Happy birthday, Darling! Today you are three and what what a ride we have had so far. I can’t begin to summarize the last three years and how much change we have seen together. My memories are a lush blend of colors and textures and beauty and fails. I have loved having you so much and have reached for you often when my memory has made me question myself. There have been monthly posts that did NOT go out timely and posts that I gushed on with great vigor about something I loved making or accomplishing. This blog truly is my virtual brain, and man is it colorful and chaotic.
I really see no changes that I want make to my format going forward. I love my monthly posts documenting what I made and the highlights of what happened during the month in daily life. I like to post detailed information about what I make, especially the modifications, challenges, or self-checks if I got lazy or took and unnecessary/ unfortunate shortcuts. This gives me notes when I make something again or lessons to build my skills from. Something that was missing from this year (for completely valid reasons) was more of my life status posts. I did/ am doing some very interesting financial planning to prepare for large projects and purchases this year. I will document these at a high level so that I can have the notes for what I did, for any future large purchase. I also think it would greatly benefit me to post at least one Health Check post per year. This will help me keep track of where I am help and me to see what, if anything, is progressing. I am also starting to do some VERY future planning, and will possibly post an outline about it if I feel like I have it worked out enough to share.
Overall my goals for you this year are:
- More random/ fun/ mental floss type posts
- More making of every kind= more posts about making
- More/ better pictures of the things that I make
- Stop sending out new letters when I publish my posts (I just realized I was doing this last time and it felt weird.)
Much love,
M
Mrs. Collins Makes Stuff 