A {SWEET} Bed

I didn't really plan on moving Miss M to a twin sized bed so soon, but I came across the SWEETEST vintage bed that I couldn't just let pass by :) I knew if I didn't buy it I would be thinking about it forever!

{Before}

After I started painting I realized the foot board was on upside down, oops.  Any how isn't it just darling?!?!

I painted it with Pure White {ASCP} and trimmed it with the same blue I used for the large wood picture frame hanging behind her bed. 

My original plan was to stencil on the headboard, but it came out looking a mess. SO I finally busted out the Silhouette and read enough of the directions to cute me out some vinyl. {For real, the amount of directions that thing comes with is insane!}

{After}

The bedding I bought off Overstock.com for 50 bucks! The ruffles are the sweetest!

I've been trying to get her out of our bed and she does sleep better in this one :) I think because it feels more like a real bed, those crib mattresses are not comfy! The other night she came into our room in the middle of the night and instead of climbing into our bed she wanted us to come to hers. How can you say no to this cute face?

Sweaty, sleepy babies rock.

We have movement!

Ladies and gentlemen {well the one guy who reads this, my Dad} we are making some progress!

All it took my me stuffing my face :) 

Not really, but it felt that way. After my post last Sunday I had a few people suggest that I try upping my calories to 2000. So I did and it worked!

One day for lunch I stopped and got Subway, a foot long, flat bread {which is very yummy}.  It felt very wrong to be eating a foot long, it goes against everything I think about when I'm trying to lose weight. 

The heaping plate of spaghetti, the 2 eggs in the morning, I felt guilty every time I ate something I felt I shouldn't. 

But, it worked so hallelujah!

My workout summary this week:

Sunday- rest

Monday- 30 running, 20 weights, 60 spin {1030 calories}

Tuesday- 2.2 mile run and BCX Bootcamp lower body {650}

Wednesday- 30 run, 20 weights, 45 spin, 15 abs {1115}

Thursday- 30 run, 30 spin, 60 body pump {1045}

Friday- crap happened and couldn't run :)

Saturday- 60 cardio, 60 body pump {1144}

Total {4,984}

Consumed around 2000-2100 calories a day and lost 1.6 pounds.

Who knew I was just hungry? Apparently y'all did!

Also, I have a new favorite running song. {Kids~Sleigh Bells} Download it! I'm always on the search for new music because I listen to my Ipod so much I get sick of songs fast and great beats are what get me through a long run :) Do you have the SoundHound App? I use mine all this time when I hear a great song, I bookmark it for later.

That's all folks! Be on the look out for some fabulousness in the next few days.  Here is a sweet hint for ya :)

Sugar {High}

The sugar high started around 6 am.

It continued through out the day. I found a cute easy recipe for Vday treats to make for some of our neighbors. {Popcorn Confetti}

We had to do lots of taste testing for quality control, OH EM GEE, so good.

Packaged them up nice and pretty.

Hopped on our transportation of choice, to pass out our yummy treats!

Miss M and her boyfriend :) Yes, he's a cutie!! {We secretly covert his gorgeous hair!}

The sugar made her crrrrrrazzzzzzy until the wee hours of the  night {you know that's 8pm for us}

We will be hiding the rest of the candy today.

Runiversary

So this weekend marks the one year anniversary of running my first race! It was a 5k I did with the Hubs :) To celebrate we decided to run a 10k with my brother {his first!} and HOLY COW was it C.O.L.D. 30 degrees, 15 mph hour winds, and not 1, not 2, but 3 STEEP hills. Like my HR was 192 when I was going up that hill! 

I'm really glad I decided to wear running tights under my pants and two shirts because, with the wind, I thought my nose was going to freeze and fall off!
I set a new time, 57 minutes, which is 3 minutes off my previous time for a 10k. Considering the wall of wind and the hills I pretty happy about that. Of course my brother, Ben, beat me with a time of 54 minutes.  He has long legs, what can I say :)

We rounded off our morning at Ihop, nothing beats a nice yummy breakfast after a great race.

Recapping my calories this week, I stayed within a 1600-1800 intake range.


Sunday- 9.2 mile run {1030 calories}
Monday- 30 minute run, 15 minutes on weights, 1 hour spin {1029 calories}
Tuesday- Rest
Wednesday- 30 minute run, 1 hour spin, 20 weights {1129}
Thursday- 30 minute run, 30 min spin, 1 hour Body Pump {1000}
Friday- 6.5 mile run {750}
Saturday- 6.2 miles {750}
Total burn for the week= 5,688

Weight lost = NONE. seriously.

A pound is equal to 3500 calories, but apparently my body did not get that memo.

Obviously I have the workout part down, I just can't find the sweet spot on my calories. I think this week I will try to stick to 1400 calories\day and see what that does.
Some days {esp. when I do a hard workout the evening before} I wake up HUNGRY. Like I eat breakfast and my tummy is still growling and all I can think about is food. Those days are hard. I tend to get angry and mean when I'm hungry.

