United states of Nicole

Did any of you lovelies watch "United States of Tara". Jim and I found it on Netflix and got so engrossed in it that we watched all 3 seasons in two days.  If you haven't seen the show, it's about a woman (Tara) who has multiple personalities and her life with her family and how they deal with her and her "alters". One of the alters is Alice. Alice is this lady who jumps straight out of 1950 and is a "June Cleaver" type. 

I'm saying all of this, because this is my Alice outfit. When I got dressed  I looked at myself in the miror and totally thought that this was my version of "Alice". 

We are 2 days into our vacation. We are headed to our favorite bar tonight and meeting up with some great friends. Sacramento is always so nice to visit. When I was young I alsways talked about moving and not living there anymore and how happy I would be, but when I visit , the place still feels like home and I could totally see our little family being back and totally happy! I miss being able to ride my bike to the grocery store and walking to go get coffee and donuts in the morning. You can't really walk anywere in Sonora.

Ok well Im off. Enjoy your day everyone! See you tomorrow for Saturdance!!!!

 

OOTD-

T-shirt- walmart

Sweater- Torrid

Skirt/dress- Kohl's

Shoes- don't remember :(

OOTD

Today I had to go to DMV. I dread going there. So much so that my car registration was late! I have nightmeres about going to DMV and I'm pretty sure that the first zombie came from DMV.

 When I went there today though we were in and out in less then 20 minutes. That has never happened. Usually I will walk in and get my little ticket and there is only one other person in there with me and it still takes an hour. For some reason today though, the god's of DMV shined down on me and took pitty on my impatient soul! 

OOTD

Sweater and skirt- Target

White tee and belt- Target 

Leggings- Target 

Flats- Payless 

Hair flower- Oh SweetHenry

 Here are a couple of outtakes!!!!

 

DIY Peter Pan Collar

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I love the idea of being able to put a collar on anything you want, so I thought I would join the masses and make myself a Peter Pan collar. Here is my take on this super cute and dainty fashion trend.

SUPPLIES

• NEWSPAPER (OR PLAIN PAPER)
• SCISSORS
• SCRAP FABRIC (OR A FAT QUARTER WILL DO)
• INTERFACING
• SEWING SUPPLIES/MACHINE (OR NEEDLE AND THREAD)
• HOOK AND EYE
• OPTIONAL: IRON

To get started take your newspaper and fold in half. Draw a template for your Peter Pan collar on the fold so that it will be symmetrical. I've seen a couple of different styles of the collar, so I leave the design up to you but you could also print out my photo and enlarge and use the one I have made :) To make it a bit easier on you here are a few pieces of advice... I took my neck measurement and divided by 2 and x pi. Just like making a circle skirt. Then for the outside, I free handed the shape I wanted and I had to try a couple times before I got the shape I wanted. also once you have your pattern make sure you try it on and then cut what you don't need in the back off.

Next take your fabric and pin your pattern. When you cut out make sure to leave plenty of seam allowance. You will need two pieces (a front and a back).

After that you will need to cut out two pieces of interfacing (one for each side). Use the fabric as your guide to cut out the interfacing because you will need the seam allowance. I got fusible interfacing and it added another step for me, but I find it easier to work with. If you are using the fusible kind you will iron it down to the wrong sides of each piece. P.S you iron shiny side down. 

Once you have all your pieces it's time to assemble (News Teams Assemble!), sorry that was a lame Anchor man reference. You want good sides together, so it should interfacing, fabric, fabric, interfacing. Pin your fabric sandwich together. As a guide I traced the original pattern onto one side so I could use it as a reference. It actually helped a lot. 

Next grab your sewing machine or needle and thread and sew around your lines, making sure to leave both ends open and and one end a two inch slit so you can turn it right side out.  I started sewing at the scallop point and I triple stitched right there to ensure that it would make a crisp point. 

Once you have sewn completely around (except the ends and the slit) it's time to turn this bad right side out. I did not leave a two inch gap and let me tell you this was a pain in the ass! This was single handily the most time consuming part of the whole project! Put on some good music and start pulling. 

