2021 scrappy goals or resolutions

In 2021 I’m hoping to:

keep current in my memory planner-looking forward to my new layout 🤞🏻That I like it.
Keep current with my PL ( 12x12 )
Finish my unfinished Montreal album


I’m continuing my plan to spend approx 1/2 hour/day set aside for going to my desk and playing mostly for my planner but not always. I’ve done that 1/2 of this year and I’m pretty consistent doing it 5-6 day a week.

And I’m continuing to set aside 6-10 hours 1 weekend / month for crafting. I schedule the time on my calendar so it gets set aside.

Hoping to move in January and hoping I'll have my own space then.

1.set up my craft space
2.finish 2020 album
3. finish scanning and organising mum's photos
4. make at least 1 photo book from mum's photos (they range from about 1890(her grandparents) to her death in 2012)
5.make cards for the nursing home at least quarterly (thinking Easter, Summer, Halloween/Fall, and Christmas)

Feb and March I'll be mostly away from home with work but as the year goes on I hope to do more card making - really need to build up my stash. Not sure about scrapping yet. I just finished scrapbooking some old travel photos but am not sure what to work on next. I might actually look into scanning some old pics and making a photo book for my brother instead - he's in the UK and I have pretty much all the old family photos and our Mum's scrapbooks. Might be fun to do something with those.

Dedicate at least 1 day per month to crafting. Write it in the calendar and let everyone know I’m unavailable!

Eliminate FOMO buying.

My main goal is to do more scrapping and less scrolling, making a dent in some of my great stash.

My son will be a senior next year, so I want to do a school memories album for him and better get a good chunk done this year. I’m thinking one volume for elementary and one for high school.

Start and complete my December Daily 2020 album and at least one past DD.

Make some progress in my Disney scrapping.

Make some progress in my PL albums.

I’d like to make more LOs in 2021 than in 2020. We’ll see.

Continue virtual scrapping with friends (hopefully at least monthly) until we can safely do it in person again!

Love these types of threads!

My goal in 2021 is to make better memories, and have better, more fun photos to scrap. 2020 was a heck of a rough year.

Of course, some of that will have to wait until it is safe to go to museums and day trips and such.


Scrappy-wise, i think I want to scraplift more. I want at least some of my layouts to look artistic. I've gotten into a routine of neat and clean layouts, with predictably placed embellishment clusters. 

I think it's also time to pull all the tools out, and see what I have and what I really use. I think i forget to use things because they're not in front of my face.

This may also be the year to make a cutting station. I used my ZipeMate for the first time in months the other day, and I was all like, "Ooh, that's right! I like perfect circles!"

 And of course, I want to dedicate more time to scrapping. Me time shouldn't always be the very last on the list of priorities. Oh good, toilet's scrubbed, laundy's done, baseboard's dusted, basement deep cleaned? Okay, now I can squeeze a page in, but only until a family member comes looking for me with their next calamity that needs my immediate attention. (Why is it that the second I sit to scrap, suddenly a toilet won't flush properly, a drain is slow, someone can't find an ingredient in the cabinet, the big whisk is missing, and have I seen their favorite hoodie?)

I want to focus on OLW this year.

I want to use my SBTM to document this year.

I want to finally set up a crafting space by the end of the year.

Also, this is technically cross stitching, but I want to do one of those daily temperature projects. I figure it will be good for my first full year in a new place.

For 2021, I hope to keep up with my PL album. I usually fall off around August & do random weeks the rest of the year. I also haven't even started my 2020 DD album, so that's on the list along with scrapping wedding photos from our December elopement. We hope to take a honeymoon later in 2021, so I'd like to do wedding and honeymoon pictures in one album.

My biggest goal though, is to get back into my morning routine of 30 minutes of creative time before work. I fell off that bandwagon with the pandemic and everything going on this year. I'm really hoping to get back to it in the new year.

I haven't really thought about goals or resolutions beyond my normal "use stuff". I'm considering doing a weekly version of PL again. I usually do it once ever four years because it takes me that long to get over the burnout, and I did it that way this year, but I think with all the global and pandemic stuff that's still happening, and with vaccines in Australia still being a few months away, I'm considering continuing my current album on.

And as always, I do want to focus on using more stuff. I need to continue reducing my stash of pocket cards, and would like to focus on both 12x12 paper and my blue/green embellishments which no longer fit into their storage containers.

I'm hoping now that my scrap space is a bit more organized and clean that I will actually print photos out to scrapbook. I'd also like to make a couple of cards a month, my stretch goal is to make one card a week.

Wow! So many goals already! If a little competition and encouragement will help get these goals accomplished, please sign up for a TEAM on the Challenges Board HERE

My goal is--as always--to scrap some pages, make some cards, and have fun doing it!

A few of mine:

- finish my 2019 Canada Trip book (when quarantine happened I was so sad my upcoming trip was cancelled that I couldn't bear to look at it...I really want to finish though before i forget stuff lol)
- work on a scrapbook/travelers journal about 2020. I haven't scrapbooked in YEARS and I think I'm going to like the smaller more casual format)
- actually send cards instead of just making them. 🤦🏻‍♀️
- begin my altered memory book (I was inspired by my mom's junk journaling to do something creative with all the papers and little things in my memory box so they're easier to look at)
- MAKE ART. Whatever form, just make things that make me happy.

I am not a goals type person unless I am in crunch mode. I find less enjoyment when I pressure myself to get it done. (This might also explain why I still have 200-2008 to complete.)

BUT... I like to find things that will motivate me and one of the things I am going to do is make a list alphabetically of all of the things I COULD put on my layouts. I'll make a pick five list and try to change up some of my embellishment clusters.

When I was teaching, I could put students' names in a digital name generator and pick students that way so it was fair. I wonder if I could just use one of those and put embellishment types in instead of names. I could also make a giant spinner and do it that way. Hmmmm.

YES!!! 950nancy
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Here's a spinner site--I'm using one with a couple of my kiddos at the start of their teletherapy sessions so they get a little movement in, and I also want to make some for my scrapbooking!  Great minds!