FOrEvER.....

It has been forever since I posted to this blog!!!  I guess I had nothing to say or was just to busy to say it???  Whatever the case may be...  I am posting today!!  Today I am just S-A-D... about myself and the condition I have allowed myself to get into!!!  I need to lose weight...AGAIN!  What else it new??? 
I have needed to lose weight every since I had my first child and even when I was OK and should have revealed in being OK...  I didn't!!  Then I actually lost weight and even then I wasn't proud of myself...  I never gave myself an ATTA GIRL...  I just hung my head, in shame that I needed to lose SO much weight in the first place!!  So now it comes again...  I need to lose weight!!  Maybe not as much as I needed to 6 or 7 years ago, but IT feels like I need to lose that much weight again...  I am wondering where the motivation came for me then, to get on a strict diet, stay on it...  NO CHEATING, EVER!!  For 10 months and lose 85 pounds... and where is the woman that did that?  Why can't I find her?  Where is the woman who just 2 years ago was walking 2 Miles everyday and also doing yoga for 20 mins in the morning?  WHERE HAS SHE GONE!!!  I am so disgusted with myself and I am afraid that I am never going to get that back again???  WHY oh Why is it so hard for me to just DO IT??!!  Where will I find motivation to save myself and become happy and healthy again...  To stop indulging the monster within me that rages and is never satisified, both with food or with herself?  This has to stop and I have to be the one in control of myself and the raging monster within!!! 
IT is time to change my habits and to become that woman again that cares about herself and that is control of her eating habits and exercise habits.  The woman that I have been in the past and will be once again... 

cha Cha CHA!

Aren't these LoveLY? If only when my bottom was little I would have had the fun courage to get a pair of these and wear the HECK out of them!!! Now I can only admire them, cause no matter how much you might LIKE something.... Sometimes... OK not sometimes... It is never a good idea to do it!! So I will just admire from afar and applaud all the girls that wear them!!! Clappppp!!!!

FYI... I have been garage Sale-ing every week-end since my last post! YIKES!!!

Last weekend I got 8... that's right EIGHT pairs of shoes. at one garage sale alone! P was so excited for me and for his wallet TOO!!! Ha Ha He is always buying me shoes for me to wear on my poor feet. without pain... and these are all great for that! SAS... Naturalizer... Dexters... to name a few.. and they were 3.00 a pair! I didn't even ask for a lower price...

Yesterday I added a couple of old books, a dictionary (2.00). and a old scrabble game (.50), which I am making into a birthday card for my daughter!! I will share pics next time!!

Well gotta gooooooo... Love to all and blessings too! V

What to do... What to do.....

There are so many things to do.... Well so many things I want to do, I should say...

Last week-end for something fun to do P suggested, very hesitantly, I might add... That we could go Garage Sale-ing!!! I was delighted of course! Every since I bought the current issue of "Flea Market Style", I've been wanting to go junking! Here are just a few things that I was able to purchase.

Look at all of this JUNK! It was, of course in various suitcases, sewing boxes, etc... when I purchased it.. Imagine my delight at this haul O' GOODIES!!! LOL

Cool little white letters, I put them in the jars, they were all attached to some sort of grid thingy and just snapped off... I was and still am trying to get some kind of organization going on... YIKES! Is all I'm saying....


Some wooden spools, you never see these anymore... GeeZz, I sound OLD!

Always - always - ALWAYS... buy Old Dictionaries!! they are GREAT for crafting and art-ing!!

And any other OLD books too.. hee HEE...


ANd don't forget the Suitcases! I got - 1 Big one, 1 Medium one, and 1 one little bitty one... The little bitty one is sooooooo cute, and of course cost the MOST!!

That is just a small sampling of the Goodies I acquired on our Garage Sale Adventures!! Oh yeah I did get a great old purse, too!!! She's a beauty, but unfortunately, no picture... Maybe next time! Well its one week later and I am still not organized yet... and there is soooooooo much to do! So, do it I must!!! Love to all and to all ... GOoD Garage Sale-ing!!! Vonnie

Inspiring!!

