tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63032872011-04-21T13:07:33.338-07:00This is an actual image of me. It was taken with an infrared camera, not an optical one. I think it captures my essential geekiness very well.Neeferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952788903808853807noreply@blogger.comBlogger3621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303287.post-1118158063045517542005-06-07T08:20:00.000-07:002005-06-07T08:27:43.050-07:00

Try this link to get to my new blog. Thanks for letting me know, Maria. Neefer's New Blog. I'll test it this time.

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Check my new blog: Neefer.

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My kids were beyond excited when they saw this fellow in the front garden. Woodpeckers are shy, so I couldn't get very close to him to take a picture. And he flew away when I tried to get closer. When we checked the birdfeeder, we could tell he'd been at it. What's even better is that the next day, there was a pair of them in the front yard. Alas, that is the last we've seen of them.

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Thursday's Challenge is NOISY. Can you hear her screaming?

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I think this is Sally Holmes, based on a 'web search for "rose single climber white dark green leaves", but I swear I ordered something else. I suppose it doesn't matter since this rose is spectacularly beautiful and healthy. I've been really busy lately, so I haven't had a lot of time for my blog.

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Age?: 40 Height?: 5' 7" Weight?: 204 pounds Lowest Weight?: 130 pounds Highest Weigh?: 240 pounds What weight do you want to weigh?: 150 pounds, but I'll take 195. My hunch is that if I ever get down to 150, I'll want to weigh less. When I was 130 pounds, I wanted to lose 5 more pounds. What eating disorder do you have?: I have Bulimia. In Depth How many calories do you eat in a day, on

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The Lens Day challenge for May 31, 2005 is: Gyration The act of gyrating. a. Circular or spiral motion. b. An oscillation or varying between states: "increased volatility and unprecedented gyrations in interest rates" (Jack Egan). I choose definition 2b. Not only do the children in the swings oscillate between 2 different states, but they and their facilitators

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The theme for Photo Tuesday this week is Oops. Who needs a neckhole? When I was converting this t-shirt from a bound neckhole to a banded neckhole, I forgot to take into account that the band is wider than binding.

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Lens Day: A yellow rose from my garden.

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We didn't do much to celebrate. My grandfather was in the trenches in France during World War I. He had horrible nightmares for the rest of his life from that experience, but he escaped the trenches unscathed physically which was probably something of a miracle. I wish I had known him. He died just after my parents were married, about 20 years before I was born. My father and his brothers

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I had to go to New Mexico last Tuesday and Wednesday for business. Then Chungita got sick on Thursday. It's like the whole week is gone with nothing to show for it. Well, I did get a little accomplished for work while in NM. I swam today, 2400m in 63 minutes.

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Are we BABES or what? Well, I'm not in the picture, but they are still beautiful without me. Left to right, LoriB, Tailypo, Irene, JenS, Quesie, and Verosews. We had fabulous takeout dim sum, swapped fabric, patterns, and notions, and went shopping. I gave a tutorial on the FBA (full bust alteration) a la Neefer. Here's some of the loot I bought at Fabrix.

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Green is the theme for Photo Friday. I love the feathery leaves of love-in-a-mist. It has a neat name, too.

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So it's an old photo for the current Lens Day challenge. I plead guilty to being too busy with my full-time job and being a mom to two small children.

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I mentionned that I weighed myself on Wednesday after not weighing myself for over a week because I'd been a fat pig (note to self: stop the negative thinking), and I was concerned that my weight would be up. Well, it was. So I weighed myself on Thursday, and my weight was down from Tuesday but still up. I weighed myself this morning, and my weight is up from yesterday, only a little, but it's

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I want to get Chungita started with sewing, but since she's only 5, I thought that a clothing item would be too difficult for us. I figured a pillowcase would be ideal because there's lots of room for error, and it only involves straight lines. Well, Chungita still lacks the coordination to cut a straight line. Good thing I put in lots of room for error. She picked out the fabric. She

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Studio Friday's theme this week is MIX 'n MATCH: orange + yellow. This was so easy. I'm in an orange mood, so I've been making orange t-shirts. This one is yellow-orange with orange paisleys, and it's pinned with yellow headed pins in preperation for pressing and coverstitching the bottom hem. See my blog at Sewing, Flowers, and My Eating Disorder.

