Veggie Garden!

For years I've been wanting to plant a vegetable garden at home. Since I had been living in dorm rooms & a town house I haven't been able to. My last roommate had a crazy green thumb and got me into planting some things and now that I recently moved back home I finally decided that I'm going to do it.

I planted squash, green onions, lettuce, beans, carrots and I got a cucumber plant, chocolate bell pepper (yes. Chocolate. It apparently just looks like chocolate but tastes normal) and a black tomato plant.

full garden

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My squash and cucumbers are growing like crazy! I love it!

This is the biggest one

my cucumber plant is taking over the world! ...or at least our back patio. ha.

I don't think I've actually ever eaten squash so my first taste of it will be my very own. Two of them need to grow about 2 more inches and then they will be ready to harvest. I've already been pulling some lettuce and throwing it in my salads. I'm excited to have some cucumbers. I've been wanting to make some pickles (just to say that I have done it. ha).

-Sara

Weight Watchers Update (7 June 2011)

Second weigh in was today and guess what?!?!

I LOST 2.4 POUNDS!!

Eck! I was so excited. I didn't count like I should have so I didn't think that I would do that great. But I was wrong! Ha. I think it has to do a lot with the fact that it was my first week back and I always seem to do rather well my first week back. I think it's just my bodies first reaction to knowing it's not going to get all the food in sight. So this coming week I'm going to have to be on my game and really track all my food.

I also started walking around the local middle school track with one of my friends. It actually wasn't that bad. I thought it was going to be so hot but we had a nice breeze and they were watering one size of the field in the middle of the track so we get some nice cool watery breezes. And plus we talked the whole time so it went by kind of quickly. It was nice. We're going to be going every Tuesdays and Thursdays.


And I set my first big goal too. I want to loss 30 pounds by my birthday in December. To do it I have to loss at least 1.5 pounds a week. I think it's a really good goal and I could easily do it. My ultimate goal is 60 pounds I think. I anything too far over would actually put me underweight. I haven't really set a goal date for this yet but I like the idea of cutting it into small chunks. Make it more manageable and seem more doable.



*Tracker*
Goal: 30 lbs.
Gone: 2.4 lbs.
Left: 27.6 lbs.

Lovely Sundays

Dang. It's been a long and boring week.

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I want this

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Ahh I LOVE kittens

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Amen!

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Crafty Saturday

I'd say I had a rather productive day!

So a while back at my old job we could get any dress from the store for 60% off and since we didn't really have any of the dresses I liked yet in our store I just got a plain black strapless dress because I didn't want to pass up that deal. Well I don't really like strapless dresses so I decided to add straps to it. I was going to just add plain black straps but ended up getting the wrong shade of black. So me & my mother went to Hobby Lobby and were looking at the fabric and she had the brilliant idea to look at the ribbon. I found this flower ribbon and fell in love! Ha.

I also added the flowers at the bottom. I was going to make them but we decided to just get some already made ones that have pins on the back because it was cheaper.

This is a close up of the straps.

I'm pretty much in love with this dress!!!



I also got this little pattern and fabric/material set a while back at this cute little store near Atlanta called A Scarlet Thread (this has to be the best store I've ever been into. I walked in and literally stopped two steps in and my mouth dropped after seeing all the wonderful fabric. LOVE IT. And the people there were SO nice and helpful too!) and I finally made it tonight.

I'm pretty proud of it. I think it turned out really nice.


And my mom and I picked out a pattern for a new purse for me to make for her. I'm nervous but excited to make it.



All in all. Pretty swell Saturday.

-Sara

Sewing, Sewing and more sewing.

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So I've totally been procrastinating on starting so many sewing projects. I'm just really good at procrastinating. I think it's the cutting of the fabric. I just don't care for that part. BUT I love every other part of sewing. So I'm just going to suck it up and cut the fabric.

My sewing to-do list:
-2 bags for my mom's coworker's granddaughters (getting $$ for this one!)
-a bag for my mother
-(very)late Mother's Day present for my mom (not gonna list what it is just in case she reads this)
-put straps on this dress I have (details in new post)
-an organizer for random stuff for the front of my notebook
-boxes/organizers for my embroidery draw
-curtains for my room

There is probably some other things I want/need to make too. I'm gonna go get on it right now.

-Sara

Weight Watchers Update

So I totally meant to post this yesterday. I just get distracted easily. Oops.

Anyways. Yesterday was my first Weight Watchers meeting. I'm not going to lie it was kind of boring. Ha. But I knew that already. I learned about the PointsPlus system too. I guess it's good. I'm just not looking forward to forgetting everything I knew about the old point system and relearning the new way. But it's whatever.

I found out that I get 38 points daily. Which sounds like a lot. But again. Gotta forget all I knew about the old point system. I used them all up and didn't go over! Yay for me!!

I took a before picture yesterday but it's still on my phone and honestly I'm just too lazy to load it. Ha.

Oh Adele

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I absolutely love Adele. Her voice is just beautiful, her songs come straight from mine and every women who has been in a relationship heart and I love that she isn't like miss skinny Hollywood looking lady. She looks like a real women. Love it. This post is dedicated to her!

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oh man I love her hair!

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this has to be one of my favorite lines ever. it is way too true.

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