Crochet

Flash your gold and leather in 2006 Crochet is haute fashion!

Fashion’s Folksy Year or maybe it’s folksy.

Sewing

Hrmph! An antique sewing table is less than a new one

Stolen! A trailer loaded with $250,000 worth of specialty sewing equipment

Eating Disorder

More Eating Disorders Seen In Older Women Except that I think they’ve got it wrong. Most of [...]

Mix them together.
Thanks, Sandy, the kids should love this.

Livermore

Drunk driver isn’t paroled to hometown
I have mixed feelings about this case. Yes, she was drinking and driving, and four men lost their lives when she plowed into a tree. The thing is that they had been drinking, too, which may explain why they got into the car with her as the driver. [...]

The theme for the Thursday Challenge is CELEBRATION.

The theme for Foto Pherrets is HOLIDAY.

The walls went together easy enough.

Pulguito decorating
It started out well. The kids were interested, and I was enthusiastic.
I use Making Great Gingerbread Houses: Delicious Designs from Cabins to Castles, from Lighthouses to Tree Houses as a starting point. It’s a good book with lots of inspiration. The gingerbread recipe tastes [...]

FIREWORKS ARE DANGEROUS AND ILLEGAL, AUTHORITIES WARN
The dangers of using fireworks have prompted authorities preparing for this weekend’s New Year’s Eve celebrations to urge citizens to refrain from lighting firecrackers, no matter how small.
Police and fire authorities in Livermore and Pleasanton said that while they recognized the desire to celebrate the arrival of the [...]

Crochet

Behind the razor wire at Crabtree, inmates work on the Bridge Project
Toss a hat out of a moving car

Eating Disorder

“Regardless of what some people may think, anorectics and bulimics don’t choose their disorders as a way to lose weight”, Craig Johnson, director of Tulsa’s Laureate Clinic’s eating disorders program, said.” It’s a mental illness. [...]

We did this exercise yesterday in group.
Willingness to change
What do I want to change? How motivated am I? How willing am I? What do I think my chances of success are?
1=least, 1o=most

Motivated
Willing
Success

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exercise regulary
3
1
1

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no more binging
7
5
5

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no more restricting*
10
8
10

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3/2**
7
5
9

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keep food log
5
1
5

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stop weighing myself
10
9
10

*No More Restricting
Why is my willingness to stop an 8 [...]

A reporter at Slate did a review of several brands of pantyhose. I don’t agree with her findings. A couple of differences between the 2 of us:

I wear the color suntan if I want to have a nude hose on. The brands she recommended aren’t dark enough for me.

Spanx isn’t big enough [...]