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Oh my, there are so many of my goals listed above, ya'll must secretly know me.
1. Clean and organize my stamp room better. It's not bad, but could be improved.
2. Build up my stash of cards again.
3. Yes, use what I have.
4. Finish collecting the SU colors (only have about 10 more to go) and then start using all of them, by challenging myself with the color wheel each month to use two colors I don't normally use with a stamp set that hasn't been used yet.
5. Start a paper crafting time at my house on a regular basis and open up my large stock of paper for everyone.
6. I made a memory calendar for my parents this year for Christmas and was really happy with how it turned out. So I want to make one for each of my children (have 3) for Christmas 2009. We have lots of pictures of our kids and especially our grandkids (9) so now I need to use them, and by making copies of them, I don't have to worry about ruining any pictures.
7. Bring my DH scrapbook up to date and start the scrapbook for our new home.
8. And of course, start Christmas cards in January so I'm not rushed with doing them at the end of the year
1. SCARPBOOK!!! I so NEED to work on my son's book.
2. Use my Circut more. I just got the bigger one for Christmas and I need to use it more then I did my small one.
3. Use my DP and embellies that I am hoarding.
4. Buy less.
1. Stop hoarding and start using
2. Make a card stash and use it
3. Christmas Card challenge 2009
4. Stamp to Spend 2009
5. Start and get up todate my kids albums (they are 15 and 16)
6. finish my parents 50th anniversary album
1. SCARPBOOK!!! I so NEED to work on my son's book.
2. Use my Circut more. I just got the bigger one for Christmas and I need to use it more then I did my small one.
3. Use my DP and embellies that I am hoarding.
4. Buy less.
I gotta use mine more too!! I have 30 something carts :rolleyes:
Alright, here are my goals for 2009. I may tweak them before the 1st.
* Plan 1 giveaway per month (I have plenty of supplies to share)
* Become an every day blogger (I am close, I just have to plan better)
* Make an 8.5X11 album
* Make a dent in to be scrapped pile
* Try 1 new technique per month
* Finish projects already started
* Stick to scrap budget (first, I need a budget )
* Use more eyelets/brads (I have 11 bead organizers full!!)
* Finish no paper challenge
* Make 5-10 Christmas cards every month (I will be doing the challenges at Christmas Cards All Year Round blog http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.com/ )
* Average 4LO's per week
* Use each of my Cricut carts 5X or more each
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My goals this year would be to
1-use what I have--like ribbons, paper, dp and stamps
2-try not to buy things until I use things up
3-replenish my card stash
4-organize and clean up my stamping space
5-find more time to stamp and have "me" time
6-send more cards
7-do more with the wish rak
8-play in more of the daily challenges
My goal is to establish a card stash.... I have tried this before and have failed! I just want to be able to grab an appropriate card when I need one and not have to resort to purchasing one instead. (especially "get well" and "sympathy" ones.
I actually used to have this and it was great but between giving them for gifts, using them, selling some, and no time in the last year with my new school plan to stamp......they're almost gone. :( I so need more! This is one of my goals.
The next would be to schedule stamp time, like on a calendar and stick to it, regardless of DBF needs!!!
Wow, I am so impressed and inspired by what I'm reading from everyone this morning. I'll try to list out a few things I'd like to achieve in 2009:
Clean and organize my craft room- especially the ribbon which has gravitated to the entire second story of my home.
Complete a SU cs sample ring. Three are started, 0 got finished.
When I create a card, make 2 of them. I am getting good enough that these turn out so now I can have the confidence to create 2, one to go out and one for my stash.
Begin to scrapbook again. I am so in love with card making and the instant gratification you get from that I have not touched a book in 2 years. I know my DD would love to help me work on these.
Get a birthday card out to my entire family (they live far away from me) this year. Check out this list: 2 parents, 9 siblings + spouses, 23 nieces/nephews. On my in-law side- MIL, 3 SIL's, FIL + spouse, 1 brand new nephew.
Have a stash of Sympathy, Get Well, New Baby cards. I usually am good on birthdays.
Get involved with at least 2 philanthropies this year who could benefit in some way from receiving my cards. I have one ID'd already for a January event and I'd like to provide cards for a local oncologist office where a friend works as a nurse.
