New year , new beginnings..

Happy New Year... 
I am amazed how fast 2012 went.. The only thing I remember I wanted to get accomplished was to make new curtains for the kitchen.. nope. I just rehung the old ones back up haha.
My goal this year is to sew to sell. I have some ideas for a purse pattern too. Motivation is the key here.. I sit with my laptop and browse Pinterest and nothing else gets done but pinning.. ugh. I have tons of patterns I want to make.. I want to set a goal to sew at least two projects a month.... just for fun projects. I want to test out some patterns I would like to use to sell products too.  I made a sewing planner using my Pink A5 Domino Filofax to use to keep me on track.. ( will post about that soon!)  My friend Sasha told me about A lovely Year of Finishes whole year sew along from fiberofallsorts. You make a project once a month .. You can make anything you like.. as long as you finish it and link up on your check in date. It starts today and you have seven days to post about it... and you have a chance to win prizes!!! Would you like to join ? There is a button on the side or you can clicky the link above that I mentioned..  My second goal of the new year is going to be to post more. I plan on at least 2 a week.. good start huh?  Here are some items I made this last week.. More key fob's. 

I guess I do have ONE more goal to sit... I want to read the whole collection of Brother Grimm's Fairy Tales.. yep. not the Disney proof collection,, the real Grimm's collection.  This book is massive huge. So will be broke down weekly. Not aiming to read the whole book in a week.. I do like to read and use to read up to 2 books a week.. sometimes 3.. then sewing bite me and I'm lucky to finish one book in two weeks!   A good friend gave me a gift card at Book's A Million book store and I can't wait to go get my book to start.. I saw the fairy tale book before Christmas and told myself that will be mine soon. I don't buy new books often. I like to purchase used books at a used book store , swap on Paperbackswap or go to the library. So this is a treat for me.. I have also been collecting older hardback books of children's classics. I want to build a nice collection for Zoey. 
You won't see me post many photos of me here.. but I just had to post this one! 

We had a blizzard hit us last week.. we got 10 inches one day then a couple days later got hit with 4 more.. nice. (not)

We have 3 white ducks that stay on a small pond behind our house. The water froze up and they had no where to escape the predators of the wild (these ducks can't fly like most ducks, Mother Nature can be cruel sometimes), so Doug the hubby built a little house for them and we caught the duckies and they are safe and warm now.. hehe.

Where are my pens and keys???

Silly title.... lol

I wanted to show off what my Momma made me!!! I was talking about these pencil roll ups I been wanting to make myself and she told me to give her some fabric and she made it for me! I love it! She put a flap on the top...

 I gave her the main outer fabric and she used what she had for contrasting. She is a quilter so she has a eye for color matching.. =0)
See all my pens, markers, pencils and highlighters fit snug and warm!!!

 And then its all folded up! I had rolled it up but the pens made it very bulky and I liked it this way better.. I still have to attach the closure. Might not need one...

  I had a small custom order for some key fobs. I gave one for a friend and she ordered 5 ! lol
Here are the custom colors she wanted...

I'm about to finish my holiday sewing!!! YAY for me! This morning I finished a custom order for a night gown, one cd holder (that goes on a car visor, pics of those to come later!) , 5 key fobs. Last week I made at least 7 dozens cookies!!! They went as gifts, and ate! lol Going to bake some more this Saturday... wow... Have a great week! Are you finished with your shopping??? I have small gifts in my Etsy shop!! LOL