Quilt Top Finished

I got this far today on the Baby Greens. 

I still need to finish quilting the bird quilt.  I am 3/4 finished and finally got the tension issues sorted out.  I think it was the bobbin.  It must have wound weird or something.  Why I didn't think of that sooner.  It would have saved me a lot of grief.

 Tomorrow I am going to a Cambodian Art Fair downtown.  I saw a write up in the paper a couple of weeks ago and reached out to them, thinking it might be something interesting to see.

Maybe to have.  We had a lot of original art and my neighbor had a lot of Asian and Chinese art in her house. 

McGee - Alive, but in hiding

The Cambodian Fair happens twice a month so if it is good we might make it something fun to do.

Downtown offers a lot of interesting things.  Like breakfast, those fabulous beignets........calories!

Yesterday Carrie and I went shopping for some clothes.  I have lost enough weight that most of my clothes no longer fit me.  Even the ones I bought after the flood seem  to hang on me now.  That is a good thing.  But I needed a few things that fit me better.  (so in compromise, today I ate a donut and a hamburger.)

I started another month of Performance Classes and these are Core Body work outs.  My shoulders and butt muscles are killing me from the Friday class!  But I can tell you that I was able to hold a plank position for one minute while using one hand to shake a rope back and forth 20 times!

Super Woman!

It wasn't pretty, form wise.  But that will get stronger as the month goes on.

Gotta start somewhere!

30 Day Performance Challenge, Swim Class and A Quilting Challenge

Thursday is the culmination of the 30 Day Performance Challenge at the Southern Oaks Athletic Club.  This is a neighborhood workout/swim/tennis/leisure club where we are members with along with some friends and family.  To promo a new piece of equipment that does a sonograph of your body in a pre/post comparison of fat/muscle body make up.  Really interesting. 

You go in, get scanned.  Get really bummed out.  Work like a dog in classes for a month with a personal trainer.  Get scanned again.  And compare.  The winner gets bragging rights and a free month and some other stuff.

I told the trainer today when I left, no matter what happened at the test on Thursday,  there is nobody who has worked harder or gotten further than I have in this month.  I am in a class with two of the facility owners, three class instructors, a twenty something, a thirty something and a forty something. 


Yep.  Nobody's worked harder.  I am definitely stronger, thinner, more muscular and leaner. 

Sawyer and I started swim classes on Monday.  He is a natural and I got to show off how great I looked in my new swim suit.  They took promo photos to use for the brochures for the Baby Buoy Swim School. 

Sawyer floated on his back and on his front and kicked and loved the water.   He reluctantly wore some swim fins. Ate the floating ducks with relish.

I love the photo of him with the rings.  He is definitely headed for the Olympics!  I think I will save this photo and show it to the world when he stands on the podium accepting that gold medal while the American National Anthem plays proudly in the stadium!

The new quilting challenge for Remember Me Guild is to make a two color quilt with either the Kona Color of the the Year Tiger Lily or the Pantone Color of the Year Ultra Violet.  Trouble is, I can't find any place that has any amount of either one.  And the Purple one is scarce as hen's teeth.

Any ideas where I can get some? 

I know what I want to do.