Orange and purple flower hair clip

This is the hair clip that I just posted this morning.  You get two of them.  My daughter wears these with pig tails.  As you can see in the picture there is a bat brad holding it all together.
On the back there is a double pronged alligator clip.  They are very cute and just in time for Halloween. 

Come check it out at my store for the Orange and Purple Flower Hair Clip.  Share it with your friends.  Like it facebook and twitter.  They are very cute and so much fun.

Halloween table runners are progressing.

Do you ever have those days when you know you have stuff to do and really really don't want to do them?  Well I have them probably more often than I should.  Yesterday was one of them.  I knew I should work on my Halloween table runners but I didn't want to. 
Good news.  I worked on them anyways and am so glad I did.  I got all four of them sandwiched.  Today my goal is to get at least one of them ready for binding.  That means that today I need to get my free motion stitching foot out and set up so I can get lost in my free motion sewing.

If you have forgotten what the material looks like check this post.  I am hoping to get one posted by Friday if not sooner.  Keep checking back for the next set of hair clips I will be posting today.

Camping last weekend

With the weather playing nice for a few days we decided to go camping.  We are tent campers.  We set up and take down camp every time.  We arrange it how we want it every time we go.  We take the mattress that I covered earlier.  We took our pack in play for Yana.  Now that she crawls it is hard to put her down.

This is our tent.  I got this tent for Christmas before I ever met my husband.

This is the fire pit.  We had to fight over it with a gigantic wasp of some kind.  It must of had a home near it.  The blanket you see in the back ground is where Yana sat and played while we set up the tent.  Don't worry we didn't start the fire until after she was standing her crib.

 This is the rest of the stuff that we took with us.  My camp box, a cooler, food, water jug, propane tank, and a grill.

We took our volley ball with us and ended up kicking it around with Sarah Saturday after we had taken down most of our camp.  We are thinking about putting her in soccer.  She had so much fun.  We played for a while and then a couple campers from the camp in the background came over and played with us.  It was funny because I knew two of the campers from that camp.

We had so much fun.  We love to camp but don't want to melt doing so.  Hopefully when the weather cools down on a more permanent note we will go a lot.

Halloween Hair Clips

 Halloween is almost here!!! Yay.  These cute little hair clips were just posted to my store.  They are a duo.  They would work great with pig tails like in the picture.  If you have two girls you could split them up and they could each wear one.

They would be a great way to show your excitement for Halloween.

Please come check out the information on my store.  Share the information with your friends.  Halloween will be here before we know it.  Lets get ready!

Well I had an awesome run this morning.  I decided to push harder than usual.  Sometimes I think I'm just being wimpy and today I think I proved that to myself.  I ran my miles 30 seconds faster than I have been.  That may not seem like much but it is a lot for me.  It felt great.

This weeks exercise line up is the same as last weeks:

Monday - run and strength train - upper body
Tuesday - Bike and strength train - lower body
Wednesday - video or resting
Thursday - Run and upper body
Friday Bike and lower body
Saturday - long run

Last week I started out good.  I ran and then biked and then after Wednesday I didn't do anything really.  I still lost weight until the weekend.  I lost 2 pounds last week and then gained 1 on the weekend.  I really need to get control of my weekends if I want to see this weight come off a bit faster.

I feel good and I am working on it.  I just think I mentally got burnt out last week.

I found out over the weekend that a few more of my friends are training for the same race as I am and it had me a little embarrassed by my current running.  That is why I pushed today and I'm so glad I did.

If you haven't found a few minutes to exercise today I would encourage you to find a few minutes for yourself and get your heart beating a little faster.

Last hair clip of these colors for a while

My daughter sure does like to have her picture taken.  Here is the last clip of this color scheme for a while.  I will start posting fall and Halloween hair clips tomorrow.

This one is just a little smaller in diameter than the first two that I posted.  It is very cute.  Made with the same flowers and same alligator clip.  They never fall out of my daughters hair and she absolutely loves them.  She always wants a flower in her hair.

This one has a black looking jewel brad in the center.

It has three layers.  White on the bottom, red/maroon in the middle and a cream flower on top.

They are so easy to use and would make great gifts to your daughters just because you love them.  Christmas is also coming fast and will be here before you know it.  They would make great stocking stuffers as well.

I hope that you like them as much as I do.

Another cute hair clip

 I made several hair clips for Sarah with this color scheme.  We really like them but she only needs so many of this color.  This one is layered differently than the one I posted yesterday.  It doesn't have any cream flowers in it and it has a pearl looking brad holding it all together.

It also has the alligator clip.

I just posted it to my store so feel free to come look for more information.

I have another clip this color scheme that I'll post tomorrow Monday.  It is a little smaller.  Check back Monday for pictures when I post it.

After these are all posted I'll start posting my Halloween clips.

Just posted a Hair clip

A few weeks ago a friend showed me how to make these hair clips.  I have enjoyed making them so much that I have way too many for one child.  I have decided to start selling them on my store.  This one was just posted on my store.  www.IdahoAtHeart.etsy.com. 

It is a combination of 3 different flowers to get the look that it has.  The brad holding them all together is a star brad with a jewel in the center.  The clip is an alligator clip so it shouldn't slip.

My daughter loves these hair clips.  She almost always has one in her hair.  We usually pull her hair up in a pony tail and the puts it on tip of the pony tail.  In this picture it is just holding her hair in place and held well while she was posing for the pictures.

Come check out my store and see more information on this hair clip.  I'll post another one tomorrow.  Since they don't take that long to make and I can make them after my children are asleep I plan to make them regularly and post them on my store.

So confusing...

How many of you work really hard to eat right, exercise and just be healthy to watch the weight come off slowly?  Ok, so that is what I try to do.  I want to lose my weight the healthy way.  So yesterday was my rest day and we just bummed around.  I ate healthy but didn't really exercise.  I cuddled with my girls and then went to Mutual last night.

