birds

a cardinal stopped by my peanut butter post to say hello. it made my day.

First Sale

I made my first official sale on Etsy today!!! I'll be sending out a handmade print of an old fashion bicycle on cardstock. woo hoo!!

now if only etsy+paypal didn't take a $1 cut of that!

my new shop

Enough Change? Doesn't look like it.

I just found a great site that is trying to make a difference in climate control in the world today. What it does is try to make an estimate on how the current proposals from around the world would effect the future global temperatures as compared to pre-industrial temperatures.



Feel free to grab this widget and post it on your own site. It will update automatically. and please check out the climateinteractive.org website.  And why not throw another one at you just for kicks.

my first TAD

http://thing-a-day.com/

So the idea of thing a day is to make one thing everyday for the month of February with some basic rules. Rules like:

- it must be made on that day, not before, no past projects

- you can't copy anyone else's idea

- it can be ANYTHING

- post a photo

etc.

I'll keep you updated as I make my things! here's 2/1:

DC Half Marathon Here I Come

uh oh. Guess who's signed up for another endurance event :) Let the training really begin!

The DC Half Marathon is on March 26th which gives me about 2 months or 8 weeks of training. it's going to be close.

Weekly schedule:

Monday-rest

Tuesday - intervals/speed training

Wednesday - cross training

Thursday - 5-6 miles

Friday - rest

Saturday - long run (starting at 6 miles and increasing 1-2 miles each week)

Sunday - 3-4 miles at an easy, 'conversational' pace.

I am so excited about this event because I have at least 3!! running buddies from the NYC Marathon training days that are also signed up for the event. I CANNOT wait to see them again and hope to enjoy a nice pasta dinner the night before the race! given that running is 'back' in my life expect many more posts on the training/food/scheduling that all revolve around endurance events.

ever wonder what it would be like to run a half marathon? why not sign up for one and train with me?! let me know if you're interested so I can talk you into it!!

more information can be found here. Who doesn't want to run around monuments!

homemade breakfast

a delicious breakfast with some fresh honey oat bread made yesterday and some hot tea.