It also helps if certain people wouldn't bring v-day peanut butter cups in the house.

Here's hoping for a loss this week! {oh and the will power to not eat chocolate!}

Guest Posting

Good morning all! I've been kicked out of my bed by a sideways sleeping 2 year old :) My choices were to move her and chance waking her up or to just get up and enjoy my coffee in peace...I chose the coffee. Great news this morning, I'm guesting over at Primitive and Proper!! If you don't follow Cassie's blog you need to, she's amazing! So click on over and say hey :)

{Ruffled} bedskirt

Ughhhhhh I am having a rough Monday! I spent alllllll weekend (ok, not all, but a lot of it) studying for two big tests today, one went well the other was a complete disaster. Finance is not my friend. Here's hoping for a tremendous curve :)

In between cram sessions I worked on dying a bedskirt for my master bedroom.  The comforter I have is the ruffle circle quilt from West Elm which is not white, nor ivory, but stone white which is really annoying because I can't find a darn thing that matches it. I tried white, cream, ivory, nothing looked good so finally I decided I would just try dying one.  I found a great deal on a ivory ruffled one from amazon, found here.

Not bad for 33 bucks.

I bought 3 packets of grey dye from Hob Lob along with some gloves, blue hands are not in :)

Boiled and dissolved the salt and dye and dumped it in a tub.

I read that you can use the washing machine, but I was nervous it would stain it. Let soak for 1 hour and then wash {twice} and dry.

Looooooove me some ruffles!!

At least SOMETHING went right today!

Random and {PINK}

It's February.  Where in the H E double hockey sticks did January go??? For real the fastest month ever. I wore lots of pink today because somehow it seemed appropriate, you know cause it's V-day month.

What you can't see is that my bag, coffee cup, and giant ass key chain is also pink. My shoes are gold, so there is some respite. 

Waiting for Finance class, suck-iest class so far.  Stocks, bonds, blah, blah.

I broke down today and printed a tracker. 

Yes, it's pink. I have no defense to that. I got it here if you want to torture yourself by writing down everything that falls accidentally in your mouth. My new game plan is to post it up on the fridge so when I go to grab a little sugary sweet love I see it. Oh and maybe a inspiration pic off of Pinterest. Like this...

Or maybe not, I'm pretty sick of the "Do 3 reps of each exercise everyday and you will look like this" on pins.

Oh, I just pulled out my laptop case, it's pink. 

Came home, got ready for some spin class and realized....

Yep, I'm wearing pink {ignore the stalker stealing my room in my pic}

What can I say, I big heart fluffy love this color :)

 Yeah, added up my tracker so far, don't think there's going to be room for sugar free pudding pie tonight :( Sad.

Ok, end of the most random off topic post.

Curtain rods and the 80's, but not together.

I want to thank all of you for your awesome sweet comments on my last post, hearing positive comments on my struggles helps me so much, I just get stuck in my head sometimes! 

I had a great weekend because I got to bring back the 80's!! My friend  Jen over at Life, Crafts, and Whatever {whom I've know since high school, I won't tell you how many years because it makes us sound old} threw a totally tubular 80's party and it was a blast!

I have to say the makeup was so much fun, rarely do I get to wear so much color on my face out in public!

Yes, I already had all this color in my collection in fact I wear this Stila Blush everyday, just not his heavy. The eyeshadow is all Urban Decay because they have the best pigment.  Random hot pink lipstick from Wal Mart, I did wear it yesterday with a little gloss and it was pretty :)

How awesome are our outfits! Love!! I got mine at American Apparel that store is full of 80's goodness, not sure how much of their stuff you could wear in real life though. I will be working those leg warmers in to my wardrobe somehow! The lace headband is fabric I found at Wal Mart, yeah my Wally World sells fabric don't be jealous.

I also got to meet another blogger, Julie {in the middle} from It's Sew Stinkin Cute, who I hear throws the best parties in Dallas :) I'm totally trying to wiggle an invite to the next one! I hear Tacky Prom is Jen's next party, thrift stores here I come :)

Now for a totally unrelated topic.

One day a few weeks ago I ran to Lowe's for something and they had a whole cart full of clearenced curtain rods.  I have metal ones up right now that are ok, but not fab.

I've been wanting something chunkier and they had some great wood ones, but they were all different colors of wood.

Well we all know paint fixes everything and for 22 bucks I couldn't pass up this good deal!

Excuse the boring mantle, I've been uninspired with filling it since Christmas :( 

I also learned that these types of curtain rods are 1000 times easier to hang than the metal ones, one screw one each side and you're done!

Happy Tuesday!

Getting somewhere

I'm pretty sure my scale is broken, the lowest weight it will go is 149.8. I need someone to buy me a smart scale for my birthday in March, ummmkay? I'm seriously just tired of looking at the same number for MONTHS!!! I've tried changing my workouts to include more weight training because then your body burns more calories through out the day.  I've changed some eating habits, heck I even did a cleanse and NADA. I'm not sure why my body is trying to annoy me, but I'm pretty sure I'm about to throw my scale out the window in frustration.

