What is a “coon’s age”? How long do raccoons live? I’ll have to look that up — I want to know if it’s literally been a “coon’s age”, or just figuratively.
Notice how it’s been much too long since my last blog? Yeah, me, too.
Today, the first day of 2019 is a good day for me to get back to it. 2018 was a rough year for me and my family. Actually, it’s been rough since 2016. I’ve definitely had to edit my activities and priorities. Honestly, talking about tough times is hard for me, because it all feels overwhelming, and talking about one thing reminds me of all the other things, and I just don’t have the energy to talk it all out. So I just don’t say anything. Which is why it’s been so hard for me to make blog posts — I can fake it ’til I make it with short blurbs on Facebook and Instagram, but for blogs… well, you folks are harder to trick!
On a lighter note, the thing that has kept me motivated is Miss Winnie Designs. I have had so many more opportunities and successes than I dared to have hoped for. MWD is still very young, but I have a clear vision of where it’s going, and I’m thrilled even with the advances that I’ve already made. Regardless of anything else going on, I have people that love me, my kids are amazing, and I have the potential and good fortune to grow MWD and my only limit is how hard I work.
SO!
Maybe if I list some of my business resolutions and/or goals, I’ll be more accountable for them… maybe… or maybe I’ll just ride the momentum I have, and work hard to keep it going.
I’m not really the type of person to give myself specific goals, because life is unpredictable and if you don’t adapt as you go along, you’re setting yourself up for failure. And I get way too discouraged when I feel like I’ve disappointed.
One thing that I hope comes to pass this year (and the earlier, the better!) is my new sewing room! The majority of my basement is one long rec room — which I loved when we bought the house — but it’s just turned into a confusing mess. My boys have shared a room for most of their lives (their choice), so my sewing room has been the bedroom in the basement. Now they’re 11 and 14, and getting too old to share a room… and the smell is getting pretty potent in there. 🤢😬
So the plan is for our older boy to have my current sewing room, and we’ll put up a couple walls to make my sewing room. And since the walls will be from scratch, I get to do whatever I want! Creative freedom building a room specifically for creating is pretty exciting. One of the walls I want to be metal so I can put magnets all over it, and the other wall (and probably an existing wall or two) I want to be covered in chalkboard paint. I have post its, papers sticky-tacked, and sticky chalk boards all over my sewing room, and I feel like it would look more purposeful (and creative) if my walls were made specifically for the chaos.
I’d have to leave at least one wall “normal” so that I can paint it some bright, obnoxious colour that my husband would never let me put anywhere else in the house.
I’ve got lots planned for the coming year, and I’m excited to share these things with you as they come along!
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