As you can see, I am trying to channel my hobby/obsession so that the world benefits in some small way. If I could find a way to burn more calories as I sit on my b_ T _ and make these cards life would truly be golden. I gotta lose 25 for a June wedding! Enough said. Let's make it a great year in our little crafting community.
See, I'd like to get involved in these swaps, cards for RAK that I hear about on here too......my job gets in the way....but I'm thankful to have one. Better back that statement up these days. Without it I couldn't stamp and or hoard my stuff.
Ohhh........if there's a way to burn calories stamping, I wanna know. I don't have time to stamp let alone the gym lately. If I could burn the calories while stamping then I'd free up more time AND money from the gym!!
I am totally struggling with finding my New Year's groove. I've usually got more plans and new beginnings than I can shake a stick at so this will be good to get my juices flowing. I don't think I can plan for the whole year but I'd like to think about first quarter anyway. Let's see:
1. Continue developing organization of craft space. I have figured out pieces that are working well but 3 trouble spots I'd like to resolve this quarter:
Stamp sets: I have too many for the space I'm trying to cram them in and they wind up getting all piled up as I try to dig through them. They also need addt'l labeling.
All the stuff behind my desk that never got resolved after I moved in last spring.
Projects that are 'in process'. Need some sort of containers or something to put them in.
2. I also desperately need a stash of cards. Each month I will make up 5 cards. January will be sympathy, February will be get well and March will be thank you.
3. Finish the matching game projects I started for Christmas but failed to finish.
4. Plan a stamping evening with friends at least 1x per month Jan-March.
5. Use at least 1 set per month that I've never used.
6. Complete one color challenge per month (probably on stash cards above). Try to combine with sketch challenges.
Other stuff to consider for the year but not first quarter:
Do a VSN
Christmas crafting done before Halloween OR ELSE!!!! LOL
Other stash categories: thinking of you, wedding, baby, congratulations
Working on some of the alterable items I have stashed
Trying new techniques
Glossy stock...learn how to do it!
I hope to start on next year's Christmas projects now. I'm going to make ornaments, cards and tags. I would also like to make several card sets to give as gifts.
I agree with everthing written but I'll write my list down to see if it makes a lasting impression for me to follow-through!
1. card stash
2. scrapbook more (2 pages in 2008 is NOT good)
3. finally set up a gallery in SCS
1. Make at least 1 scrapbook page per month
2. Use existing supplies to make my monthly cards for Single Moms & Friends
3. Attend 3 craft fairs to sell wares
so many great ideas on this thread. my goals for 2009:
make 6 christmas cards each month january-october. then i'll be ready to mail out cards in early december.
make a card stash so i have cards on hand and not have to be creative at the last minute.
use each unused stamp set at least once.
participate in more swaps. did my first one ever this year, which was a snowman image swap. waiting for my return images which begins on january 15, 2009. so excited to see what will show up on my doorstep.
best wishes to everyone here at SCS for a happy and healthy 2009!
1. Collage more
2. Organize the GIANT hoard by category
3. Find a reasonable method for storing all the unmounteds/clear
4. Collage more
5. Limit spending on classes/supplies to $150/mo, really.
6. Haul out an enormous load for the LSS yard sale in May
6. Collage more
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I'm glad the topic is "goals", since I have a few of them...
1. Take a monthly family photo of all 4 of us. I have tons of the kids, lots of hubby with kids and alone, and some of the cats but since I am always behind the camera I am rarely in our family pictures. We are a family of 4, not 3! I'd like lots of family pages for next year.
2. Use my stash, especially my patterened paper. I have so much that I "had" to have, now I need to actually use it!
3. Organize! We are putting the kids in their own rooms so I am losing my craft room. I'll be consolidating to a cabinet and desk in the living room. How will I find something large enough?!
4. Aim for 10 pages a month and 5-10 cards. Mommy time and work take a lot of the day so we'll see...I think it might become a monthly "feast or famine" routine, some months I might get more done than others.
5. Buy a new digital camera - just a personal want...I'd like to upgrade to a SLR camera, but not critical by any means...I want an updated bathroom more! But a good camera = good pictures = good pages.
6. Journal daily. Again, this is a "me" goal...I used to journal a lot, but I'm very out of the habit now. Even just a few sentences of how the day went, cute things the kids said or did, sketches for cards/pages.
