I did it!

Well, I did it... I ran (well, jogged) 4km! My time was 32min and 35 seconds - not too bad me thinks. :)

Have you seen this girl??

Have you seen this girl at a gym near you??


I'm posting this completely unflattering picture of myself because I need your help. This is what I look like when I go to the gym... although, don't let the glasses fool you - sometimes I wear contacts. :)

Over 2 years ago, I started on a quest to be able to run 4km in 30 minutes... I got very close... less than a minute off before I found out I was pregnant with Amani. I started back up again and have managed to get it down to just over 32 minutes but now I'm stuck. My head is trying to psyche me out.... the last couple of months have been hard with the girls and myself being sick... it feels like I've barely gotten a chance to get to the gym.

And that's what my head is focusing on at the moment..... "You can't do it", "You're not as fit as you used to be" etc etc. I started jogging again about 3 weeks ago but haven't yet tackled the 4km because part of me says I can't do it. But you know what? That stupid part of my brain is wrong! The other day I managed to run at 10km/hr for a minute and a half - the longest I've been able to do in ages! I also thought "I can't do 4km so I'll just do 1km and see how fast I can do it.".... I ran it faster than I did a few months ago! And then I did it again yesterday and smashed my time again.

So if you see me at the gym and I'm not running, tell me to RUN! And if I am running, tell me to RUN FASTER! Tomorrow I AM going to do 4km and we'll see what my time is. :)

And on another note, here are some pretties that I've managed to finish over the last few weeks. Enjoy!





Thanks for stopping by!

August 123 Challenge

I'm a little bit late blogging about this... you'll have to forgive me this one time. :) We've all had a cold/flu in this house over the last few weeks so I've fallen a bit behind on some things. Our computer also died so I've had to try and do everything with the laptop.... When they plugged in our PC to see what was wrong with it the motherboard actually caught on fire! Not good....

Anyway, this months 123 Challenge is:

Word: "What"
Colour: Black
Technique: Multiple photos.

I had to actually dig and find some photos for this one... it's actually been ages since I used any. So here's my sample for this months challenge:


Hopefully I'll be back soon with some more paintings I've been working on as well as details for art journal classes that I'll be teaching in Rockhampton. :)

Bye for now!