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my new year’s resolutions {also called my to do list for 2011}

December 31, 2010 By 8 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone, or happy new year if we are already at the other side when you read this. I’m really excited for 2011, especially as I will be starting it with some holidays for my “other” job!

So, I thought I would share my new year’s resolutions, although really they are like a list of things I want to achieve for the year. I plan to print them out and pin them up too, to keep myself accountable and on track. It’s a bit of an eclectic mix of things that I need to do, or things that have struck a chord with me or things I want to improve on. I gathered all my thoughts and notes and brought them together into a list of actions. Some are simple, some will be ongoing. I would like to think it is a realistic list for the new year.

And I’ve put them into a list of 11 for 2011 {which I have seen around but now can’t remember where …}. The first few relate to my creative goals for 2011 {tagged cg}. I haven’t included them all here but instead have included a few to “action”. Over the next few weeks and beyond, I’ll also be sharing some of the ways I’m ticking off the items on my list and turning them into doing.

The list of 11 for 2011:

  1. Grow my blog and shop {cg}
  2. Start a Lime Lane newsletter {cg}
  3. Improve my book-keeping {cg}
  4. Set sales targets {cg}
  5. Get organised ~ which could really entail about 37 others lists but I’ll keep it short and sweet {cg}
  6. Look at ways to improve our eating habits {see point 5}
  7. Send more mail
  8. Buy more handmade gifts {also see point 5}
  9. Take more photos
  10. Donate blood ~ at least make an appointment to find out if I can again {inspired by this lady ~ hope she doesn’t mind me linking to this but I thought it was one of the most inspiring posts this year}
  11. Focus on quality family time {again, point 5}

Just a note on No.11, one thing my, albeit brief, experience with #reverb10 taught me, was that those moments of the year that truly made a mark on me, were very extraordinary moments of family time in ordinary situations. I want to make sure we have more opportunities to create those moments.

Have you made a list for 2011. Feel free to share it here, or leave a link to your own blog. I find other’s people lists really inspiring, usually full of lots of ideas I can adopt for my own life.

And, of course:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

 

 

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january calendar download

December 31, 2010 By 2 Comments

I tell you what, the whole new year thing really hit me when creating the calendar for January, because I had to type 2011. Wow, 2011. What happened to 2010?

So here we are, on the eve of a new year, new month, new day, a new calendar.

I’ve used my typewriter photo I took earlier this month for some bright-coloured pop to start the new year. I’ve tweaked the design, too, to add a little to do list down the side to write things {you can never have too many lists}.

The file is a pdf ~ right-click on the link and Save Target/Link As.

Get your January calendar here

If you have any trouble downloading the files, please email me and I will send one out to you ~ just let me know the size.

{for personal use only, feel free to share but link back to this post ~ thank you}

 

 

 

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new year calendar sale

December 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

After the success of my last-minute Christmas gift sale, I’m running a quick sale on all the printable calendars in my Etsy shop. From today until January 2, all PDF calendars are half-price.

This includes the printable Letters calendar ~ now only $3 ~ and the DIY calendar ~ now only $1.

All pdfs will be emailed within 24 hours. Please make sure you choose the correct one ~ A4 or US letter size.

Shop here

ps. Aussie buyers. If you would like to take advantage of this on madeit, go right ahead and shop, wait for a new invoice or I will refund the discount via paypal.

 

 

 

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my creative space: making a list …

December 30, 2010 By 6 Comments

Well the Christmas lists are done and dusted so now it is on to that other list: one for 2011. Are you doing a list for 2011 ~ things you want to do, see, make, grow? I think that really it can be a list of anything. Mine is a list of achievements really ~ things I want to do, get done, achieve in 2011.

So, today, I’m thinking, jotting down, writing, reading. I’ve done a little download for you too {see below}, my little brainstorming sheet for intentions, goals, resolutions, whatever you want to call it, for 2011. I need to scribble down some of the jumbled thoughts in my head before I can make a proper list. And this year I really want a proper list, I’m in danger of putting too much pressure on myself or spending days trying to make the perfect list. I think I will make January 1, 2011 a very firm deadline!

In the meantime, I’ve also gathered some links to get you thinking and inspired, if  you are so inclined, on the starting the new year.

And for business:

If you would like a copy of the sheet above, click here.

The file is a pdf ~ right-click on the link and Save Target/Link As.

Check back tomorrow for the January calendar download ~ I’ve given the layout a little tweak!

 

 

 

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the three r’s ~ reflection, resolutions, reverb

December 29, 2010 By 2 Comments

Well, it’s that time of year isn’t it? Looking back on the past, looking ahead to the future ~ reflection.

I have totally dropped the ball on #reverb10 {there’s a resolution in there somewhere!}, one day behind turned into many. I read the prompts each day and thought about them, just never got anything down. Mind you, some of them weren’t really sparking anything with me. Also, some prompts I find myself thinking of the same things I have already written about. But I thought I would do a quick catch-up in what I may have learned from the ones in the past one {two?} weeks as we ready for the biggest and best fresh start of all, a new year.

I’m calling this speed reflection, which I think misses the point a tad, but it has still been an interesting process. Without further ado:

  • Capture only five minutes: laughter
  • Friendship: Takes more work than I have been giving it {must work on that}
  • Lesson learned: I am live in a world of organised chaos, and it is actually not how I like to live!
  • Try: To be better
  • Travel: There are places I want to see in the world, but I hate leaving my home. In fact, I get quite anxious about it. I need to let go and be a bit more of an adventurer.
  • Ordinary joy: This is one of the recurrent ones, laughter: spontaneous children’s laughter, those moments when we are all in unanimous giggles
  • Achieve: Growth. My resolutions and creative goals.

This isn’t all the prompts and while I haven’t devoted the time to this that I perhaps should have or wanted to, it has been a really good process leading up to a new year and setting up some goals for 2011. It has helped me pinpoint those things that stood out and which are obviously important to me.

Do you make resolutions or goals for the new year? Last year I struggled with setting any, but this year I am excited and ready to start a new year with some firm targets in mind.

I’ll be sharing my resolutions later in the week, as well as some great links I found about making and keeping resolutions {or goals, or whatever you like to call them}.

Also:

  • The new year will bring something a little new to le blog that I have been working on
  • There will be another sale on my printable calendars
  • a January calendar download
  • And early in the new year, a special mini-print sale

 

 

 

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