Endless Summer Creations

Our faerie gardens grew...  

Our very first Big Dipper Halloween Pumpkin!  We love this! Make this or other amazing pumpkins with CountryLiving's 50 Seriously Spooky Pumpkin-Carving Ideas .

Our black pumpkin canvas.  Can't wait until the paint dries all the way so we can go to the next steps! 

By now, exercise might be ingrained in our usual routines.   But even though it might seem natural or easy to do our regular workouts, surely enough the time will come when it’s not so easy – maybe when coming back from an injury, after an eating splurge, or maybe we just say for whatever reason “I don’t feel like it today.” For the times when sticking with exercise doesn’t seem so easy, here are some tips: ·        Remind yourself of how good you’ll feel after you’re done.   The hardest part is getting started. ·        Be ready to go!   Lay out your workout clothes the night before.   Tape your ARC or an exercise motivational card where you’ll be sure to see it. ·        Put your workout in the NO CHOICE category – the same category as brushing your teeth, getting to work, getting your kids to and from school, etc. ·        Meet...

Son and I made these gorgeous little gardens today in less than 10 minutes... 

As nice as it would be for the scale to continuously go down every week, normal weight loss doesn’t work that way.   It’s normal for the scale to stay the same or even go up some weeks.    But if you hit a plateau that lasts a few weeks or longer, it’s time to reevaluate what you’re doing and see if you need to make some changes to your weight loss plan.   BDS suggests four options: 1.      Stick with your current plan and see if the scale goes down next week; 2.     Eat 200 calories less per day (check with your doctor first); 3.     Exercise 15-20 minutes longer per day; or 4.     Decide you’ve reached your final goal weight and move into maintenance. You’ll occasionally reach plateaus even if you’ve been doing everything right.   Expecting to lose weight each and every week sets you up for failure.   But there’s no reason you should have to remain at a standstill for say,...