Yep that's how I feel. The diet has come to an end as my eating habits are way out of control - I have eaten 4 Easter eggs this week alone! I put on 1lb at slimming this week and I know it will be more next week as my size 14 trousers are tight now!
I called my target at SW on Monday night. 11 stone 11lb - its far too heavy to stop there but as I have lost the plot completely now - think its time to step back - try and maintain !!!! and then get back on track to loose the remaining 2 stone when I am in a more positive frame of mind.
I feel really sad that I have not been able to carry on and feel rather weak willed, but I should look at the positive - I have lost 5 stone and 3lb so I should be pleased with my self - but all I can see is it all going back on because I just cannot control my eating. I really thought that because I had been so good for 6 months that I had re-educated myself - but clearly once a greedy pig always a greedy pig!
I have come to the conclusion that I am like a man - I can only do one thing at a time. before christmas when I was unable to do any scrapping I was unable to devote all my ebergies to loosing weight and going to the gym. But since my mother moved out and I have had my crafting room back I have been in a scrapping frenzy - much to the neglect of exercise and
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
What a busy weekend
we had, but it was great.
We went to Sheffield Saturday morning and it only took about 2 hours of an easy drive to get there. The toll road took a good chunk of the journey away.We parked in Nunnery park & ride and took the quick tram journey into the town. I have never been to Sheffield before and it was really nice - not a grimey industrial town I had visions of. Liam liked it so much - that I have ordered a prospectus from Hallam University as he would like to go there for a computing degree. Eleanor came up on the train from Liverpol and we met Jess at Ponds Forge pool - we watched her swim and she did so well - she is a fantastic swimmer. She achieved good times so she was pleased. One boy on her team achieved such a good time that he can enter the Olympic trials!
Jess has the orange hat on.
On Sunday we went to Oxford and tried to park in their park & ride but gave up as the last bus ran at 19.00hrs and Liam's concert did not finish until 23.00hrs- so we paid £8 to park in St Clements. We mooched around the shops and I managed to buy a Creating Keepsakes and a craft mag from the same stable from Borders. Thats the first time I have ever found one in there. I also bought a Making Memories scrapbooking book - all abou design and how to improve layouts and after my last few disaters - a book I sorely need! To pass the time and get out of the cold - it was bitter and it did not get above freezing all day, we went to the cinema and watched Juno - about a teenage pregnancy. It was a nice film - entertaing and very well acted. Then, as we stll had hours to wait for the boys we went for a meal in Nandos up Cowley road. The boys came out at 11.15 and we got home about 1.30 - shattered. I did try and read some of my Creating keepsakes mag - but managed about 2 pages before I crashed out!
After my weekend away and eating out at fast food places - Nando's, Subway, Fried potaoe wedges and Mayo in Sheffield and other snacks - I had not lost any weight on Monday night - I had stayed the same. I was dissapointed but knew why - I must try and get back on the straight and narrow but my choclate craving is really stong at the moment and I am struggling to control it.
We went to Sheffield Saturday morning and it only took about 2 hours of an easy drive to get there. The toll road took a good chunk of the journey away.We parked in Nunnery park & ride and took the quick tram journey into the town. I have never been to Sheffield before and it was really nice - not a grimey industrial town I had visions of. Liam liked it so much - that I have ordered a prospectus from Hallam University as he would like to go there for a computing degree. Eleanor came up on the train from Liverpol and we met Jess at Ponds Forge pool - we watched her swim and she did so well - she is a fantastic swimmer. She achieved good times so she was pleased. One boy on her team achieved such a good time that he can enter the Olympic trials!
Jess has the orange hat on.
