I love lists !!!

Wow it's been a month since I last blogged ,things got a little crazy in December and something had to give !!! Hope I am forgiven ??? Happy new year to you all and I hope you all had a good christmas I have managed to keep up with my blog reading and have enjoyed having little glimpses of everyone elses festive times.   I have decided I like making lists so here are my festive lists ;
                             
                                   Things I did over christmas which I now regret,
 
               1. Ate my weight in jelly tots ( oh how i love them )
               2. Ate my husbands weight in Pringles .
               3. Ate my 4 childrens combined weight in cheese .
               4. Abandoned the housework.
               5. Gave Santa permission to bring husband and stepson paintball guns.!!!!!!!
               6. Leaving forty freshly decorated gingerbread biscuits on table for dog to demolish

                                   Things I loved about my christmas
  
              1. Being in the house with my lovely family and NO agenda
              2. Watching christmas films ( the family stone - I love it )
              3 Frosty/snowy/sunny dog walks
              4. Candles and fairy lights

                                   My favourite pressies

              1. I had one of these
                           

     2.I had some,

 3.I had 4 of these;

   4. Lots of things from these people;

   I was a very lucky girl , not to mention some of the lovely swaps I received - thank you to the lovely kelly who sent me lots of beautiful christmassy things and had obviously noted my love of polka dots - I will endeavour to blog about these soon .

Creatively, following an extremely manic December it has been very quiet and I find myself suffering a slight crisis in confidence - trying new things but not liking them  and lacking the patience to keep trying , getting very frustrated with myself    and ending up trawling through ETSY torturing myself with how talented others are - does this sound a little weird???? I can't seem to get focussed or decide on what direction I want to take - I think I may need to spend some time with paper and pen just jotting ideas etc to try and regain enthusiasm and focus.     I know I love sewing and working with felt and I get ridiculously excited about buttons but I feel that I am a jack of trades  all but master of none - boo hoo . Any ideas or advice from you crafty lot would be highly appreciated .

My resolution this year was not to make promises to myself or others that I cant keep - with that in mind my aims for this year are to

1. Learn to use a sewing machine
2. Make something for my own children
3.Try and complete 3 jobs that need doing in the house every week .
4. Walk much faster when I take the dog out - I dawdle everywhere - its a skill !!!!!
5.Invite my lovely friends around more and bake them a cake .
6. To blog twice a week

Oh and just in case you are wondering I never did get this despite my blatant hinting so guess what - I bought it for myself - what a luxury !!!!!!