Busy Weekend

Saturday morning started as always with a long group run.  This week was a 'cut back' week, with only 14.5 miles on the schedule.  The run went great!  I felt good and even keep the pace under 10:00mpm for several miles.  I'm gaining a little confidence I can break the 2:10 barrier at the Air Force Half in a few weeks.  (Current 1/2 marathon PR is 2:10:06, Flying Pig May 2010...  6 freaking seconds!  If only I didn't have to stop to tie my shoe at mile 4.)

Other projects from the weekend included starting on the bathroom re-do.  The cabinet and shelves have been painted.  I'm loving the way they look, so much better than the 25+ year old wood stain on the cabinet and chipped, stained paint on the shelves.  The next step is to get the doors and drawers back on the cabinet and walls painted so the shelves can be hung.  Hopefully, I'll get some of that done tonight after Little Dude goes to bed.

Work In Progress

I also got a new sewing machine...  SO EXCITED!  Here's what I have been using for the last 10 years or so.  As you can imagine, I couldn't do much with it, thus didn't sew much.

My sad little sewing machine.

This is what I bought off Craigslist...

Much better!  (I still need to find a permanent/place table for it.)

 It's probably not the greatest, but so far I'm loving it.  (Maybe because it doesn't smell like melting plastic if I stitch more than 6 inches of fabric.)

Here are a couple of the things I've stitched up so far.

Hair Band based on the one below.

 

SweatyBand I paid $20 for at the Flying Pig Expo.

Tote bag for Little Dude with the fabric he picked out... 
Elmo, Cookie and football :)