On Sunday we went to Oxford and tried to park in their park & ride but gave up as the last bus ran at 19.00hrs and Liam's concert did not finish until 23.00hrs- so we paid £8 to park in St Clements. We mooched around the shops and I managed to buy a Creating Keepsakes and a craft mag from the same stable from Borders. Thats the first time I have ever found one in there. I also bought a Making Memories scrapbooking book - all abou design and how to improve layouts and after my last few disaters - a book I sorely need! To pass the time and get out of the cold - it was bitter and it did not get above freezing all day, we went to the cinema and watched Juno - about a teenage pregnancy. It was a nice film - entertaing and very well acted. Then, as we stll had hours to wait for the boys we went for a meal in Nandos up Cowley road. The boys came out at 11.15 and we got home about 1.30 - shattered. I did try and read some of my Creating keepsakes mag - but managed about 2 pages before I crashed out!
After my weekend away and eating out at fast food places - Nando's, Subway, Fried potaoe wedges and Mayo in Sheffield and other snacks - I had not lost any weight on Monday night - I had stayed the same. I was dissapointed but knew why - I must try and get back on the straight and narrow but my choclate craving is really stong at the moment and I am struggling to control it.
Saturday, 16 February 2008
My latop has returned- again!
Yes its back - wonder how long for this time?
Ross has gone back to PGL so I have started tidying up my craft room and have set up my laptop there and aim to set up my new scanner next to it so that I can start scanning in all my mother's old slides and turn them into digital photos - i think it will be a huge job.
I finished this DLO that I started at the crop - you know some layouts just work and you love them - well I don't think this one works - I don't know why - perhaps the odd green colour - but I am not particulary fond of these 2. I think it may also be a huge variation in the colours from the photos - they don't seem to be similar - so the brain is being bamboozelled with too much information. Perhaps I should have turned the photos to B & W
I have also finished this layout that I statred about 4 weeks ago at a Scrapz instructiob class on Bazzill institches. This was done using Bazzill already perforated cardstock and I just stitched around the stars - again - I don't particulary love this layout either! Will try using some of the other templates on a layout and see if I can improve on some other layouts!
These layouts have taken my target up to 37 already!
We have a busy weekend planned - up to Sheffield today to see Jessica - she is swimming in a gala there and has missed us all so much that she can't wait for Easter to see us. Then Sunday, off to Oxford for the day - Liam and Howard have tickets for a concrt - but can't get back - they were going to sleep on the railway station again ( like they did in Manchester!!) but its not a good idea so Steven said we could go down for the day and bring them back. It will be quite nice to spend the day there again - but So its going to be a busy weekend and no scrapping done.
Ross has gone back to PGL so I have started tidying up my craft room and have set up my laptop there and aim to set up my new scanner next to it so that I can start scanning in all my mother's old slides and turn them into digital photos - i think it will be a huge job.
I finished this DLO that I started at the crop - you know some layouts just work and you love them - well I don't think this one works - I don't know why - perhaps the odd green colour - but I am not particulary fond of these 2. I think it may also be a huge variation in the colours from the photos - they don't seem to be similar - so the brain is being bamboozelled with too much information. Perhaps I should have turned the photos to B & W
I have also finished this layout that I statred about 4 weeks ago at a Scrapz instructiob class on Bazzill institches. This was done using Bazzill already perforated cardstock and I just stitched around the stars - again - I don't particulary love this layout either! Will try using some of the other templates on a layout and see if I can improve on some other layouts!
These layouts have taken my target up to 37 already!
We have a busy weekend planned - up to Sheffield today to see Jessica - she is swimming in a gala there and has missed us all so much that she can't wait for Easter to see us. Then Sunday, off to Oxford for the day - Liam and Howard have tickets for a concrt - but can't get back - they were going to sleep on the railway station again ( like they did in Manchester!!) but its not a good idea so Steven said we could go down for the day and bring them back. It will be quite nice to spend the day there again - but So its going to be a busy weekend and no scrapping done.
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
just half a lb loss
-but at least it is a loss. Have been feeling very un-motivated lately and sneaking in chocolate here and there so I am pleased with this loss and hope it will get me back on the straight and narrow. Just another 4lb to go to get me to my 5 1/2 stone award. Now before I could have done that in a week - but at this rate it will take me months! Actually there are 3 weeks left in February - wonder if I should set myself this target to get there? Apparently we suceed more when we have targets to aim for.
