For A Change

With spring so clearly here, I have been thinking about myself... a lot! I really wanted to have weight off by this time but that is an ongoing struggle and the bulge seems to be winning. Though I haven't gained weight over the winter I am not losing either. So change will have to come from other sources. With the temperatures rising I have had to take stock of my wardrobe. Mostly what I find there is old and worn out and drab. So today I spent a bit of Teapot's money, and blew a wad on some new things for me. Two new pairs of cotton pants.... a lovely white skirt with lacey tiers that look lovely and feminin.... three new linen blouses in pretty colours (blue, coral, and turqoise)... and a denim coloured cardigan.I have two new pairs of pants that I bought a few weeks ago and a redish orange long sleeved top and a black tiered skirt from last year. Next week I will have level 5 done and then I am going to try my hand at sewing. It's been a few years since I did any sewing for myself. What I really want are goucho pants.  Does anyone remember goucho pants. I love them and they seem to have gone the way of the Dodo bird. There's not a pair of goucho pants to be had. Now for those of you who have never heard of Goucho pants here's a pic...

These however are NOT gaucho pants...

True gaucho pants are pants that when worn look like a very full skirt... most gaucho pants being sold today suck.... they are a nasty version of expanded yoga pants... that's all I could find today when I was online shopping. So I will make them instead.... I really would like to make mine out of rayon... rayon drapes nicely and is flattering too... but we'll see.

Daughter #2 will have her 15th birthday coming up this week... she has decided that she would like to learn to sew. So she will get a day off from school and we will go to a fabric store where she can purchase material and notions and then we will spend the summer sewing.... her learning and me teaching.This should be interesting.... and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to look for my rayon material for my gaucho pants. At least that's the plan.

Among my desire for changes... I have been fighting the battle to once again cut my hair.... I kind of have decided that my face is too jowly to go short short but maybe something chin length.... at least that's what I'm thinking at this point.

All this thought of change is brought on I'm sure by the fact that spring should be a time of positive, happy, uplifting, encouraging, cheerful, self improvement.... don't you think?  I'm not sure the vibe is on me though... I look in the mirror and want to hide under my bed. This I think is not a good vibe at all. Still a little self improvement might make me feel better even if I'm not actually becoming better.  In the end the only thing that is going to make me what I want is a whole lot of weight loss and at this rate I'll be in my grave by the time that happens!

I'm off to knit a sock...