A year later......

It has been 1 year since I made a lifestyle

change to better my health, rather than surgery.

I was lucky, I still had the choice.

So under my doctors care:

I joined a gym.

Working out 6 days a week the first 3 months

 cardio & classes only.

I did get a Personal Trainer into my 3rd month

of training once I started lifting weights.

I now work out 4 to 5 days a week.

I changed my meals as I did not eat red meat the 

first couple of months.  I ate chicken, cod, salmon, eggs, 

multigrain bread & salads.  

Water.....10 glasses a day.

I did still drink green wine with my dinner

lets not get too crazy here!

After I starting lifting weights I went back to eating

meats but mostly steak.

I am back to being fit....more so I feel now.  

I feel like I have more energy,  my skin feels rejuvenated

and I am stronger than when I was in my 20's!

Skirt made by me.

Denise Angela

Happy Canada Day!

Hello sewing friends!

Happy Canada Day!

It is also my blog anniversary too, 5 years!

  It's been awhile since I 

posted but I finally made something to blog about.

A little DIY from the "husbands" tee

So very easy, just cut off the sleeves, cut to make the ties,

A little serging to take in sides, clean up & done!

Skirt is made from a jersey blend, designed to fit me,

2 pattern pieces...front & back, sew in a  waist band 

& that's about it.

I am on instagram daily @deniseangela & if you have an account 

I would love to follow your sewing blogs there as well too.

Sew you later!

Painter's Dress

A dress iMade from this fabulous jersey fabric 

that looks like splattered paint.

I used New Look 6149 for the bodice & I added

a black ruffle along the neckline for a little prettiness.

I like this raglan sleeve top pattern 

that was very easy to sew.

 The skirt is my own design with the

hem cut at an angle that after all these years

I still love.

Sew you later!

Skinny Jeans

8 weeks into my Body Recomposition & I fit back

into my skinny jeans! Yeah me!

Black tee is made by me using

a simple McCall's pattern

a few years ago.

Just finishing up my New Years Eve dress......so I am way ahead for this year!

I also added my instagram @deniseangela

on my side bar if you care to follow

my some times daily photo's.

Sew you later!

Bleu Sewing Room...Flashback Friday

I have pretty much sewed in every room of my house 

these past 5 years.....really 5 years of sewing & I

still have not made a pair of jeans?!

The fake neat photo for my blog.

Anyways, this is my  first sewing room.  A bedroom vacated

by my oldest daughter when she moved into our basement.

This is what it pretty much looked liked when

I was learning to sew....a disaster.

Mini-me back then was excited by my new hobby

& made me this for the wall of "our"

new sewing room.

A yet unblogged white ruffle camisole that I made 

back then.

My first drape dress that I made that my middle daughter

"The Model" wore.  Notice the fabric?

Many dresses were made by the 10 meters

I bought.....newbie fabric purchase.

Mini-me always there from the beginning,

just after we set up the Singer sewing machine

in the little blue sewing room.

Sew you later!

Ballet dress

A dress iMade for my ballet classes using one of

my ballet tops for the pattern of the 

bodice out of ponte de roma knit.

I used swimsuit material for 

the skirt....a design of my own

to which I sewed together at the waist.

New Year & new ballet slippers.

Sew you later!

New Year, new trainers, new tank top

I have been a gym junkie a little

over a month now working out

6 days a week. 

I never thought I would.....I hated the gym,

preferring ballet, swimming & sports 

to keep me in shape, but a Fibroid has afflicted me 

this past year.  Making me look about 5 months

pregnant with all the gory issues that most women

my age get.  My doc said I could just wait it

out (yeah I love not fitting any of my clothes) 

have surgery or try to get rid of it naturally.

Naturally has worked the last 6 weeks!

I have dropped 10 pounds & now

fit into my previous fat day clothes.

I cut all the junk food from my diet,

kept the good carbs, more protein,

& no red meat.  I get at least 7 hours

sleep a night & I know that is because 

of my 2 hour workouts at the gym.

Instead of a new wardrobe, I need new gym clothes & they are expensive.

I have Lululemon bottoms from my ballet workouts

so I just needed more tanks & tops.

This is the first one I made from swimsuit material 

using McCall's pattern 6751.  Very easy to sew & holds up

to a vigorous workout on the elliptical so I 

will be making more!

Sew you later!