I’ve never been big in making and/or keeping New Year’s
Resolutions. I mean, when wrapped up in
the moment of NYE (which someone usually has to wake me up at 11:58 p.m. for…..not
one minute earlier either, cause I will fall back asleep if left unattended!) I
tell myself things like “be healthy”, “do this crafty thing that I’m not that
good at”, etc. but they’re never very specific and I rarely follow up on them
throughout the year, let alone remember what it was I was thinking was a
fantastic resolution back on Dec. 31st/Jan 1st. I will say that I probably don’t remember
them cause I’ve been asleep for 2-3 hours and was just woken up 2 minutes
earlier for the ball drop, and will promptly go right back to sleep at 12:02
a.m.
Over the past year Rachel over at Maybe Matilda has done a monthly Goal list which included crafts, health, her family and home. You will also see that at month end she would
follow up on her successes along with what she would continue to work on in the
following month. I really like this
idea!!! Make a list on the first of the
month of what you want to accomplish in the next 28-31 days. When you only have 30ish days to accomplish the
task at hand, you’re much less likely to make a totally unobtainable goal (think
“I’m going to train for and run my marathon in 20__” on NYE vs. “I’m going to
run 3 miles 4 times a week in the month of January June”).
So, I guess my Resolution for 2014 is to make a monthly goal list,
which I will share here on the first of the month and follow up at month’s end
to report back on how I did!
Be sure to click on this to see a larger version - there are lots of teeny-tiny photos included, many that haven't made it on here or Facebook!
I started this picture collage as a “background” for my New Year’s
Resolution Overview. I thought I’d use a
few pictures, and then plop a white box with an overview list of the things I
want to work on in 2014 on top. As you
can see, there wasn’t enough room for my list so below is my basic
overview. This is all just off the top
of my head, a little last minute now cause I’m exhausted from formatting all
those pictures!
- Finish one WIP a month
- Christmas gift I-O-U’s from 2013 (hopefully before mid-year!)
- Start working on Christmas 2014 gifts in January
- Try one new pattern a month
- Continue to increase my custom order sales, especially through ETSY
- Start cooking again - and share my favorite recipes with you
- Be better at blogging (both frequently/consistency of my posts and what/how I’m blogging)
- Continue to work hard on our house re-model in hopes of having closer to 4 or 5 rooms finished by the end of 2014
Additions and details will come each month. Looking forward to tracking this goal process
throughout the next 12 months and see if a year from now, I feel as though I’ve
accomplished more than previous years.
I must also say that by the time I was done formatting this chaotic
collage, I realized that this display of previous projects (no, there are not
all 2013 projects, just the pictures that I was able to easy pull off my
computer) is very representative of all the crafty ideas that run through my
head on a daily basis:
REALITY - You only have ‘this’ much time to work on and/or finish a
project.
HOLLY’S DREAM WORLD - but, I want to crochet ALL THE THINGS in half the
time!
SIMILARITY - I must have deleted 25 pictures that I tried to cram in with what made the cut
Maybe I should add “be more realistic about how much crocheting you can
get done in a given evening” to the list above….eh, there’s always 2015!
2013 was a challenging year for me.
One that I feel was the best yet and one of the worst hardest.
I wish you all the very best in 2014.
Happy New Year!