Yes it's a CoConut DREAmmmmmm.... this is the yummeeeee and also Pretteeeee cake that Sweet P made for my birthday... Why coconut cake you ask?

When I was a little girl, I loved coconut cake and and soon it was an established tradition that on my birthday, I got a coconut cake!!! It always made me feel special and yes you guessed it.... LOVED!!! Yikes! There I go again; Food = Love!!! I know, I know... but It does make me feel loved, so there you go! And love I did feel and I also felt grateful that P went to so much trouble to make me a cake for my birthday! Next year I must make one for him!! This years his birthday was kinda not as much fun as it has been, because of circumstances beyond our control...
And yes you are right by thinking that CoConut Cake is high in point values, according to W.W. So I am still not on track with my food plan and it is starting to get on my nerves.... But I sure did enjoy that Wonderful Cake!! :-P



Here is the GREAT Turquoise inspiration table... That I talked about earlier!!! Isn't She lovely? She is now residing in my living room, right beside the sofa!


Now for some other great inspiration... Flowers made from plastic water or soda bottles... Cute, huh? I have already begun collecting bottles and these are going to make great gifts!!! I will post my pictures at a later date...
Well for now I must say farewell... and get busy! LOL there is always so much to do!! What are you waiting for?

Love , Vonnie

Time to get busy... but yet I hesitate!

I know there is a lot to do... So what am I waiting for??? Gosh darn-it! I am the worst about procrastinating... I know I am delaying my own good... and yet I still do it! Frustration, with no one but myself. I did get a great book today "Journal Bliss" Creative prompts to unleash your inner eccentric. Great art work in the book, I have basically just skimmed through it... and would like to do some more but I think for now, to bed I will go!!
Busy day tomorrow, getting ready for a wedding at work, it all has to be finished tomorrow!! So hopefully I won't have to work late, but we will see!!!
For now I say good nite, and yes the desk is still in the dining room, with only one coat of turquoise paint on it. And the corsages are not made yet, and and and and... I hope I can sleep!
sweet Dreams world......

Turquoise!

I have been inspired, somewhat, by a turquoise table... It is truly Divine, and Thank You Very Much to my Brother and Sister... it is mine!! So cute!!! My sister found it at Trade Days in Bowie. She decided that she didn't want it, I decided I did, and the seller came down on the price. So Vicki and Eddie made it mine!!!! This table is the reason I went out and bought a small container of Turquoise paint... I painted a picture frame, a chalkboard frame... both of them loook FAB! and then I started on my desk... but alas I need more paint...

What have I done? There is no turning back..

FYI: lost 1.2 lbs on Tuesday... i don't know how, but HEY its all good!!! I can hardly wait until next week!!! HA HA haaaaaaaaaaaaaa... ok, ok.... I will be good... Have been everyday until tonite and even that wasn't horrible! :-/
Soooooo there you go.... tomorrow is a Brand New Day!!!
Pictures of the TURQUOISE Extravaganza to follow...............

Sad about alot...Happy about more!

You know how it is... I feel sad and yet I am Happy at that same time. Life is like that I suppose. Since the last time I wrote my family has suffered a loss. Things just haven't been the same since. People are distant, that shouldn't be... after a loss shouldn't we just become closer to each other? Well it doesn't always work that way, sadly. Therefore I am sad for the moment, but happy in the long run.
My journey towards weight-loss heaven has been harshly delayed, my fault, I know... And P just left this morning, for his second summer break. It will only be a week separation, only...Then it will be my birthday... I won't complain, I will enjoy. I am getting back on the track today, I am getting back on the track today, I am getting back on the track today!!! You know... stopping the Eat-A-Thon!!! I believe in me and I believe I can do this!!!! So today is a new beginning and away I GOOooooooooooo..... Wish me luck and good wishes to you as well!