__________________ Melanie "Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry."
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Starting out you usually spend alot more, so many things you need . I started this year so I spent alot this year. But I only own about 20 SU stamps and about 50 unmounted. I already stopped buying. My goal also is to use every stamp I own 2 to 3 times, for me that will be easy. And I have set a budget of not more then 50 dollars a month.
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Starting out you usually spend alot more, so many things you need . I started this year so I spent alot this year. But I only own about 20 SU stamps and about 50 unmounted. I already stopped buying. My goal also is to use every stamp I own 2 to 3 times, for me that will be easy. And I have set a budget of not more then 50 dollars a month.
I like your budget! I have to come up with one too :(
My goals...well, until reading what many have written I hadn't thought about it....
Put at least 8 rows a week on the afghan I started for my son a couple of months ago. It'll take 2 years to before it's finished.
As a SU demo - plan projects ahead for the coming month
Put supplies away as I finish projects so I don't have a huge mess to deal with.
Use supplies I have regularly - punches, ribbon, brads, buttons, etc.
Scrapbook - hopefully finish my son's scrapbook I started several years ago
finish the scrapbook of photos of where I live - tourist places and local events - that I started this summer
- get more family photos scanned into computer or copied otherwise so I can have them printed for scrapbooks
Have fun making different kinds of books and other 3-D objects
Pull items from our recycling stash to use instead of taking to the recycle center
Enjoy spending time with others who enjoy scrapbooking and rubber stamping!
....8. Work up a daily crafting schedule. Pare down my home and out with the junk so that housework and chasing after four kids takes the minimum necessary effort, so that I can focus on what I love to do best, stamping and crafting and photography and scrapbooking and writing! This has been such an area of frustration for me but I know I have to be the one to streamline things, especially in the house. After all, if this is my passion, it only makes sense to weed out the superfluous, whether it is too many dishes or Christmas decorations, etc....
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DITTO!
That is my ultimate goal. With less to dust, clean, vacuum, etc.. means more time for things I enjoy- Family, Friends, and Crafting!
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Great thread! Thanks for starting it ...
1. Clean, organize and keep my craft area reasonably clean all year.
2. Scrap and stamp for my personal satisfaction regularly.
3. Get together w/ my girlfriends once a month to craft and hang out.
4. Quit impluse buying!!!
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Great thread! Thanks for starting it ...
1. Clean, organize and keep my craft area reasonably clean all year.
2. Scrap and stamp for my personal satisfaction regularly.
3. Get together w/ my girlfriends once a month to craft and hang out. 4. Quit impluse buying!!!
hmmm I am jealous of all you who say you have too much stash. I don't have enough. I know I am lucky to have what I have, but I never have the right stamp or paper. I have about 4 stamps that I actually use. I always bought the cheap $2 or $4 stamps, that are terrible. I just could never pay $15 for a stamp.
I am learning to buy the better value, more expensive stuff ;)
Anyway my goals are....
- Stop buying the cheap things that I will never use, save up for the better things.
- Make more cards.
- Stop spending most of my time on the computer looking at cards and supplies and actually make some things.
- Buy some SU! stuff.
- Decorate my bedroom with handmade things.
- Send more cards (however it costs be $2 to send one card overseas)
- Take better care of my stamps, I am always the one who leaves out the stamp without cleaning it or putting it back on its acetate. I am getting better though.
- Think of more goals. lol
Stop spending most of my time on the computer looking at cards and supplies and actually make some things.
LOL! I do this a lot, too!
My goal is to make an index of my stamp sets, just by stamping in black ink each set on a separate page and putting them in a binder. That way when I am looking for a flower or sentiment I don't have to try to remember where it is or pull out each set to find what I am looking for. It won't be hard, just tedious.
My goal is to make an index of my stamp sets, just by stamping in black ink each set on a separate page and putting them in a binder. That way when I am looking for a flower or sentiment I don't have to try to remember where it is or pull out each set to find what I am looking for. It won't be hard, just tedious.
Great idea! I have thought of this too, but it would take forever!! Good luck with your index project.
1. Catch up on all the journaling I've been avoiding in my scrapbooks.
2. Allow things to be used whenever for whatever. For Christmas I broke down and let my three year old use some of my paint I'd been hording to put handprints on a shirt for daddy. He loved it. I realized the joy of him using it was way more precious than saving it for something special.
