Something new that I made

I made this bag about a week or two ago after seeing a tutorial on threadbanger.com. It's not the same material as they used but wanted to use what I had. It was really easy to make and got me back into sewing which I haven't been doing in ages. The flower's where confusing at first but I eventually got the hang of it, the beads I got off my sister ( she makes jewelery so has loads) the other fabric I used was old denim from a pair of jeans I make into a skirt. I used an old broken hair band that had a chain as the wrist band. I love being able to make something new out of something old if that makes sense. I didn't have to buy anything for this bag so I happy. I recently also made to giant beanbags out of a few old smaller ones. I used old curtans for the outside covers and material from old sheets for the inner part and zips that I have had for ages. It was also the first time that I used my new glue gun which I had a lot of fun using and also learnt not to put my finger on the hot glue haha.

http://www.threadbanger.com/episode/SLB_20100701/silk-chiffon-flower-hand-bag-inspired-by-blugirl-handbag-secretlifeofabionerd

My New Challenge

So I've set myself a new challenge this week. I've done a few of the Zumba classes a while ago and have now got the DVDs which look like great fun. I've decided to try and do one workout everyday for the nest few weeks and see how I get on. I had fun doing it in classes and now can do it at anytime that suits me so should be a lot easier to stick to plus a lot cheaper! I even got the shaker hand weights which are really fun to use as long as I don't keep hitting myself in the head with them ha ha. Me and my sister have done two of the workouts so far and yes it's hard but we just keep laughing through the whole workout and it's really good at motivating you. There's also a basic workout that bring you step by step through all the move that you'll be doing, good to have if you get confused easily like me! I hope I do actually stick to this and if I do I'll be fit in no time!

Perseid Meteor Shower August 2010

I wait all year for this meteor shower. It happens every August and if the sky is clear it's an amazing sight to see. But it's not always clear and sometimes you can only see slight meteors trough the breaking cloud if your lucky. It has happened some years and is very disappointing, but not this year! This years was the best I have ever seen in all the years I've been watching it. It started years ago when me and my younger sister where out in the garden one night and saw some "shooting stars" so we stayed lying on the trampoline for hours watching. It wasn't a very clear night so didn't see to many but enough to be amazed. We looked it up and found out that it was the Perseid meteor shower and that it happened every August. That year we happened to see it on the last night, we decided that the next year we will do the same. We told my sister to watch out for them and eventually became the three of us and this year our youngest sister joined us. So it has become the tradition that every August we all head to the trampoline in the back garden with lots of blankets and big winter coats and lye there looking at the meteor's. This year the cloud got really thick and after a couple of hour we gave up because it was really cold. But at about 3am I looked out the window and the sky was clearer then I'd ever seen it so we headed back out and saw the best Meteor shower in all the years we have been doing this. It's amazing to see and very exciting when a huge on goes right across the sky. I'm already excited for next year and even though nobody knows where we will all be this time in a year we will always still watch it and I'm sure love every minute of it!