New Year's Wishes (not resolutions)

I have a hard time with New Year's resolutions - I never keep them. Last night I listed some things I'd like to do in 2011. Hopefully I'll do well with those. They are wishes, though, and something I'm going to try.

Today I thought of a few more things. One is something I've heard about the past few years and decided that this year I would try. It is Project 365 and once I figure out how to link things, I'll link it. Basically what it is is taking a picture every day of 2011 to see what the year has been like. I'm going to try it. I took several pictures today. Now to just keep it up. I'm going to try to post the pictures once a week to keep myself honest! :)

Another thing I've thought about the past several years was knitting a nativity set. I thought if I did a piece a month I could finish it by Christmas. I haven't done it yet, and I honestly don't think I'll do it this year. However, I would like to knit Jesus, Mary and Joseph. That gives me 4 months to knit each of them. That I think I can do.

I also just joined a group on Ravelry committing to knit an ornament each month. I can do one each month. This month I think I'm going to knit a snowflake. There's also a super cute advent calendar made of mittens that is a garland. I thought that would be so much fun for Ryan. He loves his advent calendar and it would be fun to find a cute treat for each mitten. I'll try to knit 2 mittens each month, but we'll see. What I love, though, is that I have summers off so anything I get behind on, I can catch up during the summer.

Right now I am behind on my knitting. I told my sister I would knit her a pair of flip top mittens, but I don't like the pattern I found. I'm going to have to keep searching. I also told my mom I would knit a pair of fingerless mitts for another sister. And, I started a hat for Ryan only to be sidetracked but holiday knitting. I'd really like to finish it. It started as a superman hat, but he saw a pattern for a batman hat and like it better. The only thing is, I don't think I have the right colors. I may just make it a plain old hat and work on the other later. We'll see.