What I wore today...and other, better stuff!

Ok, so it was yesterday, but still!

You know how all those cute YOUNG bloggers in their vintage dresses like to post their outfits on their blogs and outfit remix sites?

Well, not wanting to be left out, I thought I'd join in...

Don't hate...

Oh yeah, then I have to give a run down of where I got everything: Shirt- TJ Maxx.  It's one of those running shirts that wick the wetness off of you, I wore it in 04 when I adopted my daughter from the sauna known as China.  Pants: Meijer, terry cloth and too short and WAY too wide.  Sexy, I know!

 I decided I'd better just post Darling's outfits, cause even if I don't wear them, I must say: I can pick them!!

Jeggings!!

(Target: head to toe)

I'm going to live vicariously through her outfits...

This year I'm going to stick to my goal of taking pictures of what SHE wears all year!  I know I love to see what I wore as a kid in the 70's!

Ok, so you know how I never finish what I start and I always have 1,000 projects and 999 problems with said project?!  Well, I watched the video on how to use my sewing/embroidery machine and I FIXED the issue I was having and look what I got done!!!

(please note improved outfit today!!)

Yes, my friends, it went from this

to this

note: fancy stitching

Now, don't get all excited, it's not me, it's the machine!

The sewing machine I have is smarter then you and I combined and it cost more than my car (although that might not be saying much...).

It is beyond me and I do NOT deserve to have this machine, but I do...long story.

Off to the dentist...will my $25,000 smile ever be done?

DIY Projects and 401K's

I had a dream last week that i started a weekly DIY tutorial here on the blog... 

It was a cork board that was all decorated up with that sparkly glittery scalloped edge stuff teachers put on bulletin boards in the hall at school... you know what I mean?  Then over the cork I put this HORRIBLE ugly vintage baby gift wrap that was just butt ugly and wrinkly and torn - I'm glad I woke up!  I felt bad for a few seconds after I woke up thinking I really had made that and scared you with it...

But, it did get me thinking.... now that i'm done (for a while?!) making my fake millions maybe I will do some DIY projects... but since I'm on "vacation" i'm not making any promises so don't plug in your glue guns just yet!

This was my "maybe I should do it" idea yesterday... this is as far as I got!

I was thinking a while back I'd love to have a little record of all the cute outfits Darling daughter wears.

I got the idea from another blogger who was taking a picture of her daughter everyday to record all her outfits from her Senior year of HS!  Oh would I love to have a picture of everything I wore back in 1987... then again, maybe not!  I thought it would be fun, but you know me... I kinda of forget to do it every day, but I'm trying. 

Monday 3-28-10 
My plan is to print them kind of small and make a little book every year of all her cute outfits.  I've also let myself take a break from my elaborate scrapbooks- getting them IN and ON paper is the goal now, embellishments can come later... or not!
who loves her new found freedom of not HAVING to do anything... well, I AM making myself walk everyday on that treadmill, but that's because I WANT to start doing some 5K road races, which are NOT to be confused with 401K's... and Lord knows I've done that before!  I think I've told that story before...
Yep, here it is from a much earlier post in case you missed it:
...After i had worked there (a horrible job where I sold carpet because they sucked me in with a sign that said "Designer WANTED") a couple years a note came down from the main office- there was going to be a 401K, well i can't tell you how excited i was, i'd been meaning to get into shape for quite a while. You see, i was a runner in HS & also in college, i ran after college, and ran for several years on a very regular basis until i bought my 1st house... there was always something to do & i was so excited (it was a REALLY cute house) to decorate that i gave up running for painting & landscaping. But now... there is this company 401K race & i'm IN!! So i start thinking of how i should start training & how i should find out who all is going to participate. A couple days later a memo comes out to let us know that there will be a staff meeting to discuss this 401K- WOW, i'm excited, i didn't know this was such a big deal at the ol' carpet store! I said to C "so are you going to run in that 401K?". If i remember right, i just got a weird look & maybe a laugh that i took as "yeah...right". About that time my boss came out of his office & came over by our desks, because, let's face it- he had to think the job was boring too & we were the FUN girls at the shop! I start asking Mr. Mgr if a lot of people participated in the 401K "yeah, i guess", he says. Then i ask "have they done this before?", again "yeah". Well, then i start down the slippery slope, because by now YOU have probably seen the error of my ways... I start saying how i better start training & i'm pretty out of shape & i hope i can find some good shoes in a size 5 (NOT easy to do). Now, Mr. Mgr & C are starting to chuckle & i, seriously, have NO idea why. I keep up the questions & am going on & on about racing & college cross country & all the things that are making me look like a complete BOOB! Mr. Mgr & C think i'm just being funny so they're really yucking it up until... they realize... i have NO IDEA what i am saying & that i truly believe i am preparing for the road race of my life, not a savings plan...
yeah, a proud moment for me! Oh well, what do i care? i would much rather be funny than brilliant & apparently....i'm in luck!!
Have a good Monday!!