Fresh!

Hello everyone, miss me? I missed you too! I actually finished something, want to see? Here she is:

I must say this is my favorite project yet, and it took me forever to finish it! The quilt top came pieced as you see it, making this another cheater's quilt. I bought a yard of the top fabric at Britex, and it is shirting weight so I must assume it was meant for apparel. I had the backing and binding fabrics in my stash already and it was an easy match. I did "shadow quilting" for this one, where I quilted inside of every square 1/4 inch from the edges. I absolutely love the way it looks on the back side. I am definitely going to do the same quilting method for my next quilt, one that is super-girlie and actually pieced together by me! The binding took a long time too, just because it is hand-sewing and I am not very quick at it still, but I'll get there some day! It feels so good to be able to cross this bigger project off of the list, let's hope I can keep crossing them off a bit faster now.

In other news, Dennis went on a road trip with his buddies to a Magic the Gathering tournament in Portland a few days ago and is coming home this evening, so while he was away I gave myself a mini-makeover of sorts:

I got may hair cut at Seven Salon over on the Oakland side of College Avenue, then I dyed it black at home. And I got my nose pierced finally, over at Zebra in Berkeley! I have been wanting to do it since, I don't know, middle school, and I don't know why I put it off for so long. Probably because I have never had anything pierced, not even my ears, so I was scared. But it didn't hurt at all really, which was weird, it was just a very strange sensation of, "Oh, they just punched a hole in my face." I absolutely love it and I am so glad I did it. Now I just need to start getting my tattoos... All in good time. (Also, no, I am not a hipster yet, but those glasses are putting me dangerously close, I know. They're sunglasses I found in the city for 10 bucks, not prescription.)

Oh! And the sugar cleanse was a complete success and I have not been craving sugar all the time like I used to. And from the beginning of last month till now I have lost 15 pounds, putting me back down to 175, which is the smallest I can ever remember being. I haven't looked this good since freshman year of college! Yay!

*If you would like to sign up for the Finish It challenge, you can e-mail me at ohthecuteness@hotmail.com or go to this post and leave a comment, and be sure to read all the rules. Be sure to include a link to your blog if you have one, and go join the flickr group here. The list of participants and links to their own unfinished objects is here. And my ongoing list can be found here.