fourthmonth

I’ve made progress on this goal! I live in Knoxville and my last post was the first new place I visited- Market Square. Its been really neat learning about the place I live- I never realized how many interesting things there are to explore! Here are the next new places I have visited…

Place #2- Knoxville Gardens and Arboretum … with cedars of Lebanon and whimsical round stone buildings from the 1700’s. Beautiful!

Place #3- Yee-Haw Industries … They print publications on antique Gutenberg-style printing presses. I got to meet the owner and see how they do their work.

Place #4- Knoxville Museum of Art. Interesting exhibits, and a neat interactive art room for kids that my little girl enjoyed.

Place #5- Museum of East Tennessee History. It was open for free on the day of a history festival! Very neat place- they have Davy Crockett’s actual first gun.

Place #6- Knoxville Visitor’s center – free bluegrass concert each day at noon for the Blueplate Special!

Place #7- World’s Fair Park & Sunsphere. Knoxville hosted the World’s Fair in 1982 and in the park you can go up in the Sunsphere for free and get a good view of the city.

Place #8- Tennessee Theater. Beautifully restored in 20’s art nouveau style. Free concert on the first Monday of the month at noon- bring a brown-paper bag lunch and enjoy the music!

Only two places to go!

So, I think that “3 pounds to go” was a fluke, because it was a sudden big drop and I continued exercising and by the next week I was up about 7 lbs. Arg! But I have been slowly yet surely dropping since then and I now only have 2 lbs to go- and this time it should stick!

Several months I found a lovely 50’s-ish vintage blouse at a thrift store and picked it up for about $1.25. Sweet! It has been hanging in my closet ever since, because it really did not fit at all. The sleeves were not a good shape and the blouse itself was just way too big. It was designed to be tucked in, so it was really long had no shape, since the waist of the skirt would give it definition. I don’t like wearing tops tucked it, so I altered it to fit me, and I changed the shape of the sleeves (It has short sleeves and I put a little box pleat at the base of the sleeve to help it fit and kind of “balloon” at the shoulder where there was already some gathering) It had a tie/sash at the neck and I just really love the way it turned out! I wasn’t sure what my husband would think, but when I showed it to him, he loved it too! I wore it on Sunday. I still want to add a couple little black buttons on the bottom of the sleeves, but otherwise my first vintage alteration is complete- for less than 2$! I’ll try to put up a picture of it.