Gathering my thoughts

Some days you just need to sit down and gather your thoughts, don't you.

I think, Christmas is pretty much on my mind most of the year really. I love it. No getting away from it, I'm obsessed. So today, you'll find me making some notes on things like, colour schemes, crafting projects, new recipes to try and cookies to bake.

You'll also find me thinking of new and unusual passwords, as sadly my PayPal account was hacked.

So all in all, its defiantly a sit down with a cup of tea, and make some plans and well, pretty planners, make it all that much more fun.

I do of course have more than one Christmas board over on Pinterest, but here's the main one, if you're interested.  I share some of the others with you another time.

Follow Sandra's board Christmas on Pinterest.

Do please let me know, if you have a Christmas board, as I'd love to pop over and have a look.

This Year I will .....

I've set myself some goals .... If I don't, I tend to faff and time just runs away from me. Now I'm not saying this is going to stop me faffing and personally, I think that if Faffing were a sport, I'd have won the gold medal for it.

Its a work in progress plan, and I'm also hoping that I'll be adding to it; but I thought if I at least share my goals with you, it may somehow keep me on track.

So right ... here we go, oh and I apologize now, its a wordy post;

Creative Plans 

DO SOMETHING CREATIVE EVERYDAY

Try and keep up to date on PL ; longest to be behind … 2 weeks

Scrap Italy and Birthday album

Silver Anniversary album

SCRAP MORE ; and scrap older photos ... don't beat yourself up with rushing or being up to date
LEARN TO CROCHET

Organize my desk for house/planner etc.

Quilt and hexis

SORT OUT A WORKING CRAFT ROOM, ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!

Make at least 4 cards ready for birthdays/anniversary a month

Get planner organized

Check out my classes on Big Picture

Sort out my Pinterest boards

Have a “crop” bag at the ready

Get some kits together to be able to scrap whenever

Get inspiration book organised 

Send photos to print from Photobox

Sort out a Project Life area

Sew more – complete dressmaking projects and also Sewing projects for our home

Do a quilt square a month

Those were my creative hopes for 2015; now onto what I'd like to get into the routine of sharing on my blog;

Blogging Plans

Project Life spread

Scrapbooking share - try and join in with a few more challenges

Little House updates

How I'm getting on with this being my year of de-cluttering and organisation

Sewing projects/Quilting ventures 

Now each month I'm hoping to do some decluttering and sorting out of our home. These will often go into the next month, and the one after that, no doubt. But again ... I hope to share my plan for that month with you all at the start of each month, as a way of also keeping me on track.

JANUARY – main list

Major clean after decorations down and put house straight
clear out kitchen cupboards; check dates etc.,
Start on the dining room makeover

o    New covers for chairs

o    Empty and sort through sideboard

o    Remove all books from cases and have a good clean and sort through

o    Paint Fireplace

o    Paint Sideboard

Organise "household desk"

Write up calendar

Write up and decorate Filofax

Sort out 2015 budget and files

Clear/delete and file emails from machines

Start sorting out photos

Download and clear off 2014 photos from phone

Get a blogger planner in place

Make up a decluttering and organization planner in place for this year

Puppy proof the house and garden

Right, I think I'll leave it there as yes, I've faffed with this post for too long lol. 

While writing this Mr Postman knocked on the door and handed me a parcel from Studio Calico ... and the gorgeousness inside has made me very happy ... So, that's another tick for one of my lists ... get my planner organised.

Thanks for reading through all this x

Empty Pages

Something so inviting about a new start. I love a fresh calendar, and the first page of a diary or notebook. They give us so much to think about.

So here we go .... I'm jumping into 2014 with new vigour.  I'm making plans and writing new year resolutions. Oh its an exciting time.

This morning I've been catching up with my blog reading and seeing all your resolutions, so I thought I'd share my goals for 2014 too.

Create .... create and then create some more.

Ok, that was short and simple

Yes, I could say, eat healthy, lose weight, blog more, but hey, you know that I'm always saying that. So for now, I'll settle with create lovely things this year.

For the love of Organisation

I love organisation ... my label maker and I are the best of friends. 

At the beginning of the year, like most of us, I sat down and wrote out my goals for the future.  One of the main ones was to get my act together with the de-clutter that seems to be growing by the minute. 

We have a shed full, and trust me I mean full, of boxes of things from Mum & Dads.  Most things I gave to the scouts and to charity shops – but some things, I thought might come in useful.  And … yup I was right.  Mum & Dad had hundreds of cd’s; records & cassette tapes – music was always on when I was little.  Anyway, I thought that these boxes would be good for holding inks in my craft room – and they’re perfect.

 
I also have one with all my Promarkers in – I just coloured little dots in with the colours and put them at the end, and now I can see what I have at a glance.

I’m also a huge Filofax fan – yes I know I can keep my diary on my phone, but I think it’s just a stationery thing, but I love my Filofax.  So with that thought in mind, and the fact that if I ever see a craft shop while I’m out and about, my bag would be with me. I decided to make a not of the colours of inks I have, so as not to buy duplicates.

I know I’m late to the party and I don’t have many mists, but I thought I could start keeping a record of these too.

So, it looks like I’m doing well with my goals; decluttering and getting organised .... fingers crossed it continues.