A Neglected Blog

Wow.. my poor neglected blog!

A quick update on my life:

Still crafting – have donated quite a few items to various places.. But still have a lot of yarn left!

My cats – They are still crazy and enjoying destroying my couch :(

Blogging – I have several blogs going.. Some are neglected and others are current.  But I guess when you run a blog like a business and try to make an income from it, it makes it a bit different.

Writing – Still doing writing work and attempting to finish an e-book.  It is definitely a long process!

Saving Money – I have gotten into couponing more in the last few months.  I have had a few people ask me if I am an extreme couponer.  The answer is, not even close but I am working on it!

I am going to try and post here more often.  Likely my posts will be about my crafting and my couponing.  But I likely will post some pictures and stories from my trips that I have taken and whatever hits my fancy at the moment. 

Looking Forward to 2011

Many people like to use this time to evaluate the past year, but 2010 was not the greatest year for me, so I prefer to look forward and talk about what I hope to accomplish this year.

Day job – This is one of those bad things, so I hope 2011 sees me in a happy place, seeing as a person spends many hours at their job.

Candles – My Gold Canyon business picked up as the year went on, and I hope to see it continue and grow.  No complaints here.

Online Work – I was hoping to hit 2k, and I made just over 2,100.  I hope to increase this to at least 3k this year and maybe even 4k.  I plan to expand where I have been working and what I have been doing.

Blogging – I plan to continue my Candle blog (http://www.thescentsationals.com/), I have started a new blog which I will post here when I am ready to start promoting it, and I will continue this blog.  I need to decide if my WAH blog is going to survive, as it has been greatly neglected.

Crafting – I want to get more adventurous and try new things.  I already have a few things in my queue on Ravelry that I want to try.  I am still in the craft guilt, in the knitting area, but have decided crochet is where I prefer to be.  I still want to tackle a knitted sock too.

Cats – Continue loving on them and harassing them.  As much as some days I want to adopt a new one, I know that is not a good decision for a variety of reasons.  I may look into doing some volunteer work with the cat shelters in town.

Travel – I am hoping to go on a holiday in 2012, so continue to plan for this and save the funds up to go.

Was I Productive?

My to do list had 2 things on it today:

Order a fruit tray
Cook a Turkey

Both of these got finished.  The turkey was cooked, pulled apart, and put away. 

I managed a little bit more too
Crochet headband - learnt a new stitch too
Much reading on Ravelry

While it still doesn't sound that productive, I am proud of myself.  It was my first time cooking a turkey and I learnt a new crochet stitch.

I also started on some research for a new blog that I am looking at creating.  It will be utilized more than this one, but I am also going to try to post here more too.