I made these pickled green tomatoes in my canning frenzy of last year. I ended up with a TON of green tomatoes and not enough time to wait around for them to ripen, so I searched through the internet for…
Green T-Shirt and Cardigan
This is Simplicity 0493. I normally avoid sewing knits, I have never gotten my serger to love me back and Tim Gunn would totally bust me on my wavy hems, but this green jersey was so soft and such an…
What I’m Eating – Apples and Cheese
As part of Project Put Together, I’m shaping up my eating habits in the most time efficient way I can find. Red Delicious apples spread with Laughing Cow creamy swiss cheese. They were passing these out as samples the last…
Floral Shift Dress with added Va Va Voom
Style icon Joan Holloway would totally wear this dress on her Florida vacation. The pattern is Butterick B5414, and is meant to be a pretty straight cut A line shift dress. But if you are large breasted, straight cuts tend…
One Good Change Begets Another
For years I have been making a whole lot of mistakes in how I take care of myself, like most of us juggling work and life and kids and marriage. Convenience took priority over best practices and the thought of…
Elastic Waist Skirt
I had this fabric in my stash, meaning to make some piece of clothing out of it, and once I evaluated my style and realized that I really need to be wearing more skirts, I thought a simple every day…
What I’m Eating – Breakfast Smoothie
Part of Project Put Together is whipping my eating habits into shape. Working from home means you don’t get a real lunch break, and the boss side of yourself is always warring it out with the employee side of yourself.…
Body Type Shmody Type
As part of my Project Put Together to reclaim my style and cast off the mom frump, I’ve been learning about my personal style and how I want to dress my figure as it is now, instead of when I…
Woodgrain Pencil Skirt
Pencil skirts are my very very favorite piece of clothing. My figure was just made to wear them. If I could only wear one thing for the rest of my life, it would be this indestructible gray stretchy pencil skirt…
Thrift Store Shopping Spree
I really hate shopping. Well, I should probably just say “I really hate running errands. Of any kind.” I put off pretty much anything that has to be done out of my house and then do it all in spurts.…