Liam is back from Berlin and took some photos but many of the same thing - so I don't think he will have enough to make a photo book from photobox like I was hoping he would. His friend Andy however is great photographer - there are pics of him with his DSLR cannon camera so I have asked Liam if he could let us have a copy of them and then we might have enough.
I rang yesterday for an update on my laptop - apparently they have all the parts needed so I should have it back by the end of the week - well we shall see - but I am not holding my breath.
lots of jobs to do today - must post the valentine cards & chocolates to the girls. get Ross sorted for going back to PGL tomorrow. have a pedicure booked - with the voucher from Nicky for my birthday! Carry on cleaning - I did the dinning room yesterday and chucked out hundreds of tape cassettes that have been lying around for years - unused. We have a huge collection of mini discs - which we still listen to at home and in the car - but I am wondering if there is a way of moving them onto an MP3 player which is the way music seems to be going now.
Having a break from scrapping now - Liams album has scrapped me out! I have now done 32 pages out of my yearly target of 52 - perhaps I should double it and aim for 104 = 2 layouts a week? Any way I am going to give my craft room a proper tidy up when Ross goes and then open my new scanner and start to scan in all mums old slides and negatives - well when I get my laptop back! Then I need to sort out my photos and start to choose some for some more layouts as I have not got any in mind at the moment. So even though I won't be creating - I will be preparing! I have an all day crop in a few weeks time 2nd March I think so need to have something to do there!
Liam is back from Berlin and took some photos but many of the same thing - so I don't think he will have enough to make a photo book from photobox like I was hoping he would. His friend Andy however is great photographer - there are pics of him with his DSLR cannon camera so I have asked Liam if he could let us have a copy of them and then we might have enough.
I rang yesterday for an update on my laptop - apparently they have all the parts needed so I should have it back by the end of the week - well we shall see - but I am not holding my breath.
lots of jobs to do today - must post the valentine cards & chocolates to the girls. get Ross sorted for going back to PGL tomorrow. have a pedicure booked - with the voucher from Nicky for my birthday! Carry on cleaning - I did the dinning room yesterday and chucked out hundreds of tape cassettes that have been lying around for years - unused. We have a huge collection of mini discs - which we still listen to at home and in the car - but I am wondering if there is a way of moving them onto an MP3 player which is the way music seems to be going now.
Having a break from scrapping now - Liams album has scrapped me out! I have now done 32 pages out of my yearly target of 52 - perhaps I should double it and aim for 104 = 2 layouts a week? Any way I am going to give my craft room a proper tidy up when Ross goes and then open my new scanner and start to scan in all mums old slides and negatives - well when I get my laptop back! Then I need to sort out my photos and start to choose some for some more layouts as I have not got any in mind at the moment. So even though I won't be creating - I will be preparing! I have an all day crop in a few weeks time 2nd March I think so need to have something to do there!
Friday, 8 February 2008
busy scrapping Liam's year album is finished!
Wow what a productive week - I have finished Liam's year album. I have done all the month pages as double page layouts and added a front title page and a final word page at the back. I am so pleased with it. It has taken a year of thinking about and trying to collect photos for etc. and a few weeks now making it up - but it is a task I am glad I have done. just hope that Liam will appreciate it.
Here are a few pics - will add a slide show later.
I have tried to follow a similar theme throughout so black base card with patterened paper and matching Bazzill stitched to base. 2 photos on LHS - 1 5x7 and the other 6x4. Journalling and rub ons on RHS and more photos of different sizes to fit in around the journalling etc. The rub ons were very expensive but I think they have made the link throughout the pages.
I dread to think how much it will all have cost.
£15 for the album - DCWV rocker.
