Just me and my little blue sewing machine...

About a month ago, Kev and I decided it was time to change our diet. We'd been doing the vegetarian thing, but we weren't loving it. Kev listened to an audio book about the benefits of a low-carb diet, and we're both hooked. We've both lost weight (yay!) and are feeling great with our 4-5K walks that we do together each day. The problem? Hello? I bake a lot. And baked goods are basically carbs. Carbs mixed with sugar. Uh-oh. So what was I going to do for fun? My baking hobby was about to take a steep nosedive, and I was feeling a little antsy, needing a new creative outlet that wouldn't reduce my figure to that of an Oompa-Loompa in a few months time.

So what's a girl to do?

I bought a sewing machine.

I've been spending an hour or so a night playing with different fabrics, and I've decided to open my own Etsy shop where I can sell my little collection of handbags. I'm REALLY excited about this - seriously. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, and I need to be very careful not to start thinking about all the yummy fabrics I have sitting on the shelf in the studio. When I do that, my brain starts whirring, and it's all I can do to get back to sleep.
ANYWAY, I've made about 6 handbags so far, and the last two nights, I embarked into the world of the clutch purse. I'm GIDDY about the outcome. My favorite so far is a little clutch I made from some adorable fabric I found at JoAnne's - I might need to buy multiple bolts of this fabric, and just cover the whole house in it. It's fab.

Kevin has a Microsoft-something-or-rather meeting tonight, and so I'm going to go home and put on my favorite pair of ripped, paint-splattered, super-comfy jeans, steal one of Kev's super comfy college t-shirts from his drawer, and settle in for a nice evening of sewing. I'll also be catching up on my Glee. I know it's been inexcusably terrible lately, but it's like a train wreck, I can't help but watch it. Justin Beiber? Seriously? Are you guys scraping the bottom of the barrel?

Somebody has a case of the Mondays......

Yep. I'm suffering from a case of the Mondays. Have you ever seen Office Space? Remember that wayyy-too-perky redhead lady with the annoying voice who asks if someone has a case of the Mondays? I hope she doesn't show up today, because if she does I might have to be mean to her.

Maybe it's a result of the chicken wings I ate last night, after not eating meat for quite a while. Maybe it's the fact that I'm still fighting this funky annoying cold that has me chilly, and snifflin, and coughing. Maybe it's because I had wierd dreams about Muppets last night, and didn't sleep well. Either way, here's a list of things I'd like to be doing right now:

1. experimenting with a new purse pattern.
2. wearing my strawberry pajamas and snuggling deep below a pile of blankets watching a Disney movie.
3. getting a pedicure. It's the middle of winter, and my feet are scary.
4. making a batch of blueberry pancakes with lemon curd.
5. hanging out with my mom, who is also sick. Bummer.

Back to work. Email box is full, and I can only ignore it for so long....