A new year! How exciting! Do you make New Years Resolutions? How soon before you break them, LOL? Isn't it funny that a new year... or a new month... or a new week... can make us feel like we're starting a new page? How often do you say "I'll start exercising on Monday"? Or is it just me, ROFLOL. Can't start today... have to wait for a new week / month / year...

So maybe this year's resolution is to stop procrastinating. I'm terrible, really! I have to set arbitrary deadlines for myself, or I don't get anything done. What I'm working on always seems like so much more fun than what I SHOULD be workiing on...

As many of you probably know by now, I'm really getting into writing.

I used to do a lot of writing before I started my company, but running your own biz is a LOT more time consuming than you would think. After all, you're the designer, photographer, printer, assembler, shipper, file clerk, bookkeeper, and supply manager. And that's w/o any shows, which is a whole other skill set to add on top of all those jobs...

Which brings me back to telling you I'm cutitng back a bit this year. I'm hoping to encourage ALL my creative sides, not just my designing... but don't worry, the designing is getting done too - I've started a new release that I'm stitching myself, with an adorable bunny (I'll sneak peek that one next month, when it's almost stitched)...

I've started charting the last of James Keirstead's works I have licensed, a couple boats in harbor... Here's what I have done so far... as you can see, a ways to go yet, but this will give you something to compare the finished design to, lol:

What else? I'm working on a new novel, and hope to have the 2nd draft done for the next newsletter... so I guess I better get to work! Happy New Year everyone!!