2012 Resolutions

Almost a year ago, I posted some resolutions for 2011.

• Find our *dream* home (something with good bones that needs to be brought into this century would be ideal)

Here it is: the home we loved from the moment we saw the open living/dining/kitchen space...

thought we lost to a higher bidder, and then actually purchased just a month later!

• Post 5 times a week to the blog! We all know that didn't happen...
• Learn to refinish furniture... 
• And then actually refinish our lovely mid-century modern furniture Or these two either
• Purge (and then donate or sell) things that we don't use or need Moving really helped with that
• Re-learn how to sew  I am moving this to 2012

There were also some summer resolutions...

• Paint the living room, dining room, entry, kitchen, and hallway  Dining room and entry repainted after we smooth-walled both spaces (see pic below for the hard to see proof). Living room and hallway to be painted this weekend (and possibly next week)

• Install living room curtains, hang map and other living room art To be done next week once painting is completed
• Take out header cabinet in the kitchen to open up the kitchen to dining room/living room You can read all about how we did that here

• Get rid of all the boxes in the house
• Do something about the hideous and awkward CD tower It still lives, but now in the guest bedroom
• Order and frame wedding pictures/create gallery wall in entry and or hallway
• Put up the house numbers that we already own Nope
• Find/make curtains for the master bedroom Working on it as we speak
• Find a fiddle leaf fig We are the proud owners of two

When you look at it all together, we really have accomplished more than I thought, but not as much as I had hoped. Speaking of which, here's my resolutions for 2012: 

• Have two healthy and happy babies!
• Finish the nursery by 33 weeks just in case the twins come early
• Make as much of the bedding and curtains for the nursery as I can on my new sewing machine (which will require re-learning how to sew)
• Learn to use my new DSLR
• New roof. It needs to be done, but I am not sure how we will swing this (time wise or financially) with two newborns
• Redo/organize the garage so Ryan can be happy (and have a man cave)
• Lose the baby weight

I think that will do it for me for 2012. If I just get the first item on my list checked off, that will be enough for me this year. 

What are you hoping to accomplish is 2012?

Happy New Year!