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I wanted a place to air out my resolutions… really for me to put it all out there for my accountability. I am not good at routine and sticking to things. I get side tracked. I want to have something to look back on and see what I have crossed off and what I haven’t at the end of the year.

::the blog and podcast::

I really want to continue to do the interviews with me one week and a featured guest the other week

find more home, cooking, and non sewing related blogs to sprinkle in with the sewing blogs

so some tv series talks – like downtown abby for one (oh and let you know my other series I like on Amazon Prime), project runway is another (maybe get someone to do a weekly chat about them on the podcast)

projects that I tackle – I want to share some of my personal projects around the house and in the sewing room

some patterns and other products from me

::me::

to keep up with my MS planner – I need to share how I hacked my MS disk bound planner to fit me

do the couch to 5k plan on my phone (we walk daily but I want to try to enjoy running currently I don’t:)

stay off social media and blogs and focus on me and my family more – or find a happy balance (deleting social media apps off my phone was step one)

try to write more personal notes to mail to friends and family letting them know how much I love them (it is a joke with my friends that I am the only person that still sends snail mail and they all love it)

keep up with us more – I got a project life for Christmas and I really want to finish this one and not give up half way (I may have had that happen in 2013)

::Sewing::

to make at least 12 things – quilts, bags, clothes, whatever

to make some quilt as you go quilts like Maureen – I think it would help me not dread the quilting step

also to make more original stuff or patterns but with my own twist on them

finish my big heart quilt for the girls room

make something with my fresh cut stash to put on my bed

::house::

go through the before and afters of my house (we speed renovated our house in 2 weeks and did some amazing stuff)

to paint my china cabinet (that is huge) emerald green with some silver-ish accents

work on a solution for a upper kitchen cabinets

organize laundry room and perhaps get some cabinets above the washer and dyer

a new rug for the living room

paint the porch columns white

::family::

more awareness of the NOW

continue to do things in the church that involve the girls (vbs, family night, and christmas pageant)

volunteer at both girls schools to help when needed with their teachers

get our garden BOOMING this year

try to get some chickens (aka talk my husband into it or talk my dad into building me a coop and just surprising John:)

having some parties with our friends whether formal or informal (okay more likely the later!) but have friends over more

Okay… that is a lot but I know this will help me. I will like looking back on this at the end of the year. So do you make goals and plans for the New Year?