12 pages of karen Foster calender pages at 80p each = £9.60
12 packs of matching Karen foster rub ons at £3.80 each = £45.60
12 pages of matching Bazzill cardstock - I actually bought 2 of each colour in case I made a mistake - so 24 at 50p each = £12
24 black Bazzill cardstockplus about another 6 for matting, as I did not gut all of the pages when I sewed them together. 30 x 50p = £15.00
Black Gutterman sewing thread £5.00
Herma refils - I got through at least 4 of these = £10
Photographs and printer ink and paper. I ordered hundreds of photos from Photobox - but of course when I started I needed lots of different sizes, so I had to print loads more out at home - smaller or larger = perhaps £30.
Oh my goodness that comes to £142!!!
just thought about white journalling card stock and postage for all the goods from UKS sponsers - so I expect all in all it comes to about £150 and that does not include my time!
I have just added 24 pages to my 8 total so far - so have done 32 pages out of my target of 52 for the year - nearly reached it by February!
Here are a few pics - will add a slide show later.
I have tried to follow a similar theme throughout so black base card with patterened paper and matching Bazzill stitched to base. 2 photos on LHS - 1 5x7 and the other 6x4. Journalling and rub ons on RHS and more photos of different sizes to fit in around the journalling etc. The rub ons were very expensive but I think they have made the link throughout the pages.
I dread to think how much it will all have cost.
£15 for the album - DCWV rocker.
12 pages of karen Foster calender pages at 80p each = £9.60
12 packs of matching Karen foster rub ons at £3.80 each = £45.60
12 pages of matching Bazzill cardstock - I actually bought 2 of each colour in case I made a mistake - so 24 at 50p each = £12
24 black Bazzill cardstockplus about another 6 for matting, as I did not gut all of the pages when I sewed them together. 30 x 50p = £15.00
Black Gutterman sewing thread £5.00
Herma refils - I got through at least 4 of these = £10
Photographs and printer ink and paper. I ordered hundreds of photos from Photobox - but of course when I started I needed lots of different sizes, so I had to print loads more out at home - smaller or larger = perhaps £30.
Oh my goodness that comes to £142!!!
just thought about white journalling card stock and postage for all the goods from UKS sponsers - so I expect all in all it comes to about £150 and that does not include my time!
I have just added 24 pages to my 8 total so far - so have done 32 pages out of my target of 52 for the year - nearly reached it by February!
Saturday, 2 February 2008
fab crop today
I went to a lovely crop today run by Anne & Caroline for Scraptz. This is the second one of theirs that I have been to and have enjoyed them both as some lovely ladies attend and I get to see some fab work from the others. I also get help and ideas with my work as everyone else can see what I can't.
I took Liam's year album that I have come to a standstill with. I knew it wasn't working which is why I had stopped - but Mary Lou suggested matching up the bright Karen Foster papers with some plain card stock instead of the black that I was trying unsucessfully to use. Thankfully Caroline & Anne bring along plenty of Bazzill cardstock so I was able to take all 12 month pages up and match them up perfectly - so feel inspired to start again with it. Trouble is I ran out of black sewing thread tonight as I was sewing around the edges - so can't do any more until I can get some tomorrow.
The morning class was a technique class making a paperbag album - I have never done one of these before and it was fun - though mine is not finished - but I have the ideas of what to do - next week is going to be busy craft wise.
Some girls are going to the NEC in March to the craft show - I had not considered it before but think I might request the day off so that I can go if I fancy it.
I took Liam's year album that I have come to a standstill with. I knew it wasn't working which is why I had stopped - but Mary Lou suggested matching up the bright Karen Foster papers with some plain card stock instead of the black that I was trying unsucessfully to use. Thankfully Caroline & Anne bring along plenty of Bazzill cardstock so I was able to take all 12 month pages up and match them up perfectly - so feel inspired to start again with it. Trouble is I ran out of black sewing thread tonight as I was sewing around the edges - so can't do any more until I can get some tomorrow.
The morning class was a technique class making a paperbag album - I have never done one of these before and it was fun - though mine is not finished - but I have the ideas of what to do - next week is going to be busy craft wise.
Some girls are going to the NEC in March to the craft show - I had not considered it before but think I might request the day off so that I can go if I fancy it.