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Thursday Challenge for this week is Play. These are some of my kids toys on the floor of my sewing room.

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I thought you might be interested in the darts in my t-shirts. This pattern piece started out as Kwik Sew 2565. The changes are the side bust dart, the french dart, and the neckline. The original neckline was a crew neck with a thick band. It fit great, but it was not the best look for me. I have large breasts and a short neck, so a scooped neck or v-neck would be better. I decided to

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Rubenesque (roo-buh-NESK) adjective Full-figured; rounded; voluptuous, [After Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) known for depiction of plump female figures in his paintings.] Rubens's paintings: http://ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/ "But our society admires thinness -- the Rubenesque Marilyn Monroe likely would be considered too plump these days -- and so some of our

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Hey, I've been abstinant for about 5 hours! I faced down 2 challenges this morning, the uneaten french toast fingers and real maple syrup my kids had for breakfast and the donuts on Sherry's desk. So far, so good. I'm going swimming in a few minutes, too. I weighed myself this morning. It's up. Perhaps that is the source of my abstinance. Isn't that a cool suit from the 1930s?

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Today we talked about triggers. Anything that trigger binging, purging, and restricting. The group filled the whiteboard with triggers which we listed under the following headings: External, Social, Hunger, Internal/Feeling/Physical, Thoughts. After that we did a not-very-fun exercise of writing down "3 Internal Factors That Trigger" and "Methods of lessening the effect of the triggers". My

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Cutting Table Blue Knit I posted this picture of my cutting table with a glass of water for last week's Studio Friday. I recieved many comments asking what I am working on, so ... The blue "tie dye" fabric is a printed knit, 50% cotton, 50% polyester, from Joann's that I bought to make the fitting toile of Neue Mode M23061. This will be my second attempt at this dress. The

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Chungita helped me out with the practical joke. Someone started this business with the toilets in the front yard. I don't recall who did it to whom first, but Saundra recently retaliated against MC by carpeting her front yard with the carpet ripped out of Saundra's house. The next day, I put an old, plastic birdbath in MC's front yard. MC was sure that Saundra had done both. I finally

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I bought this fabric at an African import store in Oakland, but I'm not sure what to do with it, other than a quilted wall hanging sort of thing, which I really don't want to do. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of fabric? And say, washing it? Any help, comments, or advice is welcome.

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Oakland, California boasts the oldest storybook park in the country. Fairyland is 55 years old. I used to go when I was little. Does anyone else remember Popo the clown? Fairyland has had a hard time the couple of decades. It is being refurbished, and I hope to see it change to reflect the diversity of Oakland. It's a wonderful place to take your children. The bubble blowing elf on the

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Studio Friday's theme this week is AQUA. Aqua is latin for water. Here's my water glass on my cutting table. You can see what I'm working on at Neefer Sews, but I'll post more about it soon.

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Cute cat bed pattern review

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I love gerbera daisies. The colors are so vibrant. I am cursed! Cursed! I tell you! @#$%ing t-shirts! Lately, it seems like nothing I sew comes out right. I tossed the neue mode dress, the bust on the jean jacket is too big and too low. And now the t-shirts! I thought I could improve the french darts. Did I listen to Georgene who told me they were fine? NOOOOO! So now the darts end

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62 minutes today. Only 2300 m, tho, but I did a 50 m sprint in 52 seconds. That was good. I went to see the pill dispensor. She upped my zoloft to 200 mg per day. Hopefully, that will help with my lack of productivity at work. I'm playing with the designs that are loaded into my Bernina 180E. It's kinda fun testing out the different embroideries in whatever color I have on hand. I'm working

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This is an unknown rose. It was in the garden when we moved in. I'm constantly debating (with myself) whether or not to remove it, but the blooms are lovely. I hate to remove anything with lovely blooms. I didn't get the kids to sleep until 10:30 last night. That's 2 hours past their bedtimes, so this morning, I decided to let them sleep in. The only problem with that is that I didn't get

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This is Sonia (with one bloom from Judy Garland). This rose was a gift from our real estate agent. When I researched Sonia, I was dismayed to learn that she is a hot house rose. I planted her in the backyard anyway. It turns out that Livermore is the perfect environment for a hot house rose. Sonia does very well. I went to group this morning. I had met with one of the other clients last

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From _Overcoming_Eating_Disorders_ Client Workbook by R. F. Apple & W. S. Agras "Based on the cognitive-behavioral model of bulimia, the prescription of a regular pattern of meals and snacks represents a logical first step toward interrupting the cycle." We use this book in my group therapy. If people aren't familiar with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the idea is to break the behavior

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Another rose, for which I have forgotten the name. It's starts with a k. The tag said it was a climber, but I consider it more of a very large rose. It's about 10 feet tall and wide. I tried to get it to climb up on top of the shed in our backyard, but it won't get any taller than 10 feet (3 m). It has glossy, dark green leaves and is disease resistant. I had a nice Mother's Day.

