Hello world,

Well here I am, just about to start 2012 and I’m back again with the same old crafty resolutions as I have had before – but this time I mean business!!!

For those of you who are not following my chat on MSE I shall let you in on my little secret:-

My name’s Emma and I’m a craft-a-holic (which also means I’m a crafty spend-a-holic – which also means I have mountains of stash piled from floor to ceiling in my craft room!!!) There I’ve admitted it again but does this stop me buying tonnes of new items because I like to stroke the paper, or play with the embellishments – NO!!!!

But 2012 is going to be different (she says sounding like she means every word of it!!) In 2011 I dutifully tidied up my craft room and it looked amazing – my hubby built me some new storage shelves, we spent money painting it, putting a lovely new laminate floor down, got furniture which fitted the space more and I invested a fortune in storage boxes for my embellishments, papers etc. I new exactly what I had (and belive me I found some absolute treasures I had totally forgotton about!) and also cleared space by selling quite a few bits on Ebay and at car boots which I no longer wanted (or which I had duplicates of such as three sets of the same nestability die – see I did tell you I was a craft-a-holic!!) which also gave me a bit of extra cash to buy – you’ve guessed it – more crafting goodies!!! Needless to say the room is looking just like it did when I first starting tidying at the start of 2011!! Whoops!!!!!!

BUT NO MORE – 2012 is going to see a new me – I’ve set myself the targets of:-

1. Not spending any more money on crafting items (excluding essentials such as tape, foam pads, cards etc but I can only buy if I have absolutely no more left whatsoever!!). Because I know exactly what I’m like I have given myself £100 to spend on craft for the whole year – yikes what have I done!!!

2. I’m going to try and sell my items in as many places as I can – I am going to do as many craft fairs as I can, set up an Etsy shop, Ebay some of my handmade creations, approach shops and other outlets about selling on a sale or return etc.

3. I’m gonna try and lose a stone in weight. My weight has steadly been creeping up and having just eaten all my christmas stash of chocolate (and belive me there was an awful lot!) I think nows the time!!

4. I am going to aim to give almost all handmade presents for crimbo in 2012. Last year I managed to make a total of 39 gifts for people (but I did opnly start six weeks before the big day!) so this year I aim to top that figure by at least 1!!

5. Suppose I’d also better tidy up the craft room – again and this time try and keep it in a reasonably tidy state!!!!

I’m hoping to use this blog as a way of showing my crafting progress and sharing my creations. Who knows I might even enter a few crafty challenges along the way so my creations should start popping up all over the place – Craft World domination here I come!!!

No craft spending – what on earth have I done!!!!!!!

Well enough of my ramblings for now - I'm off to enter a challenge I have just found online plus maybe peruse the sale sections of certain crafty websites while I still can - what it's not 2012 yet so I can buy some stash today can't I?