well, finally I was able to get it reupholstered by a friend in Alabama. I had her come look at it back in April 2009, finally dropped it off at her house in May 2010, she finished it a few months later and I was able to pick it up last week. I love it!
The chair was at one time my only piece of living room furniture. It has followed me around Utah and then to GA, AL, and back to GA again. It is so comfortable. Unfortunately, Craig thought it too ugly when it was orange and banished it to the basement. I just found out that his friend Ray wanted it last year for his friend's ugly chair contest at one time. I told him it would have been a 'no go.'
My grandmother had taken an old ladder back chair and removed the back part of it. She then took the seat part and upholstered it herself to make an ottoman for a Queen Anne chair that she also reupholstered. She gave me the ottoman, so I also had it upholstered to match the chair. You would never know that they weren't a match from the beginning. The material I chose is a brown denim/jean material and I think it suites. Now I need to find a small rectangular blue pillow to go across the back and it will be perfect. I will put it in my bedroom as a reading chair.
The chair was at one time my only piece of living room furniture. It has followed me around Utah and then to GA, AL, and back to GA again. It is so comfortable. Unfortunately, Craig thought it too ugly when it was orange and banished it to the basement. I just found out that his friend Ray wanted it last year for his friend's ugly chair contest at one time. I told him it would have been a 'no go.'
My grandmother had taken an old ladder back chair and removed the back part of it. She then took the seat part and upholstered it herself to make an ottoman for a Queen Anne chair that she also reupholstered. She gave me the ottoman, so I also had it upholstered to match the chair. You would never know that they weren't a match from the beginning. The material I chose is a brown denim/jean material and I think it suites. Now I need to find a small rectangular blue pillow to go across the back and it will be perfect. I will put it in my bedroom as a reading chair.
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