4 Simple Goals.... for 2010

Reading Oh, My Darling's blogpost sent shivers down my spine...

Why?! The other night I wrote in my journal, that my thoughts are spinning with soo many creative projects, that I don't know where to start.... guess I just needed someone to give me a litl' push in the right direction and make me transform my creative ideas/impressions into goals.

Her inspiration comes from this blog, where you can also find the "rules" - if you want to learn more you should look at that blog belonging to a very creative Elsie Flannagan.

Here goes:

1. Knit more...or doing something with yarn

Recently startet knitting again and is now ready to taggle bigger knitting projects - already have some ideas puzzling and even bought the yarn for some of them...Time to get started.... Crocheting is also veeeery tempting.

2. Use the camera more 
...and not just for pics supporting my blogposts. I need to learn to take quirky pictures, not just the usual "tourist shots" or portraits... maybe even something color-theme-something

3. Start using the sewing machine
...that I got from parent almost 6 years ago. Only used sporadic when I got it, but various patterns are too tempting...need to give it a try.

4. Baking and other "kitchen stuff"
Just a small portion of berries and you can make your own jam etc... And the price of bread is once again about to get more expensive. Once you get going, you enjoy the results afterwards

Patchwork... My First Attempt...

I was going through some files on my computer yesterday as I had to find a pattern, which a friends asked if she could borrow.... Going through stuff like that is truly a trip down Memory Lane...

This is actually my very fist attempt with pachwork (sorry for the poor picture quality).

Who knows, why I bought the January/February 2006 issue of Quilter's Newletter Magazine where I found this pattern. Suddenly I realised that it could be the perfect birthday / first house present for one of my frieds, who I had been drinking pots of tea with while studying at the university. When we needed a time-out from the books, tea was always the solution.

Making the whole quilt was out of the question, and then I realised that she was decorating the kitchen in retro colors to - which the fabrics selected matched perfectly. I managed to complete them within a week - the size was ammended, so it would fit the frames, that I found at a local hoby shop.

They have a nice spot in her kitchen - and if you are drinking tea at her house, most likely it is going to be in her cosy kitchen. Her parents actually asked me to make another set for one of their friends' birthday - and since I new nothing about the recipient, the mom helped me select the fabrics to be used. See this is where I regret me not having taken a photo of that set as well.

I still do it - find creative ideas from pictures, articles, patterns.... you name it... But guess that is the "curse of a creative person": we always collect ideas and add them to our must-to-someday-when-I-have-the-time list :o)

Today I am actually picking one from the have-to-do-need-it list - hopefully I can post a picture of the result later this week.