Just a slight make-over :)

Well as you can see, I have given my little blog a bit of a makeover.
I am not completely happy with the look, but it will do for until I have more time to make it more mine.

Here are a few pictures to show what I have been up to lately.

Some hats I have crocheted:

Some headdresses I made for a friend in England to help raise funds for her Daycare Centers.

Some of my most recent beads

And some shawls and scarves I have crocheted:

It has been a while, but its time to get up to date again :)

So much has happened since I last posted to my blog.
Got divorced, moved into a place of my own with the girls, met a wonderful man.
Been doing lots of crafts as I am jobless at this moment in time.
Making beads, crocheting, sewing, gaming, working out...

I will update things here soon.
Now that I can log into it all again.

My Muse came home...

Finally! She has returned!
My friend Maria showed me a site of amazing artwork by FABIO J NAPOLEONI. His stuff is cute, has lots of feeling and yes some of it is dark, but it makes you just want to reach into the drawing and hug them. After viewing his artwork, my muse decided to come back, after seeing the amazing colour combinations and things to do, she decided it was time to come home to mama!
Yes... now all I need is the time to get at the torch! Think I might go turn it on now!

One of my many favourites of his drawings:

Pinkie Swearers!

So far so good! 5 days into the diet and I haven't caved, and after having a few trying times this week I'm really proud of myself.
Now I just have to get back to my beadmaking!
Where is my muse?
Has anyone seen her?

She has wild firey hair, tends to wear blue/green watery type clothes, and has these most gorgeous wings, they remind me a lot of the artist Amy Brown's Fairy Wings. The top is firey like her hair and the bottom wings are watery colours! I miss her! If you see her, please send her home!

Pinkie swear...

I have pinkie sworn with my friend Heather.
From today right this moment. Health time! Diet and workouts.
I will be starting a new job as of 1 September and I will be going to a gym as of August 28th. Its a place I felt comfortable at, and they have a sauna to help relax muscles after your workout. So I will be doing this to improve my body. No one has told me I have to do this, and I am doing it for myself. In fact one guy at a place a work told me point blank that there was NOTHING wrong with me. Course I can't take his opinion as non-biased his wife is a big woman too. He did give me another compliment though, telling me I did not look as heavy as I am. He guessed I was 105 kilos for which I am 126 kilos. When I get down to 105 kilos I think I'll give him a big thank you.

Life has been busy busy busy...
Kids are now a week back in school and me a week back at work.
I don't really want to be, but have to put food on the table for the kids and healthy food for me.

Breakfast - 750 ml water, one nectarine, one banana, cup of green tea with a teaspoon of local beekeeper honey.

Back after a month...

of not posting. I had gotten really good into my diet, then had a bad week. A really bad week... talk about stress eating to make the bears eating for hibernation embarrassed...

So now its back on the bandwagon time!

This morning a banana and a glass of water. Now as I sit typing this I am eating a handful of grapes and 5 strawberries with a cup of green tea with orange and mint, using local beekeeper honey for sweetening. The local honey is hopefully going to help me get over my hayfever. Right now it is terrible and I don't want to spend my life taking medicines to be able to survive. I know it will take a while to take effect, but I'm willing to try anything that will help.

Today's lunch will be two slices of dark brown, multi-grain bread with pesto and goat's cheese, with some cucumber and tomato on the side. Prolly a glass of juice and water to go with it.

I'll prolly have a snack of carrots or celery later in the afternoon.

Dinner will be Soup made from chestnut mushrooms, spinach, vermicelli, tofu and boullion and to go with it a homemade bread with olives, spring onions and sundried tomatos.

I really want this weight to go away and stay away!
All encouragement is great, my husband is supportive but has hit doubts about my willpower. My mom and sister are my biggest cheerleaders. Mom-in-law is supportive but doesn't believe I can do it.

But for now I am off to find my crimpers to work on my daughter's first communion rosary and jewelry.

Why is water so boring tasting?

I'm drinking my water like a good girl. But why is it everything else tastes so much better and water so bland and boring... It was really difficult today after the phone call from my boss telling me I can't have friday off, and getting a throbbing pounding headache. I did do some floor exercises, crunches, and stretching, but after my boss called, it was like instant, some button in my head said must have bad food, chocolate or candy corn or the junk food... it took a lot of will power to not raid the cupboard...

my head still hurts and water still tastes bland and boring, but I am just thinking about my goal. The faster I get to my goal the better it is for me, my body, my family, and I can get my reward. :D

Clean slate...

Time to start over again, after the past month of being sick, it is time to get started on my diet again.
I weighed in this morning, luckily I haven't gained back the 5 kilos I had lost before, so I am good to continue on from here. I have a goal now too, and it is something I've wanted for many years.

Bead making has been on the back burner as well for the last month, but now I am getting some energy back and taking my life back into my control so I will be able to get more of them made. Good news on that front, I have been approved to sale via ebay here, so I can soon start listing beads on my own. Which is a good thing cause then I don't have to worry if anyone else has time when I do and such, so if I don't post, its my fault and no one elses. Have to do some research still into delivery confirmation and costs and such outside of the netherlands, but I feel this is the only way I can safely and securely get things delivered to people.

Now off to do some stretches and crunches. I have to keep this up, cause hubby doesn't think I can do it. So, I'm gonna prove him wrong and do it.

Big hugs to anyone and everyone who needs them in their lives. Feel free at anytime to contact me, about anything.

Cleaning...

Oki I'm tired of the mess. There is so much stuff in this little house its not funny. TOO much stuff. So I am working on it all now. What is no good, broken, missing parts, old is getting thrown out, the other stuff that has to have more looking into will get boxed in the attic until mid march when I have more time to go through, sort better, box things that can go to salvation army or something else. I wish they did yard sales here... i'd be having one thats for sure.

Anyways back to the cleaning...