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More great art by Tania.

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I finished up the first set of clothing labels. When I showed them to DH, he wanted me to put them in the sweatshirts that I had made for him. On my last trip in the space shuttle, I snapped this picture.

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The only thing that I could find in my studio that was crimson red for Studio Friday was thread. I'm much more into pink and blue. The thread colors give that away.

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I've got to come up with catchier titles. Yet, another crummy picture. Perhaps, I will get my camera back this weekend. That is another native iris. The color of the flowers is a much more beautiful blue than shows in the picture. 2 days free of crystal light. I had to drop off the kiddos this morning and had lunch with MC, so no swimming today. I embroidered a couple of clothing labels

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I just love Tania's art. It's just beautiful. The colors are wonderful.

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She sells cards like that one, kanzashi, and other stuff.

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It's like she was here.

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I should be working, but ... A little pick up.

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It's not my mother's paint by numbers.

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Thou shall love your Vagina deeply and with reverence. It is the doorway to heaven. It is the place where souls come from heaven to earth. Whether you choose to give birth to a soul or an idea, rejoice in the sacred essence of being a woman. Check it out.

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Another crummy picture; this time, it's a lovely miniature rose. I threw out my ipecac last night. In my last post, I mentionned that I was no longer thinking about purging, so why was I hanging on to this stuff? I poured it in the toilet. And that made me remember one of the most toxic things that came out of my being a personal trainer. The culture of personal trainers is completely

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I went to group. We worked on "Areas of Change Since Starting Therapy". In this particular exercise, we took turns getting up in front of the group at the white board and addressing a list of areas that we've been working on. It seems that we are supposed to be responsible for remembering our own goals. Imagine that; the group leaders aren't our mommies. So my new goals are to keep my food

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I miss my Cannon. Is that a crummy picture, or what? This is La Reine Victoria. It's a bourbon rose. It's is a perpetual flowering rose, but after the first flush the blooms are far and few between. It balls in the rain, too. Not that that's much of a problem for me. It's not particularly disease resistant, but it's not bad. I swam yesterday (53 mintues) and this morning (44 minutes).

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Joseph's Coat in his full glory. The picture just doesn't do the rose justice. I forgot to mention that I swam for 30 minutes on Sunday. I'm still having problems getting my pooter to talk to my sewing machine.

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I can't get my computer to talk to my embroidery machine. After tossing out the dress fabric that wasn't going to work, I cut out 3 t-shirts. I got them ready for the neckband when I had the brilliant idea of making my own labels. And so, now I'm trying to figure out how to get the @#$%ing pooter to talk to the @#$%ing embroidery machine. Oh, that's Ingrid Bergman. What you didn't know she

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Ana is the daughter of a friend of a friend. She was born at 27 weeks, and was doing quite well with a strong heart and lungs and no known brain damage, but now she got necrotizing enterocolitis. Basically, her immune and digestive systems were so weak that any and all bacteria in her food infected her intestines, and they turned gangrenous. She was in so much pain that if anyone touches her,

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I can't remember the name of this rose. I swam for 27 minutes this morning. It would have been longer, but Pulgito woke up before I left, so I spent about 10 minutes nursing him.

Neeferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07952788903808853807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303287.post-1114655530403148892005-04-27T19:30:00.000-07:002005-04-27T19:32:23.553-07:00

Fair Bianca has beautiful blooms, but it's prone to disease and very spindly. I decided to chuck the pucker knit fabric that I was working with. I did a test dart on a scrap, and it didn't work. That fabric requires pattern with no darts.

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I swam for 44 minutes today. I wanted to swim longer, but Yuki got out, and I didn't want to make her wait for me. We go to the pool together.

