New Year’s Resolution 2012

Make something every day. That’s my resolution for 2012. Make. Something. Every. Day. It can be a meal, a purse, a picture, a poem. As long as I’ve engaged my mind and used my creativity to create something consciously, it counts.

I feel better when I’m making things, working out problems, turning ideas over in my mind. I get to do that a lot at the end of the year, in November and December, when I’m getting ready for the holidays. Then January comes and I end up in a slump that seems to go along with the short and dreary days. I get lazy. This year I don’t want to let that happen, so I hope that having this resolution – to make something every day – and having this blog – where I document my creation every day – will be the motivation I need.

I don’t have too many ground rules or parameters for this project. Mainly its that the thing I make for the day must be a conscious, deliberate creation. Cooking up an ambitious dinner or inventing a new recipe counts; the usual spaghetti and meatballs doesn’t. A carefully composed photograph counts; a quick snap of the kiddos being cute doesn’t. And no, hon, doing laundry definitely doesn’t count! Also, I’ve decided that stages of a project can count for a day’s creation if its a long one – there’s no way I can sew a quilt in a day, but I can piece one, then quilt, then bind for the finished creation and three days of creativity.

So here’s Day 1: This blog. And here’s hoping that on December 31, 2012 I’ll be able to look back at 366 days of creation!