November 2016 goals and October recap

Hahahahahahahahahaha!  Did you see my October goals?  What a silly girl I was to think I could even accomplish half of them!  Haha!

• Costumes!  They got finished, but they dominated the month.
• Scrapbook at least one layout this month. Nope.  I wish!
• Make a couple cards. Does it count if my kids made cards? I made a few simple folding notes and did color a few stamped cards, so I suppose that I did actually partly accomplish this goal.
• Start on a Christmas gift?  I started, just barely.
• If there’s time, work on a garment sewing project for myself. Hahahahaha!  If there’s time!  Hahahaha!  No, I did not do any work on this goal.  I did acquire more fabric, though 🙂
• Exercise at least 3 times per week.  Yes!  I did!  I actually averaged at least four times per week.  Yay!
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.  I am learning how to study the Bible using homiletics, and it is so interesting!

Okay.  With October behind us, we are already full-steam-ahead into November, and I’m getting more regalia ornament orders.  So here are my goals.

• Make regalia ornaments.
• Keep up with my photos.  October was quite photo-heavy, especially right at the end, so I’m playing a bit of catch-up, too.
• Make activity books for my kids for Thanksgiving.
• Exercise at least three times per week, and add back some arms and abs exercises every day.
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.

There are a few “wishlist” things I’m keeping in mind:

• scan my kids’ artwork (I have quite the pile building up)
• add photos and embellishment to my Grenada journal (I’ve already ordered prints!)
• some sewing projects
• other scrapbooking???

Obviously, these are stretch goals, but I’m recording them here so that I can keep myself focused in case I have some (very) unexpected extra time!

 

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October 2016 goals and September recap

September turned out to be a good month for my goals!

• Get started on PhD ornament orders.  Like you probably saw, my shop is officially open for the holiday 2016 season!  I had six orders in the first two days of my shop opening, and I was able to complete them all within the month.  I’ll be showing the ornaments in blog posts in groups of four throughout the season–look for my first post soon!
• Finish a purple jersey knit shift dress that I started (and almost finished!) in August.  Done!  I wore it a few times when the weather was still quite hot in September, but I still haven’t gotten photos of it!  This week is supposed to be warm, and I’ll try to get some photos and write a blog post.  I’m pretty happy about the dress pattern.
• Tidy up my craft room.  I did do a pretty deep-dive tidy up, and instead of taking a whole Saturday and doing it in one chunk like I’d expected, I ended up doing it in bits and pieces.  It wasn’t quite as satisfying this way, but it got the job done, and that’s what matters.  I’m going back to my old way of storing stuff-to-scrapbook, and I’ve also made a pile of things I need to sew.  In the process of cleaning up, I was able to tackle a few not-so-exciting tasks to finally check them off my list– like putting more pages into my scrapbook albums and filling them with layouts.  It is so nice to have them in their rightful homes!
• SCRAPBOOKING!  As we approached the end of the month, I realized I hand’t done anything (aside from reorganizing my stuff-to-scrapbook) for this goal, and I was pretty disappointed in myself.  It really was that I was somehow avoiding scrapbooking, which is silly, because I love it.  I was just intimidated by the photos that I have on hand to scrapbook–my Disney ones, mostly.  They seem really important, and I am also missing some for the more”precious” stories, so I need to go through and plan some re-printing.  BUT, last week, I set a little “private” goal to see if I could make a layout each weekday.  I managed to do four in five days! (I didn’t account for the fact that one of my new roles this fall was going to absorb an incredible amount of my free time last week…)  One was my Wookiee page, and I finished three more– about Christmas 2009, of all things!  I will be posting them soon.  I LOVED the challenge of a layout-a-day.  It’s not realistic for a long-term challenge for me at this phase in my life, but I hope to challenge myself in this way more in the future.  One awesome benefit of trying to complete a layout each day was that I didn’t have time to fiddle around and try three gazillion different options.  I had to make decisions and stick with them.  It felt good.
• Exercise three times per week, along with my arms/abs/legs toning exercises.  There were weeks that I did 4 or 5 days of exercise!  Yay!  I LOVE my ballet class.  It is awesome!!  I didn’t keep up with the arms/abs/legs toning exercises– partly because I’m bored of them (I’ve been trying to do them daily for a number of months now), and partly because ballet is taking some of their place.  I’ve even been doing some barre videos (ballet barre, not the workout class) via YouTube at home.  I just love it.
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.  Done.

