2011 Here I Am

Goals for 2011

• Organize your craft room.  Make it awesome and beautiful!!!!!

 This isn't so bad, actually; I'm embarrassed to post a recent photo.

 Yeah...That green shelf has to be straightened.  Some things don't belong there, some things need to be finished.

• Make a Household Binder and USE it.  This will hold: recipes I love, recipes to try, pre-printed shopping lists, bills to pay checklist, cleaning checklist (by room then by daily, weekly, monthly tasks), goals 2011, project list, daily checklist, important things to do, garden care checklist.
• Develop basic woodworking skills.
• Plant a garden in spring.
• Take a ceramics class.
• Participate in Paw Paw Garden and Craft Show
• Use Stuff Up
• I have certain items that I’ve had for years and done nothing with.  This is it; if they aren’t used they are going away.  Fountain pump, plain wooden shoes, 2 brayers, fabric paint, scrap booking supplies, yarn, rope for coil bowls, baby food jars.
• 100 projects completed (minimum)
• Give private sewing lessons or crafting lessons during the summer.
• Work on and learn a new skill each month.
• Canning & preserving, Soap making, Knitting, Granny squares, Advanced crochet, Advanced sewing skills, Felting, Doll making, Wine making, beer making, Henna painting, Secret Compartment books, Gravy making, Tie a tie, Jump start a car, Advanced photography
• Write a rough draft of a novel
• Keep blogging
• Read 5 books
• Give your clutter to Goodwill.  Don't get tempted to have another garage sale.  
• Lose at least one more clothing size.  
• Get a job as an Art Teacher
• I need to update/redo all that fun job interview stuff.
• K-12 curriculum – Write lessons, do all your projects multiple times, and take photos.
• Greatly improve your drawing skills – Fill a journal. 
• Basic Spanish – enough to put on resume
• Basic German
• Basic Japanese
• Plan and book Japan trip for November 2012

Photos and Documentation

• Take as many photos as last year.  And use camera 10 days per month (at least).
• Take photos of Paw Paw once a month (at least).
• Take one video of my family per month (at least).
• Scan photos from old albums to computer
•  Document my children’s progress in art
• I don’t plan to keep all drawings and crafts but I do want photos of each one and a record of when, by who, and cute kid comments about them (even videos). 

Planned and Underway Projects 2011

1. Shutteryfly Baby Album 
2. Household Binder. Recipes I love, recipes to try, preprinted shopping lists, bills to pay checklist, cleaning checklist (by room then by daily, weekly, monthly tasks), goals 2011, project list, daily checklist, important things to do.
3. Hem baby shirts with bottom snaps.  
4. Coffee lap quilt w/ light boarder  
5. Coffee lap quilt w/ dark boarder
6. 20 cat mice for TAILS donation 
7. Rice bed warmers 
8. 4 Barbies & 10 Kens are NAKED.  Make one outfit each. 
9. Write your mommy tips down.  Make it a cute little book to give out as a gift to new mommies.  
10. Paint wooden shelve tower thingy
11. Hideaway book technique 
12. 100 Cat toys 
13. Spray paint door knocker and attach
14. Pink Themed Quilt
15. Various Unfinished Quilts (Pictured list to follow)

Lots of stuff to accomplish this year and I'm super optimistic about what's to come!