New Year, new ambitions...

I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas break and you are all raring to go with fresh ideas for 2012. I'm not even attempting to think of new year's resolutions this year as I am guranteed to fail but I do have goals and ambitions for the next 12 months. Fate has decided to put a spanner in the works (I won't bore you with personal details) but sometimes life throws you obstacles that just makes you more determined to make the things you have worked hard for and believe in work better for you.

So, goals for 2012: UK Handmade is storming right now, we are all bowled over by the amount of followers and support we have at the moment and the one thing I always dreamed we would do would get the magazine in to print. This is the year we go for it.

The other goal is to get my own business back off the ground; finding that life / work balance is always difficult when there are kids in tow but I am in a place where I feel like this can really happen at long last. Last year I disappeared until a pile of stress and networking and confusion but I am facing 2012 clear and focussed. I know what I want and I am damn well going to get it *stomps foot*.

The book in the pictures is something my poor mum waited 6 months for me to make, I am a bad daughter and she is very forgiving. But it brought home to be that if I don't have time to do these things for the people that matter then something is very wrong. 2012 is going to be about being in control of my life and not letting life control me. Plus I miss making my books and I want to do more. I want to get into the garden once in a while and bake with the kids (something I never do!). 

What are your goals for 2012, what can you do to get your life / work in order?