It's ALL About ME! (Yeah Right...)

Well I'm a 28 yr old mommy to my son, who is about to be 2 at the end of the month. I stay at home with him and try to keep the house from looking like a tornado went through it....lol..... the tornado being my toddler. My hubby is a Staff Sgt. for the United States Army, but this will be his last year of active duty. I named this blog the shrinking girl and her hobby because I had gastric bypass on December 20,2005. At the time I weighed 339lbs. Now just a little under four months later I weigh 256 lbs and still loosing. To keep myself occupied on something other than food, I started finding hobbies for myself. Enter my addiction, the Knifty Knitters. I quickly realized I could only make my family only so many knitted hats, so I started a group at my church to make hats for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Medical College of Georgia (my son is a former patient of that facility). In about 6 weeks, we have delivered 82 Hats and four sets of booties to MCG, and we've sent 14 Adult Hats to soldiers serving in IRAQ. I hope to add a pic of the hats that the group did, but I don't currently have a picture. We currently have about 14 members, with more showing interest every week. I'm loving it!

Right now I'm adding a new project for myself. I want to knit two Harry Potter scarfs and two matching hats for my nephews (ages 10 and 4) for this coming Christmas. I've bought the yarn and found the KK pattern on the yahoo group for KK owners. I found a website that makes Harry Potter Patches (patchpalace.com) at a very reasonable price so I'm ordering a set to hand sew on the scarfs once I'm finished for a really authenic look. I can't wait to get started.

Another interest of mine is that I just started taking a Wilton's Decorating Class. I'm doing this so I can decorate my son's birthday cake. It's really funny if you think about it cause I can't eat the cake.Another reason I'm taking the class is the fact that I can't stand the cakes at Wallyworld (too sugary and half the staff aren't trained very well). My mom's parents actually ran a cake and donut shop when my mom was a kid and teenager and my mom still makes the most gorgeous cakes. So I wanted to see if I had just a little bit of her creative genes hidden somewhere in my body...lol. I just went to the first class this past Monday. I was so shocked about how much stuff I needed for the class. Thank God my state refund just came in, because my grand total was.......... drum roll, please........... 84.32 for supplies..... And I still need to go get toothpicks, parchment paper, foil, crisco, powdered sugar, and a few cake mixes. Thank god Michaels at least had a special that the class itself was half off.....lol.

My son is obsessed with cars, especially Hot Wheels( see the picture?). So in honor of that obsession, his party will be Hot Wheels themed. I also found a Wilton Cake Pan that is a 3D Car Cake. So that will be what I get to practice on for next Monday's class. The teacher told me to bring the unfrosted cake as my "practice" before I actually make it for guests on his party on the 29th. Until next time!