What happened to my normal life?
What happened to blogging?
Renovation renovation renovation - seemed to be the word of the year for 2011. To say that the renovation consumed me, would probably be an understatement. Real life was put on hold. Reading slowed, craftiness was almost at a standstill, exercise was totally inconsistent, some nights I think the kids only just got fed (well, that could be a slight exaggeration!).
2012 is the year of ME!
Time to get back into routine, back into consistent exercise, lose that blasted 5kgs I have talked about for years, and time to craft! With the internal renovation just about finished (the new section that is) and the smallest one of the family off to school, 2012 will be the year of recovery, re-igniting passions and getting back in the game!!!
As we have started to unpack the garage I have come across tubs and tubs and tubs of fabrics and amongst these many WIP's! The lovely AJ over here at AJ's Antics has kicked off a WIP 12 month challenge which you can read about here. Oh me, oh my!! So perfect for getting back onto the quilting bandwagon and ploughing through some of the WIP's that have been hanging around for years and years. In fact, January's WIP is to put together some hand stitched blocks that were my first ever foray into quilting! See below for more on that! Over the next couple of days I will photograph my WIP's and blog my list! I still have a couple of tubs to look through (hangs head with red face!)
To help me get back into the swing of things I have signed up to round 1 of Michelle Bridges 12wbt. A 12 week body transformation program. And I am going to kick butt. Pre-season starts in 9 days and I can not wait!
I will also start my 2012 book reading challenge up again. I am currently reading Tracey Wickham's autobiography and am really enjoying it. I have also joined a book club. An old high school friend who now lives in London has started it up, there are a few of us and we are spread all over the world - London, Sydney, Munich, Hong Kong, Wagga Wagga. Where else? I am sure there were other places as well. We are going to do it all by email. I am super excited as I have always wanted to join a book club but with Dave's travel and having to rely on sitters when he wasn't around I was always a little nervous about letting people down. This way I can actually do it. We have all ordered our book and will post more about that once we get into it!
I will also blog more frequently than I did last year. So please leave me a comment so I know I am not talking to myself!
For now I am off to keep on hand stitching my January WIP. I went to a quilting class way back in early 2006 when I wanted to learn to quilt. I just picked some pretty fabrics and then realised it was all to be done by hand! So I am going to hand stitch the 4 blocks together, sandwich and hand quilt, machine sew the binding on, stitch it down, pop the label on and then who knows what I will do with it. It matches nothing in my house and I am not sure if I even like it much. BUT as it was my first attempt those few years back I feel I should hang onto it. We will see!!
