Cover , girl!

I have been too busy lately to do regular blog posts , sorry I don't have a whole lot to share on the home front , still keeping busy working part time out of the house and doing custom projects here a there as I can fit in , which is harder than I had imagined it would be and making time to work on my self , down 34 lbs now and nearing my goal of 40 lbs.
What I do have to share is that I made the cover , ok well I didn't make the cover but my home did ...what a thrill , it is late getting into my hands sadly , I have been searching and finally found the Woman's Day Special Publication Easy Decorating issue which is on news stands now . I am sure I looked the fool grinning from ear to ear when I realized it was my family room I was looking at on the cover of a magazine on the stands at Wal-Mart ....so exciting .

The article is pretty much the same as the Woman's day mag article but with more photos , of the living room which is my favorite shot and the landing as well as the master bathroom.

Even our pooch Dolce made it into the mag in the first shot of the post, funny huh!

Any way I will leave you with my wonderful exciting news and get back to reality , I've got to go get ready for a party at my girl friends house , should be a fun relaxing afternoon .

Coming soon , the nail room floor is going in this week and I am so excited to show you all that and I will promise I will tell all that asked where I got it and who makes it too.

Have a Happy Sunday

Gorgeous laminate and fitness updates

As I mentioned in my last post I needed to go source some flooring options , I would love engineered real wood but the way basements can be fickle and can even flood I hesitate installing anything costly like engineered wood and about 1000 feet to cover in the entire basement this could get pricey . I did however find a very wonderful solution , the most real looking laminate I have ever seen , and it is so very well priced too ...we just need 45 boxes...no big deal right , still quite a bit of dough.

It is my perfect floor , it looks and feels so good and it is 12mm which is fabulous too , and it is click installation, easy.

I am crazy about it , it is perfect and will make the basement look so finished , eventually .

I thought I should give you a little weight loss update , I didn't want you to think I had given up again, actually I have conquered it, I got this. I have lost just over 30 pounds and I am feeling so much better , wearing things I have loved and saved , and that I am so glad I did not donate. I have about 6 pounds to go to reach my goal , but I will still keep going to see where my body will take me , my goal was based on my BMI so if I keep going as long as I keep with in that I will be happy and healthy and if I need to buy some news things than so be it.

I can't believe I have the nerve to show you the photo of me uncomfortably plump from last year but I've come along way baby, I know I never showed pics of me on my blog and the reason is I was embarassed of how I had changed.

I credit the Wii with my wake-up call , when the Wii calls you obese its not trying to hurt your feelings believe it or not...sure feels like it is though.

And after 15 weeks of calculating everything I eat and really paying attention to what I am eating and not eating and working out pretty much everyday doing as much cardio as my day will allow I have been able to drastically change my fitness level and my jean size , for instance when I first started to workout again my highest heart rate was hovering around 200 bpm not good at all , yesterday and my most strenuous workout it was 158 bpm.

Yesterday I decided after doing an hour of cardio on the arc , which is similar to to an elliptical machine I thought I would try to run on the treadmill for just 5 minutes, I am one of those people who has never been able to run for more than a sprint , it hurts my hips, my shins and I would always get a cramp ...painful , but I figured I have improved my fitness level greatly , and yesterday I ran 4 mph for 10 minutes I could not believe I could do it , it felt to exciting to be able to now do something that I couldn't do before, happiness.

Before here I am not healthy , not happy with myself or how my health was headed and going in very much a wrong direction , I have a couple of years to the big 40 and I want to really look as good as I can and age gracefully , I am after all completely in charge of that , no more excuses , no one else is going to take care of me but me.

Have a happy hump day all.

Pretty Storage

I have been working all week on my basement built in storage area , making doors, that was an interesting challenge , I priced out doors all over the place , but just the tall upper doors would be about $100 a piece , that seems a bit much for basement storage to me ...so I decided to just make simple door frames . I toyed with mirror in the middle but went with an easier option of using fabric to make pretty panels for the doors , to keep them light , functional and most of all gorgeous...I am so thrilled with how this has turned out ...and best of all this was discount fabric which was $30.00 a meter but with the buy one get two free deal , it was a bargain and I have lots to make into the bench cushion and most likely pillows for my bedroom .{ from fabricland canada} I made the bottom doors out of planks of pine that I had left over from another project, this project was an after thought really I had thought of buying some easy closets from Ikea , but I am so glad I went with this one of a kind storage unit, after all this is a hang out on a regular basis with Mason and Sophie and Mason's friends most often.

Here is a close up of the beautiful fabric , it is a stitched on feathering pattern.

I really need to go look at flooring options , this subfloor is just awful , I get caught on it all the time and try finding a screw you dropped on it , it is camoflage for screws.

This basement of ours is finally feeling like a nicer place to spend some time , I very excited to see it come along a little at a time.

I think I should paint my little tool peg board , black? or blue? or white?hmmmm thoughts?