Now, I KNOW my number is not bad and I know how far I've come but time is running out to lose those last 10 pounds before I have to get knocked up again.  Yes, baby number 2 is now a glint in my eye and I'm trying to not have panic attacks about getting fat again. I KNOW better this time and I'm all about being the fittest preggo you've ever seen, but I would relax just a bit if i could get off those last few pounds BEFORE :)

Yesterday I wasn't feeling trekking to the gym because I really wanted to stay home and make this amazing cauliflower crust pizza. {you HAVE to make this is was soooooo good!!}  I decided to do a bcx lower body workout in the comfort of my home instead :) I realized a few things, when I started running and working out my goal was never to be fast or super strong, it was just to get fit. The last 5k I did I ran it in 26:15 which is pretty fast for me! I'm running the Big D half marathon in April and I'm certain I can do it in under 2 hours {my first time was 2:27}.

While doing some abs I realized I can actually DO side plank. I remember the first time I tried to do one  of these in a class, I couldn't even get my hip off the floor and for the longest time I had to put my upper leg in front to support myself. Now I can actually do it and throw in some crunches!

I can hold a plank for 2 minutes too :) Not so long ago I barely made 30 seconds.

I've been using 10 pound weights on my arms, I used 3 pounds when I started on this journey.

Instead of sitting on the couch watching Gossip Girl, like I kinda wanted, I got my booty up and worked up a sweat with my baby girl.

She's a great workout partner, weighing me down for 1 minute wall sits and begging for me to change the music to "party rock, mama! party rock, mama!"

It feels good to be able to do things I could never do before, so who knows what I'll be doing in a year! Maybe a 6 pack?? Ha, maybe not, but I'll try to have fun getting there!

Happy Hump Day!

Free time + cute stuff

Hey! Hey! It's beautiful this weekend in Dallas, we are getting our reward after the million + days of 110 degrees this summer. I'll try to remember this the next time I'm complaining about how hot it is :) I had a wonderful soccer game this afternoon and I got home {kid free!} a few hours before I had to leave for dinner with friends, so whats a girl to do? Clean? Homework? Blog? YEAH, blog! {although I did feel kinda guilty so I swept the floors and vacuumed first} I find in nearly impossible, when Miss M is around, to sit a my computer for longer than 5 minutes before this happens....

Yes, she is for real choking me. Kids.

I wanted to share a few things I've been up to, one of which is a Pinterest idea.  {Literally every time I'm in Hobby Lobby I hear someone talking about how they saw something on Pinterest, it's taking over the world!! ha} I found a globe for 5 bucks at a flea market and did this....

How cute is that? Oh and getting a globe apart is no joke, I took my husband a good half a show to pry it open!

Isn't the feather wreath adorab! 5 bucks from West Elm.

Also, for Christmas my amazing Mother bought me a fun Pottery Barn {orrrr maybe it was Crate and Barrel, I can't remember} light fixture for my dining room and a HUGE cupcake sign. Best thing about it was because it was a gift the hubs couldn't complain about how girly it was!

Ok, ok now I've shared my fun stuff I should maybe do some dishes or something...

Happy Saturday!

Miss Madison

Mothering a toddler is very demanding, somedays I want to pull my hair out in frustration and others I want to eat her fat cheeks.

She's really in to dressing up, princesses, Belle, and make believe right now.

If only she was this well behaved and cute every day :)

Media Center and chippy loveliness

Some of you may remember my IKEA media center I built for our giant ugly tv {seen here}

Well, around Christmas time my husband decided that he HAD to have a new TV.  You know, he spent hours researching different tv's and kept sending me emails about them, like I care.  To me a tv is a tv, or so I thought until I made friends with Netfilx and stayed up until midnight watching episode after episode of 24 :) I'm so lazy I don't even want to fast forward on my TIVO anymore!

Anyways, he finally decided on one and OF COURSE it was like 1 inch too big to fit inside my media center that I spent hours building.  I tried and tired to squeeze that sucker in, but nada.  What's a girl to do?? Go back to IKEA of course :)

I went with the LIATORP Sideboard, which runs about $350, the side pieces they had paired with it were around $300 each and I wasn't about to throw down a thousand bucks on furniture after buying that TV.  I decided on using some more Billy Bookcases and getting the glass doors to pull it all together. I loooove it! The glass doors keep the kid from touching my stuff, I have yet to fill the shelves, but it's a work in progress. Oh, I also painted the backs again, I think it looks more custom.  Someday we plan to mount the telly to the wall, but that's a guy project and he's a procrastinator :)

Now on to some chippy loveliness!   I went to a local antique market thing {for you local gals it's in downtown Mckinney every 1st Saturday} not looking for a thing and of course I found all kinds of awesome stuff one of which was this amazing vintage medicine cabinet.

Perfect size for all my commonly used beauty products!

Y'all know I love me some turquoise :)

My husband of course thought it was junk, men just don't get it.

Happy Tuesday!