Posted by taneya on January 12, 2006 under Uncategorized | 3 Comments to Read

New Year’s Resolution – well, I made a resolution last year that I unfortunately did not keep. My resolution was to stay on top of important events like anniversaries, birthdays, etc and send REAL cards to people. I also wanted to be more prompt in returning personal emails. Well, I think I did a little bit better, but nowhere near where I want to be. Therefore, it remains a resolution for me this year.

Over the past week, I have also set another resolution. I refuse to live in clutter. I am determined to get my housekeeping skills in order this year. Now that I am actually living with Kalonji and we are a “real” family – I find that the clutter builds so easily! It is too easy to make excuses for picking up and putting things away where they should be. Not anymore. Slowly but surely I have been de-cluttering, making a pile for Goodwill and getting the house in order. I have done well in spending a few minutes a couple times a day to tidy up and put things away and I’m very proud of myself. Must keep up the progress!

My Body-For-Life is going well. I’ve completed 7 days now and been true to the program 95% of the time . Of course you can read more about that on my other blog. However, b/c I am constantly reading and researching fitness/health information, I have not stitched as much the past week. But, I do have a few overdue pictures to share:

• Handmade Houses of Provence – by Michael Powell. I started this back at the end of October and fell in love with it. There are five different “panels” to stitch that make a composite pictures. The threads are in Anchor, so I actually had to go buy some as I have only done one other project with Anchor. While I was initially excited, the colors in the particular area I am working on are not exactly appealing to me. However, I do love the design so much, that I have no doubt I’ll be back to this again in a few months.
• Feline Navidad — yeah, this was supposed to be a Christmas present. I’m close! Maybe this weekend will be it. The recipient will not mind though – I know she won’t.
• Day - this design is by Maria Van Scharrenburg. I love her patterns and I initially started this back in March 2004. Then, I put it down and didnt’ touch it again until a few weeks ago. This is the design I was working on when I found out I was pregnant with Kaleya. The night I started it, I was over at a friend’s day for a stitch day and I remember them joking with me about being pregnant b/c I was telling them how tired I had been lately. They were so right!

Posted by taneya on January 8, 2006 under Uncategorized | Read the First Comment

Happy New Year! Yes, I’m like 10 days late with it, but it’s been a busy time. Over New Year’s weekend we went to go visit the boys. Had a lot of fun with them. Kaleya of course just had a ball seeing them all again. Here is a cute picture of her in front of my mother-in-law’s Christmas tree.

Stitching wise, I have been stitching on MVS’s Day (butterfly). I don’t have a new progress pic yet, but that was what I worked on a majority of the past two weeks. Then, a couple of days ago I switched to Feline Navidad. I still haven’t finished it (and yes, it was a Christmas present), but I should be able to finish it within two weeks — I ran out of a kreinik that I now have to order online, so it should be here next week sometime.

However, a lot of my time these past few days has been absorbed by my new endeavor. I’m doing Body For Life now and I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I changed by South Beach Diet blog to become by Body For Life blog to track my daily progress. So far, I think I am doing very well on it. I was not as interested in South Beach b/c I was already getting bored of the food options in phase I and I really wanted to get started exercising. Since I wanted to exercise, I wanted to exercise with a purpose. BFL really is almost like SBD,just with a some intense exercise added. Today will be my 4th day on it and all is going well.