October is here and I’m not exactly sure what to expect!  There is always the chance for more regalia ornament orders, which take high priority around here!  But in the meantime…

• Costumes!
• Scrapbook some more (I’m hooked again after last week).  At least one layout this month.
• Make a couple cards.
• Start on a Christmas gift?
• If there’s time, work on a garment sewing project for myself.
• Exercise at least 3 times per week.
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.

Wish me luck!

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September 2016 goals and August recap

I knew that August was going to be a busy month, and I tried to plan accordingly…  Here’s how I did:

• Sew a lap desk for B.  Done!  Look for a post later in September about it!
• Sew a back-of-seat organizer for our car.  After discussing this with Husband, we ended up using a divided basket that we already owned to organize activities for our long car trip to and from our vacation.  It worked really well (aside from the fact that the basket itself was old and started disintegrating by the end of the return trip…), and I hope to find a replacement basket or box to fit the cloth divided insert.  Even though I love making things, it was nice to have a pre-made solution on hand already!
• Sew treasure-collecting bags for the kids.  This is a vague idea and might get ditched!  Yes, it definitely got ditched.
• Put together travel activity books for the kids. Done!  They were the fattest ever 😉  I enjoyed spending some time online finding beach-related activity and coloring sheets to include.  My daughter especially loved hers– and loved that she got a fresh one for the return trip.  I was so gratified to see my kids really enjoying the coloring pages and stickers.
• Do some scrapbooking.  Any scrapbooking!   I spent a lot of time with my photos, though, which does lead to scrapbooking in the future!  And hopefully “the future” means September.  However, I did squeak out time to make an actual 12″x12″ layout on August 30 (post coming later in September), so I guess I did manage to get some scrapbooking done in August! Yay!
• Exercise at least 3 times per week and continue my daily arms/abs/legs toning exercises.   When we were at home, I kept up with this pretty well, and even when we were on a week-long family vacation, I managed to get out and run twice!
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.  I am very thankful for the structure of my prayer journal, and for the challenge to make “artful devotions” this summer.  I have a post upcoming to show some of the illustrations I made in my Bible throughout the past few months.

Bonus projects for August:
I made more cards to send to family and friends, and I did some quick sewing for myself, too!  I will have posts upcoming on the blog this month.

Lots of things are starting up — new things and things I’ve done before, so I’m really trying to rein myself back in terms of goals.  Here’s what I’d like to accomplish:

• Get started on PhD ornament orders.  Like you probably saw, my shop is officially open for the holiday 2016 season!  Edited to add:  In the first two days my shop was open, I received orders for SIX ornaments!  They are my craft-time priority this month, so I’m preparing myself to not accomplish some of my other crafty goals…
• Finish a purple jersey knit shift dress that I started (and almost finished!) in August.  I hope that I can get my serger to cooperate and allow me to finish the cover-stitching that’s left.
• Tidy up my craft room.  Ideally I hoped to do this once quarterly, or at least twice per year, but that hasn’t quite happened.  By tidy-up, I don’t just mean put my most recent project(s)’s remnants away.  I mean a really deep tidying session– one in which I corral all of my unfinished projects and decide what needs to happen with them.  A session in which the many random piles that are semi-organized get properly filed.
• SCRAPBOOKING!  Seriously.  I want to scrapbook for real this month.  Get photos onto pretty paper with stories.  Maybe make a photo book.  But I really want to make at least one traditional layout (hope hope hope hopefully more than one).
• Exercise three times per week, along with my arms/abs/legs toning exercises.  I am starting a year-long adult ballet class once per week!  I am very intimidated, but so excited.  I had a taste of class this summer, and it was so hard, but so great.
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.  I am excited to start a new year with Bible Study Fellowship.  We’re studying John!

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August 2016 goals and July recap

I definitely bit off more than I could chew in July… Somehow I forgot about all of the other stuff we had going on!  Craft time was at a minimum.  Here’s a recap of my goals, and my assessment:

• Finish my dress.  I’d like to have a couple new dresses for a trip.  I would love for more than one of them to be sewn by me, but I’m not ruling out just buying one or two  I finished my dress!  I will publish a post about it soon! (I also bought one for my trip…and some fabric to make a couple more summery garments.)
• Make at least 1 traditional scrapbook layout for my albums.  NOPE.  BUT, I did help V make a layout for her own scrapbook, so maybe that counts??
  
