Glove Bunnies

I tried my attempt at getting crafty today! I found these really cute patterns for animals made out of gloves and decided to give them a try! Apparently Marth Stewart featured them on her show not too long ago... After some quick looking this monring I found everything I needed at Wal-Mart and the Dollar Tree.


After a few hours, this is what I ended up with. I have decided that the project would have been much easier with a sewing machine, but I did everything with hand sewing and glue today.

My mom has told me that she has an extra sewing maching that she no longer uses so she is going to bring it down to me next time they come this way!

I am actually looking at a few books at Amazon to make other glove and sock animals. This will probably be some great crafts for the kids to work on when we are all at the cottage during the summer too!!

I just think that these little guyes are so cute! This one has some minor issues and will have to figure out how to fix them with the next ones - for example, the directions did not have anything in them on how to attach the head to the body so I had to wing it! When you look at him closely you can see where it needs to be done differently, but for a first run I am not complaining!!

The proof is in the numbers!

BiosLife Slim works! Not that I ever doubted Tina and Kent, but when you see the numbers yourself, you can't help but to believe it! Once a month I will update my data here so that you can see it working...

Starting data (2/01/08):
Weight ~ 206
Chest ~ 47
Waist ~ 41
Hips ~ 46
Thigh ~ 24

Current (2/29/08):
Weight ~ 201.2
Chest ~ 45
Waist ~ 40
Hips ~ 45.5
Thigh ~ 23

According to the data on BiosLife, it usually take at least 8 weeks for people to start seeing results. Taking this into considedration, if I am seeing numbers change like this already, I am very curious to see what they are going to do once I have been using the product even longer!! The numbers are only going down from here!

I decided not to sign up for Shape Up again this session. Instead I am goign to try out some of the other FREE classes that are offered. I tried a new class at the Y yesterday. Zumba. This was actually one of the first times that this class was ever offered at out Y - Wednesday night was the first. It is a lot of fun and very fast moving, but it was worth the sweat! This will definetly be working it's was into my regualr workout routine!

Starting Week 3

It has been just about 2 weeks since I started the Bois Life Slim. So far so good! I have been amazed by the results so far! I definetly can tell that I have not been as hungry and at meals, I have been eating much smaller portions. I also have not had the desire to do much snacking during the days. I still need to work on the evening snacking as some evenings I find that I am rummaging through the cupboards to see what I can find.

As of this morning I am currently down to 202.8. I am going to fall short of my goal that I set for the end of this session of classes at the Y, but the scale is finally moving in the right direction! I need to re-evaluate where I am at and what my new goal is going to be. I need to decide if I am going to sign up for the Shape Up class again. I really like the class and find that it keeps me motivated to get to the Y at least twice a week. That right there I think is enough reason to sign up for it again!

Winter is not done yet

Obviously winter is not done with Wisconsin yet! It is amazing to watch the news tonight and see how much snow the southern part of the state is getting - especially sine we did not get any additional snow fall today! It was unbelievably windy, but no snow! Granted we have had our share of snow this winter, but nothing compared wtih what others parts of the state have recieved - falling at the rate of 1-2 inches per hour in some areas today! To get an idea of the snow in some part of the state, check out one of my friends journal entry on her blog for today. click here Nothing is every simple or "normal" in the life of Maggs!


Well, it has been officially 5 days on the BiosLife Slim. It seems to me that I have been noticing that I have been feeling fuller and eating less at each meal. I definetly have noticed that I have been snacking less during day! Just need to pay attention to the evening snakcing more. As of today I am officially down 1.6 pounds since last Weds. It seems like we are moving in the right direction!

Today I found 2 new fruits at Super Wal-Mart. The first was Start Fruit, which I had heard of before and never had the chance to actually try. The other was a Pummelo. Have NEVER heard of these before! It looks like an oragen or grapefuit but bigger - MUCH bigger! Almost like a grapefruit on steroids! This one measured about 5 inches in diameter! We have not cut into it yet to see what it is like. I will post details once they become available!

Lets just hope that is keeps going in that right direction!