The New Year has arrived.

And it has to be better than last year! I mean honestly what was up with last year, everything that could go wrong did, and everything that should have went right, stumbled and fell. Yes this year will be better, I promise this to myself.

Here it is, January 5^th and I and just now posing about the New Year, why you ask, because it has taken me that long to write, rewrite, and publish this post. Should I or shouldn’t I, do people really want to know? Well tough, you’re going to hear it anyway, so sorry in advance!

This year, like all years past I have a few personal resolutions. I promise myself to be more true to me. Just because my friends and family think one way does not mean I have to agree with them, sometimes I will others I won’t.

I want to be more artistic, both in my machine quilting and in my personal quilt making. I have always wanted to make an item worthy of trying to enter in to a national show, and this year I am going to do just that. You see last year I discovered that life is just too short, I may not be here to do all that stuff that I want to do before I up and go to wherever it is I’m going to be going when I die. So if I want to do this I need to get started. I always look at the quilts at the shows and think to myself “I can do that” but I never do. Am I afraid to it maybe? I hate failing, one would think as many times that I have I would be use to it, but I’m not. Even if my project is not accepted into a national show, I will have at least given it a try.

Blogging, I have got to get better at this! I swear I have all these things I want to do but never get them done. This year I have made myself a schedule of things to add or talk about on the blog, and I am sticking to it! I started the blog to show my machine quilting, but seriously I’m going to start talking about other things. Quilting is my life but I need a break from time to time!

I’m going to be up and out of bed BEFORE 10:00. If you know me personally you will know how hard this is going to be for me. When I started working for myself I let that “I work at home, I make my own schedule” go to my head. I haven’t been up before 10:00 on a daily basis in well, years. I have a new alarm clock; it’s nice and loud and doesn’t have a snooze button! In the past four day I have been up and out of bed before ten, two times. Hey it’s a start!

I have debated again and again about talking about this subject on the blog, but I need to say it, and now is a good of a time as any. My Business is my life, but after the past year I have to seriously consider a few things. I’m not happy. Haven’t been for some time, last year it really showed. I have had to force myself to go into my studio and work on customer quilts. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, but I feel like I’m stuck doing the same thing over and over, because that is what the customers want. You have no idea how much I hate to hear “just quilt it like you did the last quilt you did for me” or “quilt it just like Judy’s or Sally’s or like Letha’s” I just want to try something new from time to time. I tell myself it’s just all the personal family stuff that has been going on during the past year that has me in this slump. I keep telling myself I’ll feel better about this soon, everything will turn out great. But even I know, and have to admit, that I could have a major decision on my hands. I have given myself one year; if at this time next year, I’m still unhappy, I’m going to seriously consider closing the door on customer quilting. Ok, I’ve said it, and honestly, I’m already feeling a little tiny bit better.

Ok, that is for today. Next up are some photos of all the Christmas Gift Quilts that I quilted last month. I held off posting photos until the gift giving was over, just in case! I’ll blog again soon… I hope!