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Angel Face is a lovely rose. It does very well in Sunset zone 14. Quite a few of my roses suffer from the dessicating furnace blast that we call sunshine. They wilt, they get sun burn, or they look tired, but not Angel Face. Angel Face has no problems with pests or disease. We had a new member show up at OA last night. It was a good meeting, 6 people, which is really nice. The past year

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This is Abraham Darby, an English rose by David Austin. It's my favorite rose. It blooms prolifically almost all year round (zone Sunset 14), the flowers are beautiful, and the scent is luscious. It's habit isn't great, being rather gangly or brambly. I went to group. I had a binge last night, and I got up this morning to exercise (purge?). I wanted to watch the end of NUMB3RS at a time

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These tulips are from about 2 weeks ago, another picture that I forgot about in my broken camera. The Canon really does take better pictures than DH's loner. If I remember, I'll post the brand, but I don't remember. Am I funny or what? Yeah, that or what, right? I actually got my lazy ass out of bed this morning and went swimming before work. Hey, and I swam yesterday. If my arms don't

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Hee, hee.

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That's the fabric that I'm using for Neue Mode M23061. I marked the dart ends and points, I pinned one to get it ready for sewing, and I'm just not sure this is going to work. Because of the pucker part of the pucker knit, if you move away from the ruching/pucker, you get a a much longer piece of fabric. This is happening at the darts, and I'm not sure what the results will be.

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Pictures soon. I had to take my camera back to Good Guys, and they sent it in, somewhere, to be fixed. It's a good thing that DH bought the extended warrenty.

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I decided to check the memory card in my camera, and look what I found. I worked on this item for almost a year. I'm not sure why it took me so long to finish. Usually, I don't have any UFOs. These are the bottoms from Kwik Sew 2529. I lengthened the legs about 4 inches so that I can wear it as a chafe guard in the summer. They are a little large. I'll so a review soon.

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We celebrated Earth Day by picking up garbage at the local park.

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I'm double naughty, but I don't think I'm bashful at all. J is for Jolly E is for Earnest N is for Naughty N is for Nerdy I is for Intense F is for Fancy E is for Expressive R is for Relaxing E is for Earthy L is for Logical A is for Artistic I

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I have a favicon. Thanks Tania!

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Jennifer Elaine Robles's Aliases Your movie star name: Apple Carl Your fashion designer name is Jennifer London Your socialite name is Jen Hen San Francisco Your fly girl / guy name is J Rob Your detective name is Dolphin Piedmont High School Your barfly name is Latte Wine Your soap opera name is Elaine Wildwood Your rock star name is Chocolate Cheetah Your star wars name is Jenann

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Low Self-Esteem I've always been puzzled by the idea that an eating disorder is rooted in low self esteem. I never thought I had low self esteem. I'm smart, I'm accomplished, I'm athletic, and while I don't know that I think I'm particularly attractive, I do not think that I'm unattractive. I'm certainly not modest. Yesterday, I gave a presentation on some work that I'd done. I thought

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I went to group today. We spent most of the time on our check-ins. It seems that I am not the only one who is having problems keeping my journal. Almost all of us are having problems. I'm not sure if I found that reassuring or not. We all have the assignment this week to do at least one day of food journaling. We're going to go over the journals next week. I talked about how difficult it

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Shaving cream fabric painting with food coloring! It sounds so easy. The results are beautiful. Perhaps I will buy all the supplies and add them to my stock of fabric painting supplies that I never use. Converting a pair of too big jeans to a skirt Thread Spool Art Demode's 1910 Costume Fest I really like the styles. Perhaps I will start collecting patterns from

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Wah!!! My digital camera is not working. Wah!!! I think it's the battery, but I'm not sure. I cut out NM23061, the knit dress. Unfortunately, I only had one fabric in my stash with enough yardage. It turned out that I needed 3 yards, and between shrinkage and short cuts, all my knits were shorter than the 3 yards. I ended up using a very lightweight, very stretchy pucker nylon. I'm

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Woodland Hyacinth I planted these bulbs when we still had a 40 foot cedar of Lebanon in our front yard. I should say when our front yard was a 40 foot deodur cedar. The tree was beautiful, but it was impossible to grow anything underneath without major effort. In a year, the dropped a layer 2 inches/5 cm thick of needles and other detris. I spent hours and hours just picking up the

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I swam today, 1050 m in 30 minutes.

