15th Work-out Wednesday

Here are my stats:
Height: 5'4
Beginning Measurements

• Around the Belly: 39 in. (47 in. 38 weeks pregnant with my daughter in April- I was only 45 in. with my son, but I weighed almost 10 lbs. more)
• Waist: 38in.
• Around my bottom: 40.25 in.
• Upper Arm: 12.25 in.
• Inner Thigh: 23.5 in

Goal: flatter tummy - 34 in. around my belly (so I don't look pregnant still when I wear my pre-pregnancy shirts), 130 lbs. by the New Year (have to leave room for the holidays =D).

Ideally would love to be 120-125 again and 30-32 in again.

Pre-pregnancy: 131 lbs. Gained 36 lbs. when pregnant:  167 lbs. (had my baby April 19, 2011) Beginning weight: 147 lbs.

Today's Weight: 133lbs. so I'm almost there. I'm doing pretty well I think.


Today's Measurements: now to work on getting these numbers down more!

• Around the Belly: 37 in. - same
• Waist: 36 in. - lost 1/2 in.
• Around my bottom: 37.5 in. - lost .75
• Upper Arm: 11.25 in. - lost 1/4 in.
• Inner Thigh: 22 in - same

I guess Halloween didn't mess me up too much. I've been trying to do some crunches and some more dancing when I'm cleaning.

Halloween Costumes 2011 Mini Tutorials - Peter Pan themed

Captain Hook costume
I found a red coat at DI (Deseret Industires - thrift store).

I bought some white ruffles and gold trim. Since this coat was really thick and I'm not an expert sewer, I used velcro that I had and put pieces inside the wrists and across the chest to place the ruffles.

Captain Hook Hat
a friend mentioned how important the Captain Hook's hat was so I decided against the $1 store kids pirate hat I was originally going to use (now it can just be for dress up) and figured out how to make my own hat.
I took cardboard and cut a large oval and then cut a hole in the middle to fit an adult head.
Then I took one of my son's old turtleneck onesies (3T - so it would be hard for him to wear now that he's potty trained) and cut it to cover the cardboard. My husband is 6'4 so once I covered one side pretty well; I figured most people won't see the top of his head. I used a combination of hot glue and craft glue...craft glue did better with so much fabric being used.

For the feather, I cut a piece of cardboard, covered it in white felt and added slits to the side. I had some small white feathers on hand so I covered it with that too.

Wendy

I took my old hospital gown and pinned down the neckline then sewed so you couldn't see the brown so much and then added a big blue ribbon around my waist.

Peter Pan

I found a dark green thermal underwear set at DI and cut that up zig zag style. I used the scraps to make the hat. I sewed these two pieces together (from the bottom of the shirt and the bottom of a pant leg.)

In the end, I didn't use the pants bottoms because Peter Pan wears more like tights for his bottoms. I figured if it was snowing though, I'd have him wear those over his others. His bottoms are just pjs pants from Old Navy. I got the pink sword at DI for 50 cents....I wanted to spray paint it a better color, but with being gone before Halloween, didn't get a chance. The brown belt is also from DI probably like $1.

TinkerBell

She was the inspiration for our costumes. I have been obsessed with lime green and hot pink so when I saw the lime green tutu dress at Crafty Moms, I bought it along with some other stuff during her FB deals. When I looked at it again later, I was like my baby girl can be TinkerBell! I put another lime green tutu underneath to make it more full. Then she wore tights and lime green pants to keep warmer underneath. I found the green fairy wings at the $1 store! I also found a glow stick wand at the $1 store too, but didn't get any pictures with it.

I was so happy with the outcome! I was especially impressed with how well I did with Captain Hook! We'll have to use these costumes again!

Let me know if you have any questions about this and I'd be happy to answer!

55th Mommy Mondays

I know I haven't done Mommy Mondays in forever! Every time I thought of ideas to share for this, I would forget them when time to blog about it. Oops! Lately again, I feel like I can't catch up with life: cleaning, finances, etc. so I've been down on myself not feeling like a great mom.

Here's some funny things my son says.
"That's what I said Mom" - He's not 3 yet (end of the month) so sometimes it's hard for me to understand him so when I mess up first and then understand next, this is what he says.
When did your kids start saying Mom instead of Mommy? It made me really sad when this happened! It started probably about 3-4 months ago.

Yesterday, I tried telling my son about the difference between he and she. He knows the difference between boys and girls easily, but has been calling his sister and he and brother so we have to work on that still.
Anyway, I asked him what his sister was after I told him a girl is a she and he said, "He's a she." =D
LOL! We'll keep working on it. He knows the difference between I/me great.
We can't believe he'll be 3 on the 30th! It has been really making me sad when I think about it. I handled turning 2 easily, but 3, I keep getting teary-eyed!

This little girl is 6 months old now! She won't crawl, probably because she doesn't really like being on her stomach. She'll go back to sitting position by herself when she's on all fours. She prefers to scoot on her bottom everywhere! When she is on her tummy, she'll turn and go backwards. It's funny to watch.

70th Fashionable Fridays

Here's what we wore to our family photos. Thank you Dash Photography! Check out her FB page too.

I made the hairpieces and the fabric necklace for my baby girl.

Here's what we were for Halloween!
I made Captain Hook's hat, altered a red coat, made Peter Pan's hat, altered his shirt, altered my dress and bought accessories: ribbon, swords, hooks, wings...
Inspiration for the costumes was my daughter's tutu dress. I bought it because I've been addicted to lime green and hot pink and figured it looked like Tinkerbell =D

Come back next week and I'll give you the details on how I made my headpiece, fabric necklaces and costumes! =D

Link up your fashion, hair, make-up, Halloween costumes, etc.

Shutterfly Holiday Cards

Here are my favorite holiday greetings from Shutterfly this year!

I'm loving the photo Christmas cards! This one you can have it in 5x5 or 5x7! I think the colors would work well with our family pictures we just took (see what we wore to them on tomorrow's Fashionable Fridays!).

 This one is also fun. You know I've been addicted to hot pink and lime green!

I'll be needing some of these Thank You cards this year after my son's birthday party at the end of the month! Most are on sale right now for 74 cents a piece! I'm liking the Cherry Red one to go with the Ghostbusters theme we're doing for my son's party, but the choo choo trains and dump trucks ones they have are also so fun! I always love photos on cards too to help you remember someone.

I love Shutterfly! I use them all the time! Lately I've been using them to send birthday cards to family with pictures of my kids. Plus they'll address and ship the card for you for just 99 cents! Saves me a lot of time! Shutterfly always has amazing promotions like getting free greeting cards and photo books or big discounts of 30% off and Free Shipping. I'm always impressed with their quality. If you haven't tried them, I would check them out now!