Blogging, Crafting and Thrifting..

January has come and gone in a blur. I had great crafty plans for the month but it did not happen. The yucky sicky hit the house and a sick two year old and husband at the same time is awful. I managed to not get the tummy troubles Raylan had or the cold Ben had, but as I type this I have sinus headache and stuffy nose.


I wanted to get a jump on ornaments for this years swaps and Cotton Gin but it didn't happen. I did finish a skirt for Madalyn. I wish I had taken a pic. It was super cute with foxes.


The thing I did the most last month was thrift shopping and it was awesome. I have picked up around 20 new skirts and got a bag full of shirts for $5.00. I have been inspired by Kelly Rae Robert's wear your joy project. I love that I might not be creating art but I can be creative and expressed in the clothes that I wear. I have always loved skirts and cute dresses but before I lost weight I just felt frumpy and sad looking. So the new thinner me is loving wearing skirts and dresses. I also have become more confident within myself and I wear and do what makes me happy and worry less about what others may think. The really cool thing is have gotten many compliments  on my outfits while out in public and plenty of likes on my Instagram.


This month I have challenged myself to wear a skirt a day and try to make it a different skirt. Doesn't it take 21 days to form a habit? Maybe I will not want to wear jeans again. I was telling my mom about my skirt a day challenge and said, "I'm not wearing pants all month." This however did not sit well with my three year old nephew. He said, "What MooMoo you not wear pants?" So I explained what skirts were, but he still thought I was just going pantless.


I am still in PJ's right not like I as I have a headache and feel yucky  but if  I leave the house today I will put on a skirt and take a pic. Doing this and the wear your joy project really helps keep me out of a rut of comfy clothes since some days I just stay here and tend to the house.


This month I really need to kick into crafty gear and get a jump on swaps and preparing for CGD in October...sounds far off but it gets here quicker and quicker it seems every year.

Terrible at Blogging

Here it is January 3rd, 2014 and my last post was January 2, 2012 and in that post I talked about how I  wanted to be better and consistent at blogging. Ha can you say epic fail. Oh yeah another year and another attempt.

I have so many creative goals for this year. I did spend New Year's Day stitching and working on a piece for my studio. However the last two days have been spent cuddling with Raylan who has a stomach bug.

I also want to have a word for the year and when I started thinking about this the word  JOY kept popping up.  I do need to find more JOY and stop being so stressed. Then the word FOCUS comes up. I need to FOCUS on the goals, ideas and tasks I have and want to do. The word CONSISTENT is needed if I want to be successful at fulfilling the meaning of the other words. So the first year I decide to choose a word I come up with three!  So if I put the all together in would work out to be Consistent Focus will be Joy...yes I think that will be it for 2014.

Okay I have put it out there in the blogging world my intentions for 2014....let's see how well I do.