• Make a travel notebook.  Yes! (post coming soon)
• Work on finishing B’s 365 album.  The album is “finished” in the sense that almost all of the daily cards and photos are in place.  What is left are all the extra inserts for momentous occasions and events.  I’m going to set a goal to have at least three of those inserts planned, at the minimum.  NOPE.  
• Make at least one photo book.  Yes! (post coming soon)
• Exercise at least 3 times per week and continue my daily arms/abs/legs toning exercises.  Yes.  
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.  Yes.  

I did get to finish up a few “bonus projects” during July:

• some zipper pouches
• VBS headbands
• cards for friends and family (HERE and HERE, for example)

 

So what about August?  Oh, I have grand plans again, of course.  I have some sewing projects in my brain, and as always, I want to scrapbook!  Here are my top project goals:

• Sew a lap desk for B.
• Sew a back-of-seat organizer for our car
• Sew treasure-collecting bags for the kids.  This is a vague idea and might get ditched!
• Put together travel activity books for the kids.
• Do some scrapbooking.  Any scrapbooking!  (options: regular 12×12 pages for my albums or Disney project, special inserts for B’s album, photo book(s), etc.)
• Exercise at least 3 times per week and continue my daily arms/abs/legs toning exercises.
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.

August is a busy month!  Summer is wrapping up and we have adventures planned, so we’ll see what actually gets finished!

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July 2016 goals and June recap

Here’s how I did in June!

• Finish my quilt.  Done!  There will be a blog post in the future, as soon as I take some photos!
• Sew a summer bag for myself.  Done!  And I love it!!
• Start planning some summer garment sewing.  I definitely have some patterns picked out to try.  I purchased fabric for a dress, and I’ve started cutting it out.  See my July goals for more.
• Make that darn Disney mini-album for B!  Yes!!  I did!!  It’s amazing; I have no idea why it took me so long to make it.  It is so simple in the end, and I also realized that I had all the pictures I needed already printed.  The paper was a real sticking point for me, but once I finally forced myself to pick paper and just start, I managed to complete it in a pretty short amount of time.   I’m excited to share it here on the blog.
• Start working on finishing B’s 365 album.  This did not happen.
• Make at least one traditional layout for my own scrapbook albums.  Sadly, this also did not happen.  I have some layouts taking shape in my head, though… 😉
• Photos. Captioned, edited, shared with family and friends.  I would like to have May’s  done by June 7 at the latest.  I did completely finish May by my deadline, and I’m partway through June– including a big, fun day at Hersheypark (which was a LOT of photos).  You can bet that I’ll be furiously working on the rest of June’s photos this weekend!
• Exercise at least 3 times per week. Also complete an arms/legs/abs toning exercise set every day.  Done.  I did miss a few abs/arms/legs days, but no more than once per week on average.  I also began an adult ballet class that I love (but is extremely challenging).  I’m taking it with a dear friend, and it is so fun!  The last time we took ballet together was probably in first grade…and the last time I was in a ballet class was over 10 years ago!
• And last but absolutely not least: prioritize Bible study and prayer.  I have been studying the names and attributes of God, and have been enjoying meditating on the Scriptures that describe those attributes by creating more “artful devotions.”

July!  Isn’t it amazing that we’re already halfway through the year!  I have a lot of projects in mind, and I have to admit, I’m having a hard time prioritizing them (not that my monthly goal lists are in any kind of priority order).  My problem is that I know I can’t do them all (especially in July), and so I’m having trouble choosing which ones I should focus upon.

• Finish my dress.  I’d like to have a couple new dresses for a trip I’m taking this summer.  I would love for more than one of them to be sewn by me, but I’m not ruling out just buying one or two 😉
• Make at least 1 traditional scrapbook layout for my albums.
• Make a travel notebook.
• Work on finishing B’s 365 album.  The album is “finished” in the sense that almost all of the daily cards and photos are in place.  What is left are all the extra inserts for momentous occasions and events.  I’m going to set a goal to have at least three of those inserts planned, at the minimum.
• Make at least one photo book.  I have about three photo books that are on my want-to-make list; I’d love to finish (and print) at least one of them.
• Exercise at least 3 times per week and continue my daily arms/abs/legs toning exercises.
• Prioritize Bible study and prayer.

