Year 2015 ....what I am upto ?

2014 saw few changes in me. The highlights being - I started cooking more, I formally started designing my crochet patterns.

Come new year, and I have all the excuses to say that resolutions are meant for breaking and therefore I don't make any. I thought I was wise and smart. But I have observed that if I list out some task, I complete quite a few. If I don't, I miss most of them. After seeing my blogger friends updating their resolution/goals/missions, I decided to formally list down mine as well. So, here is quite a big list, some of which, I already started working on.

S.no.	Goal/resolution	Type	Status
1	Design min. 1 cross stitch and 1crochet pattern for Indian magazine	One-time	Started
2	Analyse atleast 2 international magazines for submission	Ongoing
3	Write one article/story per month for Newspaper/magazine and submit	Ongoing
4	Upload the written novel	One-time
5	Complete next novel	One-time
6	Create Goodreads profile and update frequently	Ongoing
7	Read 2books a month	Ongoing	Started
8	Donate more	Ongoing
9	Think less, worry less	Ongoing
10	Organize more	Ongoing	Started
11	Recycle more	Ongoing
12	Increase exercise and walk time	Ongoing
13	Make crochet wearables for Anshita	One-time
14	Put some efforts in gardening	Ongoing
15	Play thrice a week with Anshita	Ongoing	Started
16	Learn and make more sewing and patchwork items	Ongoing
17	Get used to paying bills	Ongoing
18	Learn and cook few more baking items	Ongoing
19	Find out more about palaeontology carreer	Ongoing
20	Learn amigurumi	Ongoing
21	Learn Tunisian crochet	Ongoing
22	Do mending and repair work promptly	Ongoing
23	Reduce xx Kgs (too shy to reveal the count :))	One-time	Started
24	Smile often, be more social	Ongoing	Started
25	Reply to comments promplty	Ongoing	Started
26	Write at least 2 blogposts per week	Ongoing	Started
27	Target at least one pending home-decor/fitting each month	Ongoing
28	Learn about finances/investments from Raj - one item per month	Ongoing
29	Learn Adobe illustrator to draw crochet patterns	One-time	Started
30	Delete unwanted images from iPad,phone and laptop.	Ongoing

On 25th and 26th Dec, after 6 years, we had been to 'Ramoji Film city' in the outskirts of city. It is world's largest film studio complex spread in 1666 acres. It was fun. I still need to shortlist the photos as they are spread across two phones and a camera.

We also did shopping but what attracted me outside the flower nursery was this mini compact seed packet - 39 varieties and a slip of paper with information just for 150 INR (2 USD). I had been spending a lot on buying seed packets online which is just waste of money on packaging. I have to separate them in little pouches and Anshita did the labelling task for me :)

What I cooked last week- 3 special items but took picture of only two.

Matar Kachori : These are balls stuffed with coarsely ground greenpeas and some spices .

Gajar ka Halwa : A sweet made of Carrot, milk, sugar and few more items.

I am working on two crochet projects, one large and one doily. I hope I can share one of these by next week. My link party 'Messy-to-Classy' is open to join any time. Just check the top menu bar for more information.

Have a nice day!
Preeti :)