Once you have it all turned, you may need to iron it flat, mine was pretty wrinkly from all the torture! It's time to attache the hook and eye. Now this is were you can get creative, if you don't want to use a hook and eye you can use ribbon or even a necklace chain. It's all up to you. I didn't have a hook and eye but I had pants closure so I used that. Attach your choice of fastener and your done! I like a dumb ass forget to take a photo of the finished product, but I will be in an upcoming outfit post. 

If you make your own Peter Pan collar I would love to see it. If you have any questions feel free to drop me a line! Have a great Wednesday y'all and don't forget to subscribe!

Febuary is a month of self love! OOTD

I'm not one that makes a big deal out of Valentine's day. It always seem like a holiday to buy stuff. Celebrating love should not be about one day or candy or cards. Jim knows how much I love him and we both don't need a holiday to show it! I will say that the girly side of me wants to be spoiled and wants a little something on a special day, but then the rest of me steps up and tells girly me that what I really need is a motorcycle helmet and not a fancy ring or candy in a velvet box!  I will say however, that I was inspired by v-day when I painted my nails. This time I decided to paint my toe nails. Over at A is for ampersand, Amy is doing a month long feature on body acceptance and self love! I love this and will be talking more about it in the next couple posts, but with that being said I chose to do my feet because I'm super self conscious of them. I have a pretty gnarly rash-thing on one of my feet (I've seen the doctor about it and it's just something that will get better or worse on it's own) and I have chubby sausage feet with little nails. With all of those things, I usually avoid my feet, but focusing on self acceptance I chose to share my insecurity with y'all! 

All in all I'm pretty proud of my little robots. Each robot is holding half of a heart and when I stick them next to each other they connect. I thought that was cute. I also grabbed a couple pictures yesterday on our way out the door. I had an eye exam and I finally ordered new glasses!

MEOW!

 

 

 

 OOTD-

sweater- Walmart

Shorts and plaid shirt- Torrid

Tank and Thermal leggings- Target

Today is a busy day. We bought paint to re-do the dining room. we are going to refurbish the ceiling fan and paint over the awful fake wood paneling on the walls. So with that being said, I'm off to home improvement land and I'll be back soon. Hope you all have an awesome day!

Storms A Brewin'

This is the outfit I was wearing in yesterdays video. I really liked it and thought I would share it with all of you! I bought these jeans online from Forever 21 and I was a little nervous about them fitting, but they look pretty good. They are not very thick jean material, I normally go for thicker material because the thinner stuff gives me what Jim calls (front butt). Haha. I can't believe I just wrote that and now am going to talk about "front butt" on the Internet! Front but is wear your pants are snug enough to make a dent in your belly and well, it looks like a butt. From time to time this happens to even the most put together of us chubby chicks. The thinner the pants are the more noticeable, or more often the front butt phenomena may happen.

I'm going to start off by saying I used to hate Uggs. With a Passion! I hated seeing girls in the city with Uggs and mini skits on. What is the point of that. Living in California I often see people wearing leg warmers with flip flops and I have been guilty of wearing scarves with t-shirts, but the Uggs trend just sent me over the edge. This may stem from the fact that my college professor drilled it into our brains that Uggs were made by the devil. To him Uggs being worn anywhere except Australia was like going outside your house in Pajama pants. I refused to fall into the Ugg trend... until I moved to the woods. I still refused to pay for Uggs so I settled for the off brand Uggs (what I like to call Fuggs) I wear my Fuggs when it's super cold, raining real bad, or light snow. I live basically at the snow line. At my house we get 3 or 4 really good snow storms during the winter, but literally if you drive ten minutes from my house, you are in a chain zone, people are snowed in, and out of power at least half the winter. Now Fuggs are not good for lots of snow because they don't have a whole lot of traction, but a light dusting is ok. So the point of me saying that is because It was raining pretty bad yesterday, hence me wearing my Fuggs!  With the impending snow coming tonight I'm held, Jim and I stocked up on foods, filled our netflix Que and I stocked up on crafty things.  It's supposed to hit tonight and we will see how bad it really it. 

I think it's a little funny that just a few posts ago I was talking about how it feel like spring in January and now we are held up in the house waiting for the storm to pass! Oh well. What is the weather like were you live? 

