Mary Kate McDevitt launched her hand lettering class on Skillshare last Wednesday and I finally had some time this weekend to get started! I felt like I was back in school working on projects and getting homework done (in a good way). I’m still in the sketching stages but I wanted to share my work with you so far. The assignment was to pick a short phrase or favorite quote and hand letter it. She had us do lots of helpful exercise before starting. I made up this little phrase for the project and so far I’m loving how it’s turning out.
What!? It’s four o’clock already. When did that happen? I meant to do a post earlier today but then I got wrapped up in a new project I’m working on for our shop! Once those creative juices start flowing there is no stopping for anything. So you can blame my late post today on this work in progress.
We woke up to a chilly rainy morning. I’ve been waiting for a day like this. So I’m taking full advantage of it with cozy sweaters and warm socks. I plan on getting some work done while drinking tea and listening to The Civil Wars. Then of course soup tonight for dinner. It’s a perfect day! Rain, you can come any day you please.
I usually post Finders Keepers post on Fridays, but there is no way this one could wait until then.
Yesterday I got an email from Skillshare announcing early enrollment in a new class they will be offering in November. It’s called Introduction to Lettering: One Letterform at a Time and the best part is Jessica Hische is teaching it! I just about screamed with excitement when I saw this. She is my favorite typographer. I mean FAVORITE! If she was designing type and working her magic when I was little I would have said I wanted to be her when I grew up. Yeah, that’s how serious I am. As soon as I read the email I stopped everything I was doing and signed up.
I’m so excited for this one. I’m not sure how I’m going to wait until November.
Anyone up for taking it with me? Enroll here.
I consider myself a pretty healthy person. We don’t eat much fast food or drink sugar loaded beverages. I actually really like eating veggies (I can’t say the same for Jake). But of course like any sane person I enjoy my fair share of chocolate. Ok let’s just broaden that and say my fair share of dessert. So as an effort to keep that chocolate cake off my thighs, I’ve been taking Pilates classes since February at WundaBar Pilates. It’s such a great workout. I love it. I feel much stronger and healthier than I did 8 months ago.
Now that I’ve been sticking to a pretty regular workout plan the next thing on my list is to make sure I’m eating what’s right for my body. WundaBar just started their WundaBody Challenge and when they asked me to join them I jumped on that bandwagon without looking back. Ok well actually I was excited and nervous about the whole challenge. The Wundabody Challenge consists of 8 weeks where you take Pilates classes and follow The Virgin Diet. I know I know, awful name right? It’s the author’s last name. But still I constantly wonder what she was thinking when she decided on the title for her book. Anyway…The Virgin Diet is an elimination diet. You start by eliminating certain foods from your diet (Soy, Corn, Gluten, Dairy, Sugar, Eggs, and Peanuts) and then once your body is clean of those foods you start adding them back in to see how your body reacts. The idea is to see if you have any food intolerances you might not realize that can make you feel tired all the time, give you brain fog, acne, or even more seriously cause muscle pain or autoimmune diseases. The list goes on. I thankfully don’t suffer from muscle pain (besides the good pain my Pilates class causes every week) or an autoimmune disease. But I do personally know three people who have; and after doing this diet they have learned what foods trigger those symptoms so that in the future they can avoid them. It’s amazing to me how the food you eat can have such an effect on your health and wellness.
I’m going into this challenge not really with a weight loss goal (but let’s be honest I’m not going to sit in the corner and cry if I lose five pounds) but more as a way for me to pay more attention to my body and what it’s telling me when I eat certain foods. Sometimes I feel groggy, have headaches or can be pretty moody and for all I know those could be symptoms of a food intolerance. This is something I’m really excited about and I can’t wait to share my progress with you. I’m already a pretty big advocate for, and believer in, Wundabar. So I’m excited where this is going to take me.
I don’t talk much about health here on our blog, but it is something that is important to me and something I am in the process of learning more about. I hope you don’t mind as I do a little exploring. Maybe you will even learn something too!
Disclosure: WundaBar Pilates has graciously offered the WundaBody challenge to me in exchange for sharing my experience (good or bad) here on our blog. The content of my posts are my honest opinions and experiences and are not influenced by WundaBar.
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