Mildred the Bike

Heres my new bike! and yes there is mud on the tires!....she has been used...and more than once. dont give me that look!

GOALS!

ok here they are....please try and follow along!

a) lose 20 lbs! and be skinny!

b) post here for you fine people at least once a week...feel free to post comments! help me reach my goals!

c) churn out one book every two weeks (if you dont know what this mean dont worry..you will soon!)

d) create one niche site a month...thats right! you'll get to see the work im doing too..i'll post them all here for ya!

and e) (bc...5 is a nice round number) ride my new bike (yay!) for 30 minutes a day ....5 days a week...rain or shine!

can't sleep!

ok so im supposed to be asleep right now bc i have to be up at 5 am to work. i even went to bed early just so i could get extra sleep b4 tomorrow morning...but i just cant sleep. my mind wont shut up about everything....mostly about how pathetic i have been in january. i havent done a single thing...TONS of planning....but nothing concrete. disgraceful!

SO!...i'v decided that enough is enough....seriously. my stomach is killing me tonight....another reason i cant sleep...but again my fault. ate too late and too much and i didnt go out and exercise as much as i needed to this week in order to feel better. so yea...i've had it...no more lazyness!

i really need to make some goals and hit them hard....now let me have a good think and i'll get back to you on those....

Fun and easy christmas tags

now we all know that christmas is fast approaching and we're all really concerned more about the gifts than the wrapping....but once you get all your holiday shopping done why now take a few extra minutes (5 to be exact) to spruce things up a bit? this is a great example that literally took me 5 minutes to do and cost me next to nothing to make. i started with some scrapbooking supplies that i already had laying around my craft box.

3 inches of twine
1 luggage tag
an old dictionary (falling apart)
stickers
elmers glue stick
and a black pen
..oh and my creativity!

so basically i looked through the dictionary for a word or phrase that would be appropriate for the gift i was giving. this one will be used for a ladies white elephant christmas party (these ladies meet regularly for a bible study every week)... so i chose the term good-fellowship.

i cut out the definition and and simply glued it to the luggage tag with the glue stick. this one in particular is great because it starts out dark blue and then dries clear. so if you've made any mistakes or put too much glue you can clean it up easily. then i just took some stickers that i had stashed away...these look like buttons. i used them just as a small embellishment to add some texture to the tag.

once everything was dry i wrote happy holidays on the tag and just embellished that a bit as well. this is where you get to be most creative. if your not artsy fartsy in the drawing department, you can simply use rub-on transfers...or even your computer!

last but not least i attached the twine to the luggage tag and then tied it onto the ribbon of my package.

remember this is just a very simple way to embellish your gifts and make it look like you put a lot of time and effort into your gifts ....even though you only spent 5 minutes! don't worry...i wont tell!

Can you pass me the tape?

ok so i came to write about my new idea for the shape of this blog and got distracted by another blog lol.....i'm like Hansel and Gretel following the links all over the internet. anyway...its been a bit difficult to really have a direction for this blog. when i started i wanted this to be about anything and everything. but.....random = good, boring = bad. ALAS! i have decided to showcase a few things here. mostly some things i have been working on. hobby/creative stuff....and i'd like to showcase some others as well.

when i have the time i'm a very crafty person (no not sneaky....think gluey and glittery!) its getting close to christmas too and its about to become craft central here. so i thought....what a great way/time to showcase some of the artsy stuff i do. basically sharing my creativity with the world! (dont you feel special?!)

TO DO.....

i never really look at the news when you first log into blogger but i glanced down tonight and saw the blog of note. it's sasha cagen's to do list blog. so i thought....ok lets have a peek just to see what it is. turns out she has now published a book of other people's to do list and the stories behind them.

i am an obsessive list maker myself...so much so that my boyfriend teases me constantly about it. i've always collected blank journals and notebooks whenever i find one i like. i save them and eventually they are all filled up with lists. i plan everything in these books from what to do that day/week/month to craft ideas, emails to return, groceries, phone calls, letters to friends that i never send....everything.

if your like me defiantly check this blog out. its so interesting (at least i think so lol) and its kinda cool to see what we all make lists about....and best of all you can see that your not the only one writing down strange things to do during your day!

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The colder weather seems to have brought more yucky-ness. i'm feeling a lot worse than i was last week. and now that i have hit a bit of a plateau with my work online, i'm feeling a bit lazy. a break never hurt anyone right?! or should i really be using my free time to press onward? i thought you might say that....so i have developed a plan of action for this week....now whether it gets done or not...meh...i guess we'll see. stay tuned!