 OOTD-

Black and stripy tank- target (I think)

Red Bow tank & Necklace- Forever 21

Blue Black jeans- forever 21

Fuggs- Payless shoes

Cardigan- Ross

Hair flower- Local Salon

Thanks for stopping by. Be safe everyone and until next time tootles. Don't forget to Subscribe :)

Sunday is my Funday!!!

Sunday = vlog day!!!!!!

Photo dump

It was getting time to dump off some photos from my phone onto my computer. I thought I would share some photos with you and a little insight into my daily life. Enjoy :)

In the service elevator at work.

sleepy man

Cadell and his Mucho Mamma!

The bathroom rug jacket

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie!!!! yummmm

Frank's tongue doesn't fit in his mouth.

Sacramento bound

Kitty Litter cake for my mother-in-law

Jim accessorizing

Mr. December

am I bugging you?

waffle cup nipples

champagne nipples and caviar dreams

Oreo stuffed Chocolate chip cookies

My running errands outfit.

Houston, we have landing.... Etsy store is up and going strong!

My poor chubby fingers have been hard at work, typing, photographing and blogging about THE NEW ETSY STORE!!!!!! It's finally up and running and we have a decent amount of stuff. This partnership  with lovely Mrs. L is going swell. She picks up where I lack (grammar big time) and comes up with witty descriptions when I have a brain fart. I'm still off work, which gives me ample time to craft, especially when I don't feel good and imprisoned to the couch. At this moment though, I'm super happy with how this has all turned out. Our little shop is getting ample amounts of views without any marketing too. Once we sell a couple things we will start thinking about marketing and adds and google words and all that fun stuff. Other then that not to update on, and my brain is a little fried right now so I will leave you with some Outfit of the day photos and will try to chronicle my baking adventures tomorrow.Oh here is the link to the Etsy store.

Oh SweetHenry Shop

OOTD-

Dress and boots- New Look

Sweater- Ross

Leggings- Target

Fascinator- Etsy shop!

Thinking healthy and OOTD

     I am a fat girl. I always have been and I always will be. With that being said... I'm on a diet (a lifestyle change). Let me start off by saying that this is not because I want to be a model. First of all I lost my gallbladder in May (R.I.P. G dog, you were always my organ homie) and I'm tired of having constant diarrhea. Second, I have not been feeling very healthy. I know that it's a problem when I get winded tieing my shoes! Now, I'm happy with me in general and am one confident fat chick! I have always been able to find things I like about myself, but at the same time I've started noticing things that make me feel not so great and I would like to improve myself a little to be the best me there is. Part of me being me is my size and the attitude and confidence that I have with that size. Loosing weight is not the goal here, its being healthy and conscious of what is going in my body and what I'm doing to it. If I do loose weight that is fine and I won't mind that either, my point is that I don't have a goal weight and I won't be devastated if I don't loose every week. I won't lie, I know that being fat puts a target on you for health problems and I just want to make sure that I'm not one of those statistics, plus I'm pretty sure that it would be hard to accessorize one of those sleep apnea masks! 

     So I joined Weight Watchers and I'm pretty happy with it. I will say that the hardest part for me is not having soda. You can have soda on WW but I know that if I have one, I will want five more and that's just not good and what got me huffing and puffing over my shoe laces! Diet soda is not the same and the after taste that lingers all day, I just can't do it, so I opted for no soda. I have been drinking juice and that helps curb the cravings. With that being said the caffeine with drawls were the worst part. I've been getting random migraines and they won't go away! Once I can get past this then I'll be in the clear, but this is by far the hardest part of the diet change.  As far as food goes the boy and I have been eating well and stayed within our point ranges. We bought a magic bullet and have fruit smoothies for breakfast in the morning. I had my first weigh in yesterday and I was down 4 lbs. That kinda made it worth all the soda crap. 

     I had to go to a training at work today so I figured I'd take a few pictures before I left for an OOTD. The boy got in on the action too. I threw in a couple bloopers for you too. Hope you like.

 Leggings and cardigan - Ross

Tank tops- Target

Skirt- Kohl's

Flats- Payless

I hope everyone is doing well and is having a good week. Feel free to drop me line and let me know how I'm doing at the log thing. I'm really enjoying it! I like sharing my little slice of life. Have a good weekend yall!!!!