Twenty-Twelve Resolutions: a house log
Every year we publicly proclaim a few of our resolutions in the hope that it’ll light a fire under our arse (arses?) and assist us “get there.” So without further ado (except for this gratuitous and quite much in-progress pic of the cabinet doors being primed)…
… here they are:
Resolution #1 – To Get Around: We are excited for 2012 to be a good travel year for us, since we have been invited to speak at the Portland Home & Garden Show in February (truly? us?) and at the Haven Conference in Atlanta in June (we are the keynote speakers, which makes us excited and nauseous all at the same time). So we will hopefully get to meet a lot of you folks at those events. And when our book comes out this fall we hope to get to do some touring simply to thank as many of you for reading our journal right to your face as possible. You know and be awkward and blushy and say things like “that is so weet of sou” instead of “that is so sweet of you.” True story.
Resolution #2 – To Make Our Archives Easier To Navigate: With 2,000+ posts that have been written over 4+ years, we fully understand how hard it is to find things, especially all of the projects that get buried as we go! So we’d enjoy to revamp our Projects page with photos and easier to use archival systems. You know we like to Hands-on things, so that means learning some coding stuff as we go. Should be lively…
Resolution #3 -To Find More Balance: This guy’s a repeat because we have not conquered it since declaring it last year. We mentioned that “since the internet is 24/7, and we work from home, sometimes it is hard to resist working nights, weekends, and even on vacation, so we hope to get a handle on that.” Especially with Clara around, some healthy family-friendly balance seems like a good idea. Here is hoping 2012 is the year that we get it down!
Resolution #4 – To teach Clara how to prime & paint: Ok, perhaps that is not quite age appropriate, but at least let me teach the girl how to caulk. Kidding again. Hmm, perhaps we can show her how to peel painter’s tape? Seems like something she’d enjoy! This resolution is simply about keeping Clara involved and hopefully raising a little Hands-on lover like ourselves. I mean, we will not force it on her, but including her in some toddler-friendly projects or steps could be lively for the whole fam. The girl does enjoy her tape measure (more on that here), so we are off to a good start…
Resolution #5 – Simplify, simplify, simplify! Sometimes it seems like we should say yes to every opportunity (why not?) or try to tackle ten projects at a time (gung-ho!) but we have learned that keeping things plain and staying focused on one task at a time might simply be the key to sanity. So we have to fight that “little voice” that pushes us to do more/attempt to be especially-human/cater to everyone else. Simply sharing whatever’s going on in our little world is what got us here (over four million hits a month is both humbling and mind-blowing). So we have to fight the urge to keep piling more on our plate or attempting to please everyone on the planet. This is simply a good old fashioned Hands-on diary. And plain = a striking thing.
Who is ready for 2012? What are your resolutions? I’d enjoy to hear what you folks would like to accomplish this year (either in list form like ours or simply a sentence or two about whatever you plan to focus on). Do you have any personal resolutions going on? I’d enjoy to drink more water, eat more veggies, read more books, and get back into painting (on paper and canvas – since I have wall and cabinet painting covered already). Oh yeah and to Netflix Homeland since so many people have recommended it. Is that resolution-worthy? From what I hear, it is.
Psst- We are over on BabyCenter sharing a cute handmade-with-enjoy nursery that is gender neutral, modestly sized, and packed with Hands-on ideas! Check it all out here.