Can I do it all (or more)?  We shall see!! 😉

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June 2016 goals and May recap

In May, I hoped to

• make and finish a simple Disney scrapbook for B.  This did not happen.   Instead, I majorly prioritized the December Daily (see below).  I did buy some paper (in April, I realize that I was actually pretty unhappy with the paper I had originally planned to use from my stash).
• make & send cards.  Done. Wow, I know a lot of people with May birthdays –plus, I sent a few other (non-birthday) cards.
• work on the December Daily 2015 album. This album is FINISHED, baby!!!  I absolutely underestimated the amount of work that it would be. My craft table looked like my scrapbook supplies exploded (really, the whole room was awful all month, since I was desperate for any flat surface because of the mess on my main craft island!).  But it was worth it, because I LOVE the final result.  I’ll be sharing it here on the blog throughout June (Christmas in June, anyone?).
• catch up and keep up with my photos and videos.   I got through April, and I’ve started on May.  I think my goal should be just to finish the previous month before the current month ends 😉  Really, I’d like to be more on top of things than that, so I’m hoping to have May’s done before June 7.
• work out at least 3 times per week. Yes!  It was especially nice when the rains stopped and the warm sunshine became more consistent.  I LOVE running outside.
• make at least 1 scrapbook layout for my traditional scrapbook albums.  Yes!  I made two!  I loved every minute of making them and I am so proud of how they came out.  I can’t wait to make more.  See them HERE and HERE.
• prioritize Bible study and prayer.  I’ve started a summer-long art-journaling style devotions.  I am enjoying it quite a bit.
• make a lap quilt for myself (birthday gift!).  I bought the fabric. I pieced the top (the back is a solid piece of fabric).  I was almost finished top-stitching the top when I ran out of quite thread.  Wop wop.  I just need to get myself to the store to buy some white thread, and then I can finish!  However, that’s more of a chore than it sounds… I hope to finish in June.
• Bonus accomplishments!!
  • I planted a garden!
  • I made a very simple one-photo-per-page photo book of highlight shots from a family photo shoot last December.  It’s been on my to-do list since then, so it felt really good to check that one off!

In June, I am going to turn my focus back to sewing a bit more–but I still want to scrapbook. So many hobbies, never enough time.  Here are the things I am going to

• Finish my quilt
• Sew a summer bag for myself
• Start planning some summer garment sewing
• Make that darn Disney mini-album for B!
• Start working on finishing B’s 365 album (in my dreams, I would finish it by his 2nd birthday, which is this month. So I should probably just keep dreaming about finishing by that deadline!)
• Make at least one traditional layout for my own scrapbook albums.
• Photos. Captioned, edited, shared with family and friends.  I would like to have May’s  done by June 7 at the latest.
• Exercise at least 3 times per week. Also complete an arms/legs/abs toning exercise set every day.
• And last but absolutely not least: prioritize Bible study and prayer.

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May 2016 goals and April recap

Here is a recap of April’s goals:

• make and finish a simple Disney scrapbook for B : no progress.  I need to print a few more photos and I’m questioning my paper choice.  I got stalled :-p
• make more cards & send them : Done.  I’ll blog some of them soon.
• work on the December Daily 2015 album : I finished the first five days and I worked on a few more days’ worth, which I will blog later.  I wish I’d completed more, but it is what it is.
• a couple sewing projects : Done!  I’ll share them later, though, since they are gifts!  But it’s hard to wait to show them to you.  😉
• keep up with my photos and videos :  Fail.  I caught up March, at least, which was a big month, journaling-wise, and so it ended up being a bigger job than I’d anticipated.  I’m going to try to power through April before we get too far into May!
• work out at least 3 times per week.  do a 30-day thighs challenge (+arms/abs alternating days) : Done.  I ran a LOT this month– mostly with both kids in the stroller (what a workout!!) and a few times by myself.  I also filled in the gaps with rowing if it was chilly or rainy.  I am pretty happy with myself for following through on the thighs challenge– I only missed one day.  I’m not sure how big of a difference it made, though…
• continue shooting photos in aperture priority and get more confident :  I spent a day+night gloriously alone at a B&B, and I think I figured some stuff out while I was photographing some of the beautiful flowers on the property.
• make at least 2 scrapbook layouts for my traditional scrapbook albums : I made one.
• prioritize Bible study and prayer : yes.  Thank you, Lord.
• Bonus: I caught up on a lot of blog posts that I’ve been meaning to write!!

 

In May, I would really like to finish some of these projects that seem to be languishing on my goal list–specifically the mini-albums.  I hope that I can make more progress this month.

