2018 - The Year of Colour

This colour circle is based on my instagram photo's from 2017. How can someone who loves colour so much have so much brown? Let's ignore the fact that I seem to take a lot of photo's of my drinks which just happen to be brown on tables that are also brown. It still gave me quite the surprise but again I also think that's been due to the lack of yarn images too. This year I am determined that this circle of colour will look very different. I want it to show lots of bright colours and hopefully with my determination to be more creative this year this will happen. If you are interested to see what your circle of colour will look like head over to Year of Colour. Probably better that you do it through your phone since you need to connect your instagram. I have to say that I am liking the little pops of brights in there the more that I look at it.

This is also the year of WIP. I say this every year and on occasion I have been successful (last year not so much). Thanks to not managing this last year and thanks to starting several new projects and not finishing them I have got quite the challenge this year. I am setting myself what I think is reasonable goals. Each month I work on an old project in between the new. That way I am not just working on WIP and become bored and unmotivated. This month I am working on my For The Love of Yarn blanket club from last year. I don't think I will finish it this month but I do seem to be working through it at a fair pace. Here I had five months of boxes done and I am now almost finished month 8.

This is also the year that I want to try to de-stash and the new projects will help with this. Last year I signed myself up for quite a few mystery knit alongs. Only a few of them were started but I have all the yarn for them. As you know I also have been building up quite a collection of yarn from my monthly subscriptions which is grown exponentially thanks to my little crafting. This year I have some projects in mind which will help me de-stash. I have a few ways of tracking it too and I hope to share you some of my knitting/crochet bullet journal trackers with you. This also means I am on a yarn ban. I may even cut down some of my monthly subscriptions. Do any of you have any de-stash ideas?

This is also the year of self care. I am sure most of you have heard this bandied about over the last year. I personally think it's a good one, especially after last year. It's about learning to not feel guilty about finding time for yourself. I like it because it is individual to everyone. So this is my year of self care and I plan to post more on that later.

Lastly this is also the year of the cat. My sister and I got a at in December there. Her name is Molly and she lives with me with my sister caring for her while I'm at work. She is very cute, lots of fun and a big bit mischievous. Most people who know me know that I am not a cat person. I have never been a cat person but that has changed with Molly. This flat would be a very dull place without her. While I don't plan to bore you all with constant stories and photo's of her you should still expect her to pop up every now and then. If you are interested she has her own twitter account (she's very bright for a 5month old kitten) and you can follow her there @MollySime.