Lent

No, not like the lint trap in the dryer.

This will be my first year ever participating in Lent. Tommy is much more religious than I am, so I decided that no time would be better than now for him to share that with me and for me to learn more about Christianity in general.

All I’ve gotten to so far is that for Lent you are supposed to give up something that does you harm or that you are addicted to.  Also, that it represents the time that Jesus was in the desert fighting off his demons and the devil.. or something like that. I may not have been paying attention to this part of the conversation last night.

So I thought for a while on things that do me harm (since I’m not addicted to anything), and decided that I will be giving up laziness, procrastination, and frivolous spending. I want to lead a busy and productive life.

I’m hoping that this will help me reach my weight loss goal, get a job, sew more (I’ve sewn a few pillows! more on that later), design more, and be more organized.

If I stick to this, it will help me lead a better, happier,  and more fulfilling life. I think it will be a nice change although it will be hard at times since I have always been very lazy and a procratinator. My life knows no different.

PILLOWS!!

pillows

I decided a while back that I wanted to sew some pillows for some friends’ apartment. I hadn’t told them yet.. so this may be spoiling the surprise. At the beginning of February, Tommy and I went to Joann’s Fabric and picked out a bunch of fabric for me to make a skirt, a pair of pants, and a vest. While we were there, I found this awesome black fabric that basically feels like microfiber in the home decor fabrics. So that is what these pillows are made out of. I used some ribbons to add a little detail to the smaller ones and I still have one big one to go.

I am very excited about this.

These are the first things that I have successfully sewn with the sewing machine I got for my birthday that are actually useful and to my surprise actually kind of pretty.

Once I get a bit better and can sew more than just pillows, I was thinking about maybe opening a shop on Etsy.

So wrapping up, I am having a great day. I have lost 7 lbs since I started my diet, and I put too much butter in my eggs this morning and yet they mysteriously turned out absolutely more scrumptious than usual.

Off to being productive!

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