As I have mentioned before, I love making resolutions. The demand planner in me likes to choose something that pushes my current limits and is measurable. Then, because I am unable to help myself I usually have multiple resolutions.
Since it is a brand new decade, I decided to follow the trend of 20 goals for 2020. I treated myself to a quilters planner because I was determined to get my sewjo back and this years custom usable options meant that I could use it as my bullet journal too.
These were:
There is a mix of financial, hobbies, health and business. For each I built a tracker within the planner and here is my current progress for each of them.
These three were very much, I did them or a didn’t. We have tackled the attic in two parts today’s. We have found old cuddly toys, books, clothes I kept in hope to fit into again and so much more. We still have a 1/3rd to tackle! Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt starts in November and The Dragon Age goal has been on my resolutions for 3 years!I love playing board games and I went on a binge buying session on the run up to Christmas and have yet to really play any of them because I have been so exhausted. Since most of the games we have can be played in 20-40 mins, then there is no reason this is not achievable. Especially as we are hoping to teach our son how to play some of the more grown up ones.Again, I have been feeling a little like I have neglected friends recently. The first plan I made was clearly cancelled due to COVID-19 but we still have the tickets for 2021. Well COVID-19 is still being a pain but fingers crossed I can add some dates in towards the end of the year.Oh the joys of exercise!!! I have no excuse for this being so low especially the weights. I have changed the walk from Paddington to the office to mean walking for 40-60 minutes. During lock down I didn’t leave the house and I wasn’t proactive enough to do my weights. I am planning to get more of this in now as part of my new morning routine and swimming I am desperate to get in especially if I can get into the sea over the August bank holiday whilst in Cornwall.Emily and I are huge movie fans. We love going to the cinema but with a 6 year old who is determined to hate anything called a movie, it is a struggle to get there even to see a Disney movie. Well now we have Disney+, Netflix and Amazon Prime. So with my new found ability to actually stay awake for longer periods this is something we are definitely doing more of. We now need to actually watch new movies rather than re-watching the Marvel ones 😀I don’t think this one really need explain actions after my last post. To me this means letting myself sit and do nothing, even if that means lying down with a book or taking the time on a Saturday to go through a full beauty routine before venturing downstairs and crafting. It is a switch off day, that has no guilt attached to it.So this is the Faerydae Stitches relevant goals. Obviously the closest I have come to this goal is the Blog post I made on Thursday. Though I have now doubled that to send you one today as well. You tube is going to take a little more thought and planning due to everyone being home though posts to the Faerydae Stitches group will definitely be back before September.This year it has been more important than ever to support the charities that you believe in and I have been giving what I can. Not mentioned here that I do regularly is adding items to our local food bank boxes at supermarkets. I do this because you never know when you might need this service and the thought of any of my friends or Xander’s friends going hungry, feeling too embarrassed to ask us for help just drives me crazy. Give what you can, whether it is money, time, old clothes, books, children’s toys or just popping into their shops to purchase less expensive items that you need.A lot of the Facebook groups I am in for quilting, Journalling, mixed media, and even popular tags on Instagram such as #purplerak and #getyourquiltywishesgranted, support the idea of sending other member of the groups little gifts in the post as a gesture of kindness and well wishes. These can be part of your stash because they are new to the craft and don’t have much or something you have made. I know how much I love receiving post especially containing things that someone bought because they thought of me or made and decided to pass it on. It is such an easy thing to do, that brings so much joy, when you craft a lot and can’t think of what to do with the things you make, or you have many online friends that you appreciate so much for being in you life despite never meeting in person.This one is in a similar vein but to random strangers and not necessarily craft related. Pay for someone’s coffee, buy a homeless person a meal, see someone crying and ask them if they are okay, tell a struggling mum in a supermarket that it’s okay she is doing a fantastic job! Not seeing many strangers at the moment but I do my best to uplift others online and being super grateful to everyone serving the nation at the moment to keep it running in whatever form that takes.
Sewing days! Last year I missed a lot of these due to various events and of course this year is no different. This is my most completed goal I think because I have really been making it a focus to have that time to create and zone in to it. Without my sew days there are no patterns. Well even with these sew days I have started any new patterns so that goal isn’t going very fast!
This is also something I want to add into my Etsy shop.. hand-bound junk journals. Then there are the various mixed media journals I am making for myself. I am keeping more journals nowadays and I want to get into a habit of documenting family holidays and events.And the last tracker I have to show you are my quilting works in progress! Look how many completed tops I have (green) that hasn’t hasn’t yet turned into a full quilt! I will share the second page of this list too.16 easy wins in total! And you see those last three… those are mystery quilts from the fabulous Lisa at Modern Quilt Club. Each month she will send you precursors fabrics to assemble across 10 months to form a quilt. So I have no pre-ironing, or cutting. All I have to do is sew the blocks together! Another 3 easy wins. I could be rocking this year with the quilt finishes! Watch this space.
So, are you a resolution maker? What type do you make? How do you keep track of your progress? If you don’t make resolutions… do you make goals at other times?
Hope you are all having the crafty time of your life and if you are not, then that’s okay. Sometimes making it through the day is the most creative we can be.
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