• make and finish a simple Disney scrapbook for B
• make & send cards
• work on the December Daily 2015 album
• catch up and keep up with my photos and videos
• work out at least 3 times per week
• make at least 1 scrapbook layout for my traditional scrapbook albums
• prioritize Bible study and prayer
• make a lap quilt for myself (birthday gift!)

and on the wishlist for May– projects that are on my mind but I can’t prioritize quite yet:

• make a new bag for myself (purse-sized)
• start the finishing process for B’s project 365 album
• make a photo book or two (a simple one to display shots from a family photo shoot; Day in the Life 2015)

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Goals: May 2014 recap

Here’s a recap of how I did in May (and if I do say so myself, I think I did pretty awesomely ;-))

• Lots of blog posts about April’s projects.  Well, if you’ve been following the blog, you know that I’ve been able to post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday–plus a few bonus posts!  In addition, with all the projects I worked on in May, I have posts scheduled well into June, as well!
• Set up our son’s nursery.  We dismantled the craft room and moved a lot of furniture (it was like a big dance in our upstairs!), and I sewed up a storm!  I made a crib skirt, Boppy cover, rocking chair pillow, and a taggie pillow; I appliqued stripes onto some curtains, and Husband completed an awesome mobile to hang over our boy’s bed.  Posts about all of these items will be coming in June (as well as posts about my daughter’s doll)!
• Prepare a photo-a-day album (Project 365) to start June 1.  My awesome friend J has recently decided to do a Project Life album, and so we got together to set up our albums together!  I was glad for the “accountability” of working with her, because it meant that I got all of the “regular” journaling cards organized pre-placed in the pockets for the year ahead, starting on June 1 (I want to capture a bit of “everyday life” in the album before our boy is born).  I’m planning a blog post about the process, since it’s going to be a bit different from my last two photo-a-day album projects.
• Photobook gift project. I made really good progress on this project.  I am still waiting for a few things from someone to be able to completely finish, but it is mostly done.  I created my own templates for the pages, and I am really happy with how it is looking.
• Plant the garden outside.  Yep!  We planted.… and replanted! (Thank you again, Husband, for all your hard work.)
• V’s December album.  I am so proud of how much I’ve accomplished on this project.  All 40 (FORTY!!!!) of the “main photo” layouts are finished (this includes the ones from the first couple days!), including journaling (though they still need numbers and possibly embellishments, though I’m waffling on the embellishments).  All of the pages are in order in a temporary binder while I work.  The baseball card protector pages are inserted, and I’ve made good progress adding the small photos, extra journaling, and memorabilia.  These pages are actually a harder step than I’d anticipated.  So the album is not finished, but it has come so far!!  Here’s to hoping I can finish before our new baby arrives!
• New recipes from ATK and SK.  We made chocolate peanut butter cookies and pasta alfredo (our 50th recipe from the ATK cookbook!!).
• Exercise 2-3 times per week.  I did pretty well with this until I injured my back.  Since some days ended with me barely able to move, I decided it was best to hold off “formal” exercise (including walks) to protect myself.
• Bonus accomplishments:
  • shirred sundress for my daughter.
  • I played with watercolors while my daughter was painting one day and got to try out a couple techniques (THIS one and THIS one) that I’ve seen recently, for use on future cards.
  • Husband and I made some stenciled onesies for our boy, to give as a gift, and we even made a gift for our little girl and her friend at the same time!  Of course, there will be a blog post of those onesies coming soon!

June is my baby’s due date!  I’m not going to set any “official” project goals for June, even though I do have a list of projects I would like to work on if I am able!  Here are my top three:

• Finish V’s album.
• Start– and keep up with!– the baby’s Project 365 album.
• Make a monogram for the baby’s room.

 

 

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Goals: May 2014 and April 2014 recap

In April, I set myself a pretty long list of goals.  Here’s how I did…

• Throw an awesome bridal shower for my sister-in-law-to-be.  The shower was a success! (at least, in my humble opinion!)  I’ve already posted about the invitation, and I have some more posts coming about the rest of the preparations we made.
• Make layouts for V’s December album.  Well, this one didn’t happen.  I had to let something go, because this month was more full than I’d originally thought.  But I did write a post about the awesome doilies I ordered for the album!
• Make doll-sized cloth diapers for my daughter’s doll.  Done.  I also made another dress! 🙂  I have posts about my daughter’s doll coming up soon.
• Plan crib skirt, curtains, and a few decorations for my son’s nursery.  I have made lots of little drawings, made measurements, and purchased the fabric for my son’s crib skirt.  I also have fabric and a zipper for a boppy cover, as well as a list of less-essential decorations I’d like to make.  It all will happen in May (at least, I hope!)
• New recipes from ATK and SK.  We made orange beef stir fry, beef satay, and pesto, all from the ATK cookbook (pesto post coming soon).
• Take care of the sprouts.  Wellllll… the Jelly Bean sprouts have died, I think 😦  Definite sprout fail!  But we do have plans to put in the garden this coming weekend!
• Exercise 2-3 times per week.  It was so wonderful to be able to get outside and enjoy the warmer weather this month.  MapMyRun is much more reliable in open air 😉 and I logged almost 9 miles walking this month.  We are exploring a new-to-us park near us, and it has some crazy hills!  For this pregnant mama, they are a big challenge (especially pushing a stroller), and I am definitely slowing down.  The weather is (hopefully) only getting nicer, so I look forward to enjoying more walks in May!
• Unexpected accomplishments:
  • new laptop = computer migration
  • made a couple of thank-you cards (you guessed it– post coming!)

