Revising New Year's Resolutions

Well, I see that my New Year's resolution has already been broken. How easy it is to make but so hard to keep. Maybe I should revise the resolution to, "I will write something at least twice a month." If I can continue doing that then increase postings to once a week. I think my life is probably too boring to post something every day.

I am just finishing up sending out prizes to the winners from our OhioQuilters first Stay-at-Home Retreat (from now on to be referred to as SAHR). The retreat was a huge success and could not have been on a better weekend. The weather was terrible. It was cold and icky outside. I was more than happy to be bundled up in a my natty old sweat clothes, spending the weekend sewing. Hopefully, we can come up with a plan to continue the SAHR's on a regular basis, perhaps quarterly.

Slowly Putting Christmas Aware

I spent the day putting Christmas away. I had planned to whittle down the amount of decorations that I would store. I couldn't bring myself to do it . So many of the ornaments have sentimental value. That is what happens when you collect items for 45 years. Six large totes of decorations to tuck away in the crawl space.

I displayed 5 Christmas trees this year. To be exact two large, one inside and one outside, a medium size tree and two table top trees. I still had four trees stored in the basement that I didn't include in this year's decoration. Maybe I will use more of them next Christmas.

The Best of Intentions

Where does the time go? I can't believe it has been several months since I last posted. The Holidays have come and gone. I spent today packing the Christmas decorations away. I still have a lot to do. Hopefully, I can finish tomorrow.

 I finally have my sewing stuff in the basement but still need to organize everything. Suddenly the basement is too small to hold my supplies so I need to purge. My OhioQuilters Yahoo group is having a stay-at-home retreat January 20, 21, and 22. I am missing my quilting group and am looking forward to some girl-time plus quilting even if it means "seeing" each other online. I need to have the basement cleaned and organized before the retreat so I can post a picture of my "clean" work area.

I am looking forward to a great new year. My goal this year is to finish as many of my UFO's as possible. It is time to put them to bed (get it?).