Happy New Year

I am such a bad blogger.

I have excuses like I have had an extremely bad cold for about 3 months which resulted in the flu, then a chest infection, x-rays and too much time off work. I'm over it now except for my cough which I can live with. This however is rubbish I could of still blogged but I just didn't have anything to say.

This year will be different and since I did so well (um) at my resolutions last year it is time to commit to new resolutions this year. I have read that the reason we fail so often at resolutions is because we set our selves big steps rather than little steps. So what I am going to do is make 5 promises of things I am not going to do in the next year.

1 I am not going to put myself down.

2 I am not going to carry on being stuck in a rut.

3 I am not going to give up on the idea of starting my own business.

4 I am not going to over eat this year.

5 I am not going to let the year run away from me.

I am going to keep these resolutions with me at all times but if I cannot follow them all the time it's not the end of world.

I have also been thinking about growing my own vegetables this year so I am going to read up on vegetable growing and have just ordered this book from amazon, The Allotment Handbook Caroline Foley it tells you when and what you should be doing. I'm not quite ready for an allotment yet but I've marked out two beds in my garden ready for what ever it is I'm going to grow.

I have also been knitting I'm going through a bobble stage at the moment. Which I find the easiest way to do this is by knitting and purling into the same stitch 6 times then pass all but the last stitch back off the needle.

I've knitted hats for me, friends and family but now I'm moving on to clothing. Below is going to be a big puffy sleeve for my new cardigan. I've knitted the body on my knitting machine but I'm hand knitting the sleeves and trims in a lacy, bobbly, cabled pattern I've designed myself. Fingers crossed I'll get it finished in time for next winter...