New Year Resolutions

 I don't take New Year Resolutions too seriously, but do have some goals this year.

Continue learning Spanish - DuoLingo

Make healthy food choices.

Use MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories and nutrition.

Exercise daily - Fabulous 50s  videos is a great place to start and also walking in the neighborhood.

Plan monthly family dinners with children and grandchildren (these may have to be outside until Covid-19 is under control).

Make 1,000 newborn hats for local hospitals (I made 880 in 2020)

Finish reading through the bible - The Bible Recap

Continue handing out Random of Acts of Kindness items - I gave out hundreds of crochet angels last year and small crochet mice to children (I always give these to the parent so they can decide if they want to give them to their children).

Learn to sing The Prayer in Italian

Learning to Draw

One of the things on my list of things to learn is pencil drawing. I haven't been able to find any affordable local classes, but did find many You Tube instructional videos.

Lee Hammond's book  People and Portraits gives a good overview of types of colored pencils and what to expect from them. For instance, Prismacolor provides a heavy application of color whereas Col Erase will achieve lighter colors but can be erased. Watercolor pencils have varied uses. You can color with them, color and then use water and brush to blend/smooth the colors or wet a brush and swipe it across the pencil tip to "paint."

What are your goals for 2014?

New Year Resolutions

If one of your resolutions for 2014 is to be happy, take a look at The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Ms. Rubin says "I wasn't as happy as I could be and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar."

Each chapter tackles a different problem and would be a good book to follow throughout the year.