List of Goals for 2011

Here is a list of all the things I would like to achieve in 2011, apart from keeping on top of the household chores and looking after myself and my family by eating healthily etc etc.

Books on my reading list:

1. All's well that ends well - Shakespeare
2. Miss Garnet's Angel - Salley Vickers
3. The Invention of Hugo Cabaret - Selznick
4. The Tar Man and
5. The Time Quake - Linda Buckley-Archer
6. Little Women - L.M. Alcott  *
7. Northern Lights* and
8. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
9. The Children's Book -AS Byatt
10. Treasure Island* - R.L. Stevenson
11. Mortal Engines* - Philip Reeve
12. Inkspell and
13. Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
14. Apricots on the Nile - Colette Rossant
15. Voices in the Park* - A.Browne
16. Junk* - Melvin Burgess
17. The other side of truth *- Naidoo
18. Coram Boy* - Jamila Gavin
19. Swallows and Amazon* - Arthur Ransome (currently reading)
20. Roll of thunder hear my cry* - Taylor
21. Peter Pan* - J.M Barrie

* Books that belong to my next (and last) O.U course starting in October

My creative creations:

Quilts

1. My bedroom throw
2. My daughter's surprise birthday quilt (October)
3. A stripy quilt for camping in the summer
4. Place mats for the kitchen
5. My god-child's quilt for her bed

Crochet

1. A granny square throw for the lounge
2. A ripple blanket for camping in the summer
3. Brooches  - which if they turn out well can be Christmas presents for the mums and grand mums in the family

Pictures

1. A quartet of seasons.
2. Tree of dreams
3. Quotations
4. Scrapbook albums up to date

Family life (children)

1. Give the children happy, summery camping memories
2. Be more firm with chores and their general helping around the house
3. Focus on the positives rather than dwelling on the negatives
4. Encourage their interests and feed their imaginations

I am sure that there is a lot more that I want to achieve but this is what my heart desires at the moment. I want this year to be a quilting year as I have so many ideas that I feel I will burst  open if I don't actually do them this year. I am waiting (very impatiently) for my wadding and cotton to arrive so that I can get quilting my patchwork top that I have made for my bed. My sleep is interruped with quilting dreams and ideas which means that I have to plan and put the next project down in my notebook before it disappears to the deep -end of my mind.

My bookcase is full with books that I haven't read and my Kindle is slowly filling up with books too - so I really need to plough through them this year. It looks like 2011 will be the year of children's books which I think is just fantastic. I can't wait to share the best ones with my children.

I have my fingers crossed for a lovely summer, especially as this year I won't be studying through it and can concentrate solely on my family. We hope to go camping by the sea and hopefully we will be able to take some of the quilts and blankets that I am planning to make - fingers crossed!!

So my creative year looks like it's jam packed already and I am so looking forward to the creative journey of 2011. I hope to regulary up date the blog with my progress so that by this time next year I can reflect and maybe learn from the process.

Next time: Quilt top update