February Round-Up

So February flew by!  It's been a good month - I'm finished with the physio on my back and I made the team for the Newcastle bout on the 30th of March!  Sooooooo happy!  All the hard work has paid off - I'm exercising more, eating better, generally feeling good all round :D  Annnnnd, my Mario Week blog post has 101 views on!  That's 10 times more views than I usually get!  It also gave me my first comment ever too :D  
As for my monthly goals:

* Read at least one book a month
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs (the 2nd book in the Alpha and Omega series)
- another good read from the author.  Getting to know the characters better, although I'm beginning to feel like the lead male character is becoming a bit of a wuss!  
Zombie Roller Derby Chicks From Hell: A Dead Crow Book by Steven Farkas.
- this book, very quick read (only 55 pages) and the vocabulary felt like it had been translated from a different language into English, lol.

* Bake/Cook at least once a month
This month, I've managed to make spicy lentil soup AND low fat chocolate muffins!

 * Craft once at least once a month
 Busy month for crafting!  
- cross-stitch display for bedroom wall
- doodle bug (Mr. Fuzzy) to cheer up the Wiggy wife
- 14 pompom sheep 
- Yoshi perler bead

* Start taking more photos!  Get out once a month and photograph landscapes.
Failed, again :/

* Keep up with the Fatmumslim photo a day challenges!
As above, only worse than last month!  But I have been very busy with the sheep!  And having a memory like a sieve lately has made me forget to take photos each day.  So I've started writing them down on my daily "to do" list!

I can also cross off something from my yearly list:
* One footed laterals.
Finally got those in the bag! :D  And my bend and snap with the jump is coming along, but only when I don't think about it.....

Monday Makes

I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front this past week.  Remember the sheep from last Monday's makes?  Well.....I finished them :D

 

Here we have the Newcastle roster of the Parma Violents in pompom sheep form!!  I've decided I'm going to recreate them for the team so we all have our very own personal sheep for the bout on the 30th of March xD.  I've even started making some for the other Fiercies :)


It was also Mario week last week!  Wild Olive asked her followers to make something for this week.  Here's my contribution:

(Original pattern found by Guiox on deviant art)

He was even mentioned in Wild Olive's blog in her Your Mario Makes post :D

Inspired by this week, I've started work on a Mario bookmark:

(Original pattern found at Erica's Hook and Yarn blog)

I made great use of the "Oodles and Doodles" section of the organiser my mum bought me at christmas!

 

Aside from all the sheep and Mario crafting, I also managed to make a chicken lasagne at the weekend for me and my mum.  Already ticked off one of my monthly's only a few days in to a new month ;)