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Supersize Me

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Me:  “I’m huge.  Nothing fits.”
Hubby:  “Honey, it’s only been four weeks since you had the baby.  Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

*** fast forward a week ***

Me:  “I’m huge.  Nothing fits.”

Hubby:  “Honey, it’s only been five weeks since you had the baby.  Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

*** fast forward two weeks ***

Me:  “I’m huge.  Nothing fits.”

Hubby:  “Honey, it’s only been seven weeks since you had the baby.  Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

Enough is enough.  I’m got so tired of wearing my maternity clothes after I had my baby that I packed them into boxes and sent them to two pregnant friends to refresh their trimester three maternity wardrobes.

As I ranted in a previous post, I’m on a weight loss journey.  I have twenty pounds of baby weight to lose and despite all efforts it is not coming off at all.  I decided that instead of resisting it, I had to finally go out and get some clothes that fit. 

With that in mind I set out on a very depressing trip to T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.  Which isn’t to say I wasn’t successful.  They had very cute clothes, and great prices.  The problem came when I browsed the rack of pants a size above what I normally wear. 

I skipped into the dressing room to try them on… and only one pair fit. 

Which meant I had to visit another rack of clothes.  THAT rack.  The rack in a size I’d never thought I’d ever wear.  And those fit.  Drat.

Needless to say, I found a lot of trendy and passable clothes to get me through this period.  For under $150, here’s what I ended up with:

Meet Carrie Higgins


Dreamer, thinker, + lemon squeezer; you'll usually find me clutching a mug of coffee, glue gun, fandeck of paint colors, and a child at any given time. This mom of two (and wife to one) loves to share freshly squeezed ideas for home and family. Join the adventure as we learn most lemons can indeed become lemonade-- with generous amounts of sweetness, perspective, and love.

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I’m Obsessed

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… with this trellis pattern.  I fell in love with it but couldn’t find it anywhere– until I found tons of it when I visited the Morgantown Fabric Outlet.  So help me, I couldn’t help but scoop up two yards in a creamy buttery color:

which quickly became this:

But I wasn’t done there.  I also bought 2 yards in mossy green to make pillows for my deck chairs.  Pillows that would pop against the tan cushions, to be exact.  Until a brash squirrel did this to my cushion:

fleeing the scene of the crime
 

Great.  Now we have holes in our cushions.  I decided to plan a trip out to Morgantown this summer to get more, and sew cushion covers over the winter.  But THEN I found a sale on outdoor fabric at Joann Fabrics, and combined with a coupon I got this $20/yard fabric for only $8/yard!  I won’t have time to sew them until winter arrives, but next year I hope to have new and colorful cushions on my old deck chairs for a fraction of what new cushions would cost.

You’d think I’d be done with this pattern.  However, I keep finding it in various iterations.  It popped up on my luggage rack makeover:

I should stop there, right?  Three things in my house with a trellis/fretwork pattern are enough.  That’s what I thought, until I caught up on my blog reading today.  Oh, Centsational Girl, WHY did you do this to me?

photo courtesy of Centsational Girl

I NEED THAT RUG.  And mirror, while you are at it.

Someone help me.

I’m simply obsessed!

Meet Carrie Higgins


Dreamer, thinker, + lemon squeezer; you'll usually find me clutching a mug of coffee, glue gun, fandeck of paint colors, and a child at any given time. This mom of two (and wife to one) loves to share freshly squeezed ideas for home and family. Join the adventure as we learn most lemons can indeed become lemonade-- with generous amounts of sweetness, perspective, and love.

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