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So I'm finally convinced to pursue vitamin and mineral suppliments because of the deficiencies caused by the ED. My therapist recommends Live Extension. It's so confusing!!!

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white flowers I don't know what this perennial is. I think I bought it 10 years ago when we redid the back yard. DH wanted white flowers, and this was something for him. It's never done especially well, but it hasn't died either. It might be that the dessicating furnace blast that we call sunlight is too much for it. On the sewing front, I have too many patterns. Does anyone else

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Tulips in front yard tulips in back yard My kids loved the red and yellow tulips so much that they picked them all. Chungita told me that they weren't going to pick the ones in the back yard. We shall see. I went to group this morning. The group is shrinking, and there is the possibility that this group will be canceled and we will get sucked into another group. That would be

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Shasta Daisy This shasta daisy is from my mother from her new house. I have one other plant from her, a canna. She got the canna from a neighbor when they lived on Michigan Avenue in Oakland. So it's been in the family about 15 years longer than I have. Mom kept it in a pot on the deck at our house in Piedmont. By the time I got it, it had filled the pot with tubers. I had a terrible

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lilac The lilac is blooming. Ours barely smells. DH says the ones that he grew up with, in the Boston area, smelled heavenly. This tree was in our yard when we bought the house. It's one of the few things that we've kept. I finishe DH's windpro sweatshirt. He wants vests, now. Out of windpro, with zippers; the zipper part is not a problem. The windpro might be. It's not like I

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Denim Jacket I'm wearing my denim jacket today. The sleeves are a tad long, and I want to lengthen it just a bit. I think there are other problems as well. I'm going to take it to the next BABES for help. Yuki and I went swimming. I started raining moderately hard as we pulled away from work. We got rather wet while walking from the car to the locker room. When we walked out of the

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iris I have 2 varieties of Dutch iris in my front yard. One blooms and finishes before the second starts. This is the late bloomer. It's a slightly different color, too. On the sewing front, I replaced the broken needle on my serger and rethreaded. And I found the knob to adjust the presser foot pressure. It's right on top where you couldn't possibly miss it. Ah, well. The manual

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Joseph's Coat Bloom Joseph's Coat Buds I love this rose. It's a climbing joseph's coat. The first flush of the year is just wonderful. It doesn't bloom as much for the rest of the year, but it does repeat bloom almost all year round. What's even better is that it doesn't seem to be bothered by pests or disease. I decided to post a bunch of pictures of it. I don't think they

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I went swimming today. So that's 2 exercise sessions this week.

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Lavendar That's the Spanish lavendar from my front yard. It's just starting to bloom. Is it really Spanish? I have no idea. Stupid windpro broke a needle in my serger while doing coverstitch. Everything was going great, then bammo! broken needle. I was mad, so I just left everything where it was. I went to OA last night. The new people from last week didn't show. OA is a really

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Native Iris A few years ago, my mother was taking landscaping classes at a local junior college. They have sales to raise money for the department, and I bought this iris at one of them. It's a native California iris; I forget the name. Supposedly, it does well in deep shade and needs to be protected from the sun. I bought it to go under an enormous cedar tree in our front yard. We

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jeans I finished Chungita's jeans. They came out pretty well. It turns out that I didn't stretch the fabric when doing the topstitching of the crotch seam. I did something when I topstitched the fly. I decided to unpick the topstitching just below the fly. I checked various pairs of jeans we have. Some were topstitched all the way to the fly, and some were only stitched on the back

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Gumnut Baby Fabric Isn't this cool fabric? Vennevo from Pattern Review sent it to me from Austrailia. I had a very pleasant sewing afternoon. I spent it with Lenore, showing her how to use her new Elna 744 serger. About two months ago, I convinced her to buy it. A month ago, we set the date to get together on April 1. Yesterday afternoon, we unpacked the serger and set it up. She

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Amy Butler quilting fabric made into skirt I just love that skirt. It's Amy Butler fabric, and I forget the pattern. It was modeled at the March ASG meeting in Walnut Creek. I think I could copy this using Kwik Sew 3109. I love the idea of mixing fabrics in a garment, but I'm leary of looking like I'm wearing a quilt. I just love Tania's art.

