Beautiful October ~

I love this month!!! It always brings back so many precious memories.

Do you have a time of year that does that for you?

Fall is that time for me.

I dated my precious husband and was engaged in the fall...

I was pregnant with most of my babies in the fall,

just waiting to see their sweet faces!

Plus I've always loved the changing leaves and in Georgia

we have a beautiful show from the trees.

Yes, I know this leads to much colder weather and winter,

but for just a very short, wonderful time we have the gift of fall!

I have to share something quite personal with you.

I've been on a mission to drop a few pounds.

I started June 28th eating low carb, low sugar and healthy!

Well.....

after just 14 weeks eating this way I have dropped 29 pounds!!!!

I feel so, so much better you just wouldn't believe!

But I still have a ways to go until I reach my goal but it's just such

a wonderful thing to be able to make better choices and control your health!!

Here is a little comparison...now don't laugh.

The "before" photo a friend had called my name and startled me

so I look like a deer caught in headlights!!!

The "after" photo is from last week...I'm so excited!

And so....I need to get my fanny back into the studio!

I want to create a few single treasure pockets to sell and 

a few other ideas ~

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday precious friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

I am so very blessed ~

I mean it. To have YOU as my friends....

to have YOU as my encouragement....

I can do anything!!!

Thank you all so, so very much for such a positive response

to my desire to lose weight!!!

Seems so many of us want to shed a few pounds ~

to feel better,

to have more get-up-and-go....

to just have the energy to deal with what life throws at us!!!

I want to be SO much more productive.

I want to be able to pop out artwork like it's NOTHING!

Plus keep up with the laundry,

keep my house beautiful and dust bunny-free (HA!),

and then have the energy to do even more.....

I've decided to create an additional blog to this one.

Just for you to share with me in the comments,

tips, tricks, stuff you've found at the grocery store

that tastes wonderful and that is good for us....

or maybe you just want to share your thoughts....

please just comment and everyone will read and share as well ~

You can come visit me and join me on my journey......
The journey back to me ~

Thank you so much my sweet, precious friends!!!!

And we will return to our regularly scheduled
programming here at The Feathered Nest!!!

Wishing you a wonderful Thursday dear friends!!!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Accountability:

an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility
or to account for one's actions.

Photo Credit: Shorpy Historic Photo Blog

Isn't the photo below just lovely??

What kind of face is this?!!

Sharon yelled my name and scared me to death :)

then she snapped this photo.

The face I'm making isn't that awful but

seeing myself was.

It's time my friends.

Time for accountability for my own actions.

And for what, you ask?

After seeing photos of the wonderful Georgia Blogger's gathering,

and seeing myself in some of these photographs,

it is time for me to become accountable for my actions.

An unhealthy diet and not taking care of myself has

finally caught up with me and it's time to do something about it.

So my precious friends, I began eating healthy this past Monday and

I'm buying a treadmill this week so I can start exercising!!

Of course I want to feel better,
have more energy and
simply be more productive!!
PLUS I have another wonderful reason AND goal...
such perfect timing, too....

Tracey of A Cottage Industry has invited me up to visit her
and be in the Barn House show with her at the end of July!!!!
How AMAZING is THAT???

I'm creating artwork and mailing it to Tracey....
then I'll fly up to help her set up her space and
incorporate my little pieces into the display!
I need stamina...I need confidence..

And so my journey begins!!

Thank you so much my precious friends for listening....
Have an amazing Wednesday!!
hugs and love,
Dawn