Hey, y’all.
I made it 30 days. 🙂
No sugar. No grains. No Soy. 20 of the 30 days without dairy. It was hard but I did it and I’m going to keep going.
Just a reminder…I’m following Whole 30 ‘rules’.
They allow potatoes (white too) plus nuts. No sweeteners at all. My plan is to continue with this until Easter then reevaluate.
Let’s see…what else has happened since we last met…
Another pressure cooked pot of stew.
Mama B accidentally clicked the camera button as I was turning my head and caught this great picture of my hair color. I love it so much.
The first few grape plants of mine and Papa B’s future vino empire. 🙂
Homemade macadamia nut butter. Homemade nut butters don’t firm up like commercial butters because they don’t have any stabilizers. They’re way more delicious though. 🙂
Salt encrusted baked potatoes and blackened Mahi.
And the star of this week…
That’s right, y’all. At allegedly 40 something…I’ve decided to teach myself how to sew.
What? I know.
Meme, Mema and Mama B were all phenomenal seamstresses. Phenomenal.
Mema used to make our dolls clothes. Meme made gorgeous quilts. Mama B made most of our clothes until around Junior High.
How did all of that rub off me you ask? Not well. Back in the dark ages we had to take home ec in 8th grade and then again sometime in high school. I took mine my sophomore year. The cooking portion of the class = love. The sewing portion? Hate x a bazillion. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that my version of the shirt they made us sew looked worse than the shirt Denise sewed for Theo on Cosby. Of course Mama B saved it and I now have her on the hunt for it so I can take a pic.
Back then I hated everything about sewing. The rules. The need for perfect lines. The cutting…ironing. Just everything.
So right about now you must be wondering…if she hated it that much why did she just go buy a sewing machine?
Well if you followed the old blog you know I’ve been trying to find a new hobby ever since I had to stop baking / creating in the kitchen.
For some crazy reason I’ve decided that sewing is going to fill that void. I mean with all that sewing in my DNA I can’t completely suck, right? 🙂
I’ll write more about it as I get going but for now…
This is waiting for me. Wish me luck. 🙂
Hope y’all have a good weekend. If you’re partying for the Super Bowl be safe.
Y’all know I’m a huge football girl. But I’m an even bigger women’s issues activist. Given all the domestic abuse cases brought to light in the NFL …I just never could get into this season. I always try to leave my political views and modern day feminist opinions off the blog…and I won’t write much more than this…but today instead of leaving with a song I’m gonna leave y’all with this super bowl commercial. People faked all sorts of moral outrage in Sept and then just moved on once the season got going. Thank You, UltraViolet for not letting this go. 🙂
See y’all next week. 🙂