Thinking About Next Year

 During my time working on last minute Christmas lists, I have been also considering what I want to accomplish next year. I have a huge library of books and magazines - more than 40 years worth. Being multi-crafty, there's all kinds of different categories of crafts, some I want to try that have been put aside for that "someday" and some old standbys I want to immerse into more. I bagged up 12 skeins of yarn - one for each month, instead of joining a mystery yarn club. Each skein is fingering weight sock yarn and I have no clue what I had chosen. I closed my eyes, stuffed my hand in the tub of yarn, put it in a bag and sealed it, never seeing what I picked. I am looking really forward to find what This year holds for me in the sock department. I have a few patterns from Crazy Sock Lady, that will work with hand-dyed yarn. That will be nice to have some alternatives instead of making all vanilla socks. 

I have a bunch of classes I purchased for "someday" as well. Next year I am going to take some time working on those classes. Currently, all I do is look and say, "I want to make that - someday." LOL Well, someday is coming next year. There are techniques I want to learn and just relax and enjoy the process. I love video classes as they can be rewound again and again if need be - quite unlike the in-person classes I have taken in the past. Yes, someone is there to help, but I miss so much because I cannot see or because the teacher has an allotted time frame to be able to help all her students in. For me, video classes work better. 

I have a bunch of cross-stitch and a few plastic canvas kits I want to complete. There's also a couple of felt and embroidery kits to do as well. That doesn't count all the knitting and crochet ones I have. Then there are the cards and sewing kits... As you can see, I have SABLE a few times over. There's and up and a downside to that. The up side is I don't have to worry about how expensive everything has become since I don't need to buy anything except to replenish things like glue, tape, etc. The downside is that I'm not getting anything new, so I need to stay away from craft stores both brick and mortar and online. I need to get things finished and get rid of those that I never will, be it because I no longer like it or because I no longer celebrate that holiday. At my age, I really need to think about this stuff. Swedish Death Cleaning is becoming more necessary each day. I don't want to leave a ton of things for the kids to go through after I'm gone. They don't have the interest in crafts that I do and they have been quite good about expressing that.