It seems that the story of this month is that I worked on a lot of projects but didn’t post about them yet!  Post-a-palooza is coming soon!  Even though from looking at the list above, it would seem that this month wasn’t entirely a success, I am pleased with what I accomplished.

And, I haven’t learned my lesson to slow down!  I’m feeling like I’m in the home stretch before the baby comes, and I have a lot to do!  Here’s this month’s list of goals (yes, it is crazy.  I know, you don’t need to tell me.):

• Lots of blog posts about April’s projects (haha)
• Set up our son’s nursery.  This includes dismantling my current craft room, rearranging furniture, and several sewing projects (and maybe a few paper ones, too)
• Prepare a photo-a-day album (Project 365) to start June 1.  This will be my son’s “baby book,” like I did for V with the Project 366 album.  (I’ve already purchased the albums themselves, as well as the Project Life Jade Edition.  I still have some more details to work out this month, though).
• Photobook project (it’s a surprise, and a gift, so that’s all I’ll say here)
• Plant the garden outside.
• V’s December album.  At least put the layouts together– at best, finish it!!
• New recipes from ATK and SK.
• Exercise 2-3 times per week.

Here’s to the challenge!  Wish me luck!!!

 

 

 

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Goals: April 2014 and March 2014 recap

March was a crazy-busy month for our family!  But even in the midst of it all, I managed to do pretty well on my goals!

• sew a doll for my daughter, with one dress and one “undersuit.” Possibly even some little diapers for the doll, too.  The doll is finished, and so is the undersuit and dress, aside from the little closure snaps (don’t have them and need to buy some!).  I haven’t made the diapers yet, so that’s been moved to April’s goals.  Look for a blog post about the doll coming soon!
• start making plans for the bridal shower.  Not only did I put together a Pinterest board and decide on a color scheme with my mom, but I created a digital invitation and started making some of the decorations with my mom!  I made way more progress on this than I expected.  I’m planning to write the blog posts about this shower in April.
• decide on a sketch for the “highlight layout” pages of V’s December album and start working on those layouts, if possible.  I ended up creating 4 sketches for the 31+ layouts for the album (I realized one sketch would get boring!).  At a craft day at my church, I was brave and dove right in to chop up the patterned papers to start making the layouts.  I have the pieces for 16 layouts prepared!  I’ll be writing a blog post about this soon, too– hopefully!
• Exercise 2-3 times per week, at least.  My total “official” exercise time for March was essentially the same as in February (just under 5 hours).  Not as high as I’d like, but I’ll take it (especially considering I had a very sore knee for about a week).
• Take care of the sprouts.  They’re doing well!  Here’s the update I wrote this month.
• New recipes from ATK and SK: It was a tasty month 🙂 We made fried chicken, buttermilk cole slaw, brownie roll-out cookies, and chocolate-chip brioche pretzles (post coming).  Yum 😉
  
• Unexpected accomplishments:
  • finished some ombre cards
  • baby shower card
  • made another photobook!
  • (see above about bridal shower progress!)

April is upon us!  I don’t have many weeks left before the baby comes, and we’re going to be converting my craft room into our little boy’s nursery soon.  But I’ll be crafting like a crazy woman until I have to put my stuff away!  Here are my goals for this month:

• Throw an awesome bridal shower for my sister-in-law-to-be.
• Make layouts for V’s December album.
• Make doll-sized cloth diapers for my daughter’s doll.
• Plan crib skirt, curtains, and a few decorations for my son’s nursery.
• New recipes from ATK and SK, of course.
• Take care of the sprouts.  This will probably involve transplanting them to larger containers.
• Exercise 2-3 times per week.  I’m hoping it gets easier this month as the weather should be warming up!

Okay, wow, that list is getting long.  I’m going to stop there.  Wish me luck!

 

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