This morning I wasn't really excited to get on the scale but knew I better.  When I did was amazed at what it read.  I was down almost a whole pound. 

That is what I find consuming.  The days when I exercise I lose a few ounces at a time and the day when I relax I lose almost double.

Anybody have any ideas as to why that is?

I am going to head on over to "Budgeting During College" and post how I'm doing.  I hope that everyone has had a great week so far.  It is Thursday...which means it's almost the weekend and this week is my husband's flex day.

I think we might go camping.

200 prints for $1.99

I don't usually put a lot of savings information on my blog but I liked this one.  If you go to Kodak you can order 200 prints for $1.99 shipped.

You have to have an account.  I opened one today and uploaded my pictures.  The uploading the pictures part took a little bit of time but was so worth it.  After I had 200 pictures chosen I submitted it to order and it was going to be $30.  But I kept going.  I think it asked for my address first and then when going to the next step it showed the total as $1.99. 

Awesome to say the least.

I am now caught up for the year.  I don't print off very often and the last time I did was Christmas...just in time for the Christmas cards.

So if you need to print some pictures now would be a great time to do so.

Cake Decorating Course 2 - week 1

Last night was the first night of the second course.  We worked with Fondant and Gum paste.  It is the only time this course when we will work with it.  It was more just an introductory for us.  It was a lot of fun.  We made a button flower and a Pansy.
We made two of each.  Mine are all yellow and orange.  We also talked about Royal Icing.  We will be working with Royal Icing for the next 3 classes.

 We put them in these bowls to help shape them.  The bigger ones are a little bit more shallow.  The small one is deeper so the petals stand up more.

 The orange and yellow worked really well together.

 Pansies were a little harder for me to get them to ruffle.

These flowers I made today.  My friend wasn't able to come last night so she came over this morning and I went over everything from class last night.  I made some more and tried putting them on this shaper.  I think I might make some more and then make some cupcakes tomorrow to put them on.  They are a lot of fun.

In this course will learn a few other flowers and how to weave the icing on the cake to get the basket appearance.

I am so excited.  I think next month is the Tall Cakes class.  I think that would be awesome.  I'll keep you posted after each class.  I don't have to make a cake or anything until the last class.

Today's plans

Well I realize that the day is half over but here are our plans for today. 

This morning I slept in because Yana was up for 3 hours in the middle of the night.  I think she is teething but who knows.  So I slept in this morning and then watched my friends daughter so she could exercise.  Then she watched my kids so I could go for a run.  I ran for 30 minutes and it felt great.  That was my goal for today.  I would also like to do some upper body strength training this evening.

Right now Yana is sleeping so I'm getting some stuff done on the computer.  Then we will eat lunch.  After lunch I want to go sew.  I have the tops to two Halloween runners done and want to start on a third.  I would like to take some pictures of a couple hair clips to post on my store.  I'll let you know if I get that done.

Tonight I start the next class in my cake decorating classes.  I don't have to make a cake or anything until the last class so I'll just take pictures of the things I learn.  I am very excited.  We will learn about Royal icing and really cool flowers.

Well I need to get a move on.  I hope you all have a wonderful day.

You may have noticed the new badge on the left hand upper side of my blog.  Well I habve joined her blog in my goal to lose weight.  She is also trying to lose 20 pounds in 62 days.  She is trying to start a "community" for  people who are trying to lose weight the right way.  We can share our daily ups and downs and encourage each other in our goals.

If you would like to join us please feel to to click on her button/badge "Budgeting During College".  You will find this "community" unto "20 lbs in 62 days".

As for my weight loss journey...this weekend wasn't very kind.  I originally lost 3 pounds this last week and over the week have gained 1 pound back.  So in order to stay on track I need to lose my original two pounds this week. 

This week:

This morning I biked for 40 minutes and it felt great.
Tuesday:  Run - 30 minutes - strength train upper body
Wednesday - cardio video
Thursday - Bike 30 minutes - strength train lower body
Friday - Run - 30 minutes - strength train upper body
Saturday - Long bike ride (possible Dam Jam bicycle tour - 55 miles)
Sunday - Rest.

That is the plan.  I'll let you know if I stay on track.

Have a good rest of your Labor Day.

Goals

It is now September, holy cow time is flying so fast!  I set a goal during the last week in August that I wanted to lose 2 pounds by the 31st.  I set mini goals to help me reach this goal.

I would run 4 times and bike 3 times in the same week. 
I would eat healthy.
I would strength train.

Well it is the 2nd of September and I wanted to tell you that I achieved my main goal.  I lost two pounds by the 31st.  I didn't make all my mini goals.  I only ran 3 times and biked twice.  I did try to eat healthier and although I didn't strength train as much as I should have I did more than was before.

I have run and biked this week.  I have eaten healthy this week until today.  I have struggled to be good today.

I hope that you are all reaching your goals, whatever they may be.

Halloween Table Runners

A couple weeks ago I noticed the Halloween material at our local Hobby Lobby.  I decided that I should get a head start on the up coming holidays.  So I bought some.

I thought that they were very cute.  So now that the quilts that I was doing for a friend are done I can get back to my table runners.  I decided to cut up all the material and make the tops of as many table runners I can.  At that point I will cut out the backs, sandwich them and do the free motion stitching.  I'll take pictures as they get done and start posting them to my store.  When I run out of the material then that means it is time to start on Fall runners and so on and so forth.  I think I'll be able to get more done if I do it this way.
I finished the top of one today and started on another top.

Sewing during nap time is working out great.  It has been a lot of fun to sew again.  I love to see projects come together.

I hope you like them.  I'll let you know when I post them on my store.

Have a great afternoon.