For not really having any plans initially, the husband and I managed to have quite a good time last night for New Year's Eve. We went to a Brazilian restaurant, Impanema's, in Seattle for dinner. The food was fantastic, basically it's a great salad bar, with the delicious Brazilian black beans I love so much, and tons of different kinds of meats that are brought to your table on skewers. We basically feasted, it was a fantastic final meal for 2009. There were even Carnival dancers there, I love the feathered headresses...very fun!
After a short stop at a classy bar owned by a friend of the husband, we ended up at our neighbor's place for the countdown, complete with champagne.
Today's tasks will be taking down Christmas decorations, starting a body cleanse as part of my continued resolution to get healthy and fit, and getting started on a project that involves another New Year resolution I made (I will share more about this later). All in all a good start to a new decade.
Welcome 2010! I'm glad to have you here!
Last week I specifically purchased a few different fabrics with this project in mind. The first one I cut into was this adorable navy print with white bicycles. I used a cloth napkin I bought a few years ago at Crate and Barrel as a pattern. It measured a little over 18 inches square. I cut my squares to have 20" side lengths, then folded the edges over twice and sewed them. Their size when finished was about 18.5" on each side.
Although I cut four napkins, I have only finished two so far. To keep from getting sick of my resolution too quickly I decided that I'm going to work on my new napkins a bit at a time. There will be time to make many more, in all different fabrics. My idea is to have different sets that I can switch out based on the month or season, I think that will make it more fun for me.
I also decided to make a couple of napkin rings...that way we can use our napkins for more than one meal and easily keep track of which one belongs to each of us.
So obviously because two napkins aren't going to last us an entire year, there will be more napkins being sewn up...and I will share as I progress.
In the next 6 months before I turn 32, I want to:
Continue to weigh myself on Monday mornings and watch that number go down!
I used the yolks of eggs that had been laid the same day by my hens in the custard mixture, it doesn't get more fresh than that, it made me proud to do that.
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