3. Use stuff up before buying more - paper, embellishments, ribbon, etc. I'm very into not hording stuff anymore.
What kind of paint did you use for the handprints on a shirt??
I can think..this would make a Great gift
1. Oranize and Declutterize. I haven't organized my stamping/scrapping stuff since I moved into my apartment in April. I have a table, but there is so much stuff on it, I do not know where the top of the table is.
2. Finish Scrapbooking my Italy pictures.
3. Build up a stash of cards.
4. Start making my Christmas cards in January, so that i actually send them out this year.
5. Send out birthday cards this year. I have a habit of forgetting of sending out birthday cards. One of my mom's friends sends out all of her birthday cards on her birthday, that way everyone gets a birthday card and she doesn't forget anyone.
My goals are to:
not to be just a hobby SU Demonstrator
put a dent in my designer paper (this could take years)
use all of my stamp sets and finally open the recipe one and make a gift for my mother with all of my grandmothers recipes in it
keep my stamping room clean
make atleast 5 christmas cards a month
get pregnant!
I also hope to totally re-organize my stamp area, to start fresh with some new projects. Also:
* Plan my projects and make them ahead of time, instead of making a card 30 minutes before it has to go in the mail.
* Host a "craft show" get-together for my friends who are repeat-customers, and for whom I know their tastes, instead of wasting bucks on craft shows where people are not buying.
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Here are my goals for 2009
1. Make at least 6 Christmas card per month
2. Make some jewellery each month
3. Work on my Jewellery making blog
4. Try and use my stamps alot more
5. Try to be more creative with my greeting cards and other things
6. Post my Christmas cards late November - early December
7. Organise my cardmaking supplies into container with labels
8. Make my own gift tags
9. Do some christmas crafts ie. bon bons, beaded napkin rings, etc.
10.Decorate noodle boxes ready for christmas to put wrapped lollies, etc in them
11.Try and update my 4 blogs regularly
1. Keep the craft room "project ready"
2. Send out more thinking of you, keeping in touch, and encouragement cards
3. Learn some new techniques and folds
4. Make a list of gift projects I want to make and work on them throughout the year
5. Create 1 or 2 SB layouts a week
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For the past year or so, I have kept myself from buying any crafting stuff except adhesive. About three years ago my DH had our dining room redone by California Closets so I could have my own crafting room!
Well, I went crazy and bought everything under the sun! Now that I am older (almost 51) there is no way I can possible use all of the stuff up if I keep buying new stuff!
I have been really good about this goal and even try to buy all my adhesive on sale or with coupons.
This xmas I broke down and had my DH buy me the scallop/circle nesties and I also purchase a few scallop punches. I LOVE them!
I am totally struggling with finding my New Year's groove. I've usually got more plans and new beginnings than I can shake a stick at so this will be good to get my juices flowing. I don't think I can plan for the whole year but I'd like to think about first quarter anyway. Let's see:
1. Continue developing organization of craft space. I have figured out pieces that are working well but 3 trouble spots I'd like to resolve this quarter:
Stamp sets: I have too many for the space I'm trying to cram them in and they wind up getting all piled up as I try to dig through them. They also need addt'l labeling.
All the stuff behind my desk that never got resolved after I moved in last spring.
Projects that are 'in process'. Need some sort of containers or something to put them in.
2. I also desperately need a stash of cards. Each month I will make up 5 cards. January will be sympathy, February will be get well and March will be thank you.
3. Finish the matching game projects I started for Christmas but failed to finish.
4. Plan a stamping evening with friends at least 1x per month Jan-March.
5. Use at least 1 set per month that I've never used.
6. Complete one color challenge per month (probably on stash cards above). Try to combine with sketch challenges.
Update: I stamped last weekend and managed to:
1. Create 4 sympathy cards for my stash and I really like them. I also made a birthday card and both were sketch challenges.
2. Use a set, a really old set, I'd never used. Shooting Stars from SU! Always loved the set but never got it mounted.
3. Scheduled a stamping evening for January.
4. I tried to buy a label maker for the stamp project but they didn't have one where I was shopping.
Yeah! Off to a good start. Anyone else want to give an update?
My 2009 goal.....
