I survived Day 1 of Boot Camp!! - plus CHA projects!

of Boot Camp - but only just!

Sadly - I seem to be the worst person in the class - but hoping to be not so sad by the end of the 4 weeks.

It is so sad when you realise just how quickly yo have lost all your fitness and muscle tone by doing nothing - whether through injury or by just doing nothing. I am guilty of both!

I started 2009 with lots of fitness going on - then injured my knee in April last year. Once that was fixed, and it took a while believe me - the rest of the year I was really busy and just did not get back into it - but it is no excuse! I started lap swimming again late in the year, but not often enough. But I am now back on the horse - and I am not stopping this time!!

I certainly have sore bits today - so I need to keep moving around and doing some stretching so I do not stiffen up too much. I think I will spend some time on Wii Plus - doing the yoga moves to stretch out my stiff old self!

Of course, I had a whole lot of orders from CHA arrive yesterday so I need to spend some time just sitting at the PC getting it all up on to the store website!

As promised yesterday I finally got around to taking some pics of my CHA projects. However I have not taken pics of them all - but here are the first lot - more tomorrow!

Ok this first pic is of a t-shirt I screen printed at the Plaid booth. It is from their Simply Screen line. So so easy. A stencil that you lay down (and can reuse) - splodge on your paint, drag down the squeegee and voila! Done! The paints come in metallics as well as normal and neon colours. Total cost of a stencil and a paint around $13.00 plus whatever you are screening - who needs Yudu when you can have this for an INTH of the cost.

I will be investing in some of these as there are lots of stencils - loads of colours (which last!) - and you can also paint in with a brush for more detailed looks, or changes in colour.

OK you might be wondering what the mask is all about. It was actually a make and take at the Glue Arts booth - showing how their different adhesives work. I was already sold on their Glue Gliders - but I am now enamoured with their ribbon adhesive too - that is how I put down the strip of glitter - best thing I have used for glitter ever!

Next on the block is the necklace I made at the Making Memories booth.

This is the new line of Vintage jewellery from Jill Schwartz.

I could have happily stayed there all day - playing and making jewellery - even though I seemed to be all thumbs trying to use two jewelery pliers at the same time!

Finally I did not make this - but included it to show you the new line of flower & specialty plain white embellishments from Petaloo called Color Me Crazy. You can stamp them, ink them, paint them ,Smooch them, Spritz them, glitter them - the possibilities are endless!