south Beach Diet day-207

food....why does it taste so good? I did okay with the diet but I went to McDonalds right before diner. WHY? And thought i am eating south beach food I am eating all of it at once. What is going on? We did go for a walk after dinner which felt good. It was also for little girl because she needs to loose 3 lbs. She is a little chunky monkey. I have been giving there a little treat every time I eat. yeak!

South Beach Diet day-206

I felt so motivated when the day started today....not sure what happened? Oh yeah I got hungry. Had 2 bags of oatmeal for a late breakfast, ALL the triangles of cheese, then went to McDonald's for a fish sandwich and a snack wrap. In my defense I did not eat the buns! Had a great dinner of tuna and squash but washed it down with a coke...I wonder why I am overweight? I did go to kickboxing thought. I really, really, really, really miss my kickboxing instructor Annette from 24 hour fitness. She is amazing. I was a kickboxing addict for 3 years...only missed a class for school functions and once when twisted my ankle. Here it is not so great. There is no 24, I am at LA fitness and though the club is nice enough there is no Annette. There is no one who is a motivated or as motivating as she is. I did sweat a lot tonight but I miss the old class. I almost threw up since I have not worked out since June 4th. But its a start. Now just need to keep up the workouts and burn down the McDonald's they decided to build at the end of my street. (Just kidding I would never burn down the McDonald's or anything else for that matter) Hey maybe I can burn off some weight if I actually, physically run to the McDonald's instead of drive....Or maybe I should just grow some will power and forget the McDonald's all together! Weigh in on Aug 22, 2011

Well tomorrow is another day...

Project Runway moment

This is a skirt I made for myself. I had to give it to a good friend because a size 10 is not a size 10 when you are reading a pattern. Its more like a size 6 maybe even a 5! And it only took me 3 tries to get the zipper in correctly.

Work Tent

THis is a crazy makeshift tent I built so I could finish sanding and painting a buffet in the 105 degree temp. We bought it at the Habitat for Humanity resale shop in Alexandria, VA. It was only 54 dollars! What a find!

the studio -IN the beginning, before there was Doodle

This is a photo from the forest looking at the back of the house before we owned it. It was the day of the inspection. See the lonely little studio that would grow up to be Doodle All Day! YEAH!

This is my son Mason...

This is a photo of me and my son Mason. We are at the Potomac Nationals game on the 4th of July. After the game there was a fireworks show. After the fireworks show it only took us 1 hour and 15 to get out of the parking lot!

My kids!

We have 3 pets that we call our kids. An Australian Cattle dog named Big Dog-(he has a real name but he does not respond to it), a
Chihuahua mix named Little Girl (yes she has a real name also but she only knows herself as Little) and a 18 year old cat named Bear. Bear was born in my closet so I feel a special attachment to him, although I do not think Bear feels the same way about me. He sometimes makes me think I am only here to open the food cans. Big Dog is crazy about these little rubber balls you can only get at PetSmart. If they ever stop carrying them we will have to enter Big Dog into rehab! This is a photo of Big Dog traveling with his Daddy in the Budget Rental truck (because U-Haul is evil!).

South Beach Diet day-205

Got way off track do to moving....starting all over in the morning. I know as of June 6th I had put on 5 lbs. but as of now with
all the traveling and moving and messing up my schedule I am sure it is more like 10 lbs. So Here we go again. At least I am starting from a smaller number this time!

A long time!!!

Okay...I am back on track now. I have been moving for the past month or so but I am back.
Here are the latest photos of my studio (a work in progress). The opening was suppose to be
last week (July 2011) but it was 105 here! Felt like Houston!