Recovering from the Holidays

After the hustle and bustle of the holidays, crafters like me tend to take a break from last minute gifts quickly crocheted/knitted/crafted to wrap and box.  That is exactly what I did.  I made it about a week before the itch to create came back to me.  As I neared the end of 2013, I glanced at the amount of patterns I started to design and develop and almost cried.  There was around 25-30.  How could that be?  How could I have started that many projects and never finish? 

*shifty eyes*

Okay!  Okay!  Like some...if not most...crafters, I have put myself in a position to jump from project to project without committing to finish.  Which is how I now have a huge tub of scrap yarn from unfinished WiPs that I frogged.  For those non-crocheters/knitters, WiPs stands for Work in Progress and frogged is...rip it out or ribbit.  Not only have I know have lots of scraps, but I amassed a large amount of yarn over the last few years without really using it.

This...is how I came to one of my goals for 2014.

1.  Do not buy any new yarn until I use a majority of what I have.  (Yep...crafters...I made the goal.)

2. Finish the patterns I started to develop in 2013 by the end of 2014.  This gives me a lot to do and perhaps some new revenue.

3. Create a list of items I want to develop into patterns and try to finish them as well.  So far...the list hit around 20.

If you have been keeping count...that is around 50 patterns to develop and attempt to sell this year.  And that is how I find myself tonight...alone...in the bed...under the covers attempting to stay warm, crocheting one of my old 2013 patterns.  It is turning out cute if I do say so.  Either way, I wanted to share pictures of my tree this year.  We usually do not go all out and this year is the same.  It's simple and fits the handcrafted, passed down ornaments from our childhoods and some I created myself.

Our 2013 Christmas Tree

Underneath is the small tree skirt I made. 

And this...is one of our newest ornaments.  My roommate and one of my very best friends is a HUGE coffee drinker.  So, he received this coffee mug ornament (with the coffee the way he likes it) as a gift from me.  He loved it!

Either way, I hope that you had a wonderful holiday - whatever it might have been.  Have you decided to create goals for 2014?  Or just going with the flow?

Sarah