Since I last wrote, I made a Christmas stocking for my daughter, a tablecloth for the breakfast nook, two knit hats, dining room curtains, bowling pin pirates, a restaurant highchair seat cover, a crib duvet set with pillowcases and sheet, a skirt, a Minnie Mouse halloween costume, a handful of fabulous cakes, and it seems like there should have been more on that list to account for all the time I spent, but I don't see anything else to add. And until now, you knew nothing about it.
But it's time to get cracking. I just finished reading Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
today, and I'm totally not interested in most of the food she wore herself out cooking. However, she did inspire me to A) be a faithful blogger, B) persevere no matter what, and C) take on a mountainous year-long project. I've been organizing my work room - I discovered that messes and lack of organization really unsettle me - and in doing so, I was forced to go through all the unfinished projects I have lying around in the attempt to find homes for all the crap on the floor. I counted 28. So my 2012 resolution is to finish all the crafts that I have materials for, before I buy materials for any new and distinct projects. I'll allow myself to buy additional materials if they're needed to finish something, but not because they're pretty or on sale or possibly useful at some point in the future. I think it'll be nice to go in my work room and say, "What can I make today?" rather than "What is all this? Why am I storing it? What did I buy that for, again? Oh, that's so cute, it'll be great when I get it done."
I'll attempt to write about it fairly regularly, but no promises because I still have to take care of my daughter and keep house and make dinner and finish laundry and be ready for the evening classes I teach a couple of nights a week.
But this year, the project mountain will become a molehill.
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