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It figures. Jennifer wraps. You wouldn't think that eight letters would be a lot for a first name, but I've not had enough space in several forms to put my entire name. It's very strange considering that Jennifer was the number one name for over 30 years.

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It seems like I spend all day Tuesday working on the eating disorder. My group therapy is in Walnut Creek, so it's a bit of a drive, takes about 45 minutes. The meeting is at 10:15 am, very inconvient for us working folks. It ends at noon. Parking is always an issue. Between getting the kiddos to daycare, driving up there, parking, the group, driving back, I rarely get to work before 1 pm.

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I just love Tania's art. The sky is a beautiful, clear blue with no clouds in sight today, but this captured yesterday's weather and my feelings very well.

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Peony View 1 Peony View 2 This is the Peony Vest by Diane Ericson from this month's ASG presentation by Jane Foster. I haven't been enamoured of this pattern, but it looked really great on this sewist. I can't say that I care for the ones in the Peony Gallery at DE's website. I'm still not sure it's for me, but I like it more than I did. My pneumonia is almost gone. I'm still

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Yellow Rose This is a very old rose that came with our house. It wasn't in very good condition when we bought the house. The people who lived there just didn't know how to take care of roses. It needed severe, yet thoughtful, pruning. So I whacked it back. And it rewarded me by blooming profusely. We wanted to do an addition to our house right where that rose was, so the rose had to

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Pear Pulgito's pear tree is covered with blooms. Last year, we only had a few blooms which resulted in about 6 pears. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to thin the fruit this year. The pears are very good. They are about the size of a large plum. Pulgito loves them; he eats the entire thing, including the core. We get home from work/daycare and hang out in the front yard while DH

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Love that Freesia I think this is the last picture of the freesia. It's been raining a lot for here, and the freesia that's left has been flattened. I'm feeling better, but I'm still coughing a lot, I'm tired, and my head hurts. My husband slept in the living room and had me close my door last night because of the coughing. He said he would get more rest, including getting up with

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Cyclamen The instructions for the Ottobre jeans are minimal. I had to dig out a Kwik Sew pattern for their instructions. I haven't done enough fly zippers to be able to wing it. I started writing in my food journal again. I had a good visit with the shrink. I don't think I need to see her any more. I'm not depressed. I love the way Zoloft makes me feel. I've been thinking about

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Iris & Sparaxia Originally uploaded by neefer. I'm feeling a little better today. I went to my ED group. Nothing much happened. We reported on our progress. It had been 2 weeks, and it seems that a lot of us stopped writing in our food journals.

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Decades of Style They are working on their website. Do I remember anything about the dress to the left? No. It looked fabulous on her. It was black. I played with the contrast a little, hoping to bring out some details. It didn't work well, but it's a little better. The neckline is draped, but she used tucks instead of gathering it, very creative and inspiring. To the right are "

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More Freesia I have pneumonia. I don't have much energy.

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Freesia I had to drive over to Dublin to get a buttonhole chisel, but the Dublin Sewing Center didn't let me down. So I went home and cut my buttonholes. Sewing on the buttons is going slower. They are shank buttons, so I can't do it on the machine. I just love freesia.

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Purple Freesia I am not making any progress with the eating disorder. I'm not even journalling which is really bad. That's supposed to be the first step towards getting well. I don't seem to be able to a single day without a binge. Wah, wah, wah, poor me. Enough beating myself up. I have to constantly remind myself that I've had this problem for about 30 years. It isn't going to

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Gargoyle Candle Holder The straps holding this gargoyle broke, so I took him down from where he was hanging. I decided I didn't want him anymore. Chungita asked me what I was doing with him, and I said, "I'm going to sell him on ebay." According to Chungita, "Who would want to buy that?" From the mouths of babes ... I was thinking that an agnst-ridden goth teenager would want it.

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I hope not. I think part of my problem last weekend was that I was hungry. I upped my caloric intake to 1900 calories/day. I'm not supposed to be trying to lose weight while I'm doing the ED therapy, probably not until I'm well.

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magnolias On the sewing front, I started on a pair of jeans for Chungita. It's an Ottobre design. I'm using the same fabric as my jeans jacket. The buttonloops use a 1.75 inch wide strip folded in thirds, and this gives me a rather wide beltloop. I decided to just go with it, but I keep second guessing myself. Should it be thinner? On the eating front, this weekend was terrible.

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