It is January (for another 2 days) so obviously I am thinking about the year ahead. I have returned to work after my last ever maternity leave and this is my last week of only working 2 days a week. Next week I will be working 3 days and this will be my "new normal'' probably until Rohan starts school in 4 years time! This has got me thinking about the life I want to live and what makes me happy. Sewing definitely makes me happy. However I haven't shifted the baby weight as easily this time around, so I am not the size I used to be, let alone the size want to be. With the limited amount of sewing time that I have due to 2 small kidlets and working, do I want to be spending it on making clothes to fit my current body shape/size? I fear that if I do this, I am accepting my current body is a permanent change.
I really do hate exercising. I have printed the picture above and stuck it in front of our treadmill. I bought an app for
Couch to 5k and I have used it only 3 times! I know that running is the only thing that shifts weight for me and that is why we bought the treadmill in the first place! I spend hours on pinterest trying to find printables to chart my weightloss (they aren't very good either) and then watch
Martha Bakes on Foxtel afterwards.
I just made this fantastic
Devils Food Cake
for my birthday (it makes 2 tall 20cm/8" cakes!) which also explains
why I am the size I am. In addition I finally gave up breastfeeding a
week ago - a whole year!! - and I am so chuffed with this.
So the long of it is, that I must focus on the things that make me happy (sewing and baking) and suck up the things that I dislike (exercise).
Which brings me back to sewing. I haven't read sewing blogs in ages (thanks to
Pinterest) and when I sat down last night to read them using Bloglines, I discovered that Bloglines no longer exists! At the time I cursed and grumbled as I had no idea what blogs I actually read as it had been so long, so how could I set up a new blog reader? I tried Feedly for 1day and I didn't like it, so I gave
Bloglovin' a try. Wow, isn't it fantastic! It was so easy and I discovered some new to me blogs which are awesome!
I also did a search on "Capsule Wardrobe" and "Wardrobe Planning" as that is what I really want to do. There is the brilliant
2014 Wardrobe Architect series on
Coletterie and the
2015 revision which is just starting; the excellent
Wardrobe planning post on
Grainline; the
SewMamaSew post from
IndieSew for a
Handmade Wardrobe;
Into-Minds whole website!;
Make me a Wardrobe on
My Make do and Mend year;
SewOutnumbered and her
Capsule wardrobe planning...Phew that was a lot of links! So here it is, I think I am finally going to commit:
I was just looking through my
Pinterest and discovered more Capsule planners and Wardrobe builders which I must list here for completeness:
Project 333
Unfancy
Sewing plums
And how did I ever forget
Sewing Pattern Review Wardrobe competitions. There are lots of great ideas there and I see that there is a
Travel Capsule competition starting 1st February! Maybe this is a bit soon for me.