Last January, I decided not to share my goals/intentions on my blog. It was an interesting year, and although I accomplished many things, I didn’t do a very good job of keeping track of them! I’d like to do better about keeping a list in 2018. I won’t share every little detail on my blog, but I’ll share a lot of my projects!
In 2017, I tried not to be as rigid in setting goals for myself and then assessing my progress on a regular basis. There were definitely good things about this approach, but I also felt like I didn’t have a good sense of my priorities and how I was achieving my goals. So as we start in on a new year (holy moly), I decided that I’m going to share a list of what I hope to do creatively in 2018:
- scrapbook more: make layouts! (at least one per month?) and figure out some sort of process for documenting stories that don’t need a whole layout, possibly pocket pages…
- finish my son’s album by his birthday (it’s still essentially at the point that I discussed in THIS post)
- make significant progress on my Disney 2016 album (photos placed, layouts made)
- finish my Grenada journal
- make photo books: Day-in-the-life 2016, 2017 (and probably 2018) and Hersheypark 2015
- color at least once per week (more on this to come!)
- sew a new purse for myself
- sew more garments (I have some patterns and fabric lying in wait…)
As you can see, paper crafting projects have a large emphasis on this list. Toward the end of 2017, I was sewing almost exclusively (while still keeping up with my photos fairly well), and although I LOVED the sewing, I also really missed my physical memory-keeping projects.
This list will give me a framework for setting my monthly project hopes/intentions/goals. It will almost certainly evolve throughout the year, but I really do want to make good progress on some of those longer-term projects that have been on my mind. I intend to keep a master list in my planner of the projects I finish throughout the year so that I have a bit of accountability and encouragement to keep going!
Here’s to 2018!
Vegetablog 
Do you continue to make albums for the kids after the first year? My son is definitely getting a first year album but I struggle with the idea of taking the time to do anything more than one family album and a vacation album per year.
Hi Nat, my intention is just to scrapbook everything together. The albums are really just for me, and later on, they can decide what to do with them. Even the first-year photo-a-day albums are a glimpse into the life of our whole family, just focused on that child.
That being said, like I mentioned in the post, I’m still trying to get my head around how to prioritize stories and photos for the years since I’ve had children into a manageable system. I had hoped to jump into that a bit last year, but I got sucked into all of my sewing (which I loved!) instead…
I hear you on that. I’m of course finding I have such little time for projects that I’m considering how I devote my time.