Crafty and goals

I feel like I shouldn't post again until I've had a chance to catch up on my blog reading/commenting/replying. But I can already feel myself slipping away from my April goals. It really does seem to help to write them down and post them. So...

How I did on my March goals:

• finish something for the Smalls SAL Done
• Tall Oaks: finish the foxes, left side border (word) Done
• Mos Eisley: finish this sucker Done!
• Joyful World SAL: stitch the border for March Got started, but didn't make it very far.
• Other: finish the Mill Hill kit I started last month (needs beads) Done

April goals:

• finish something for the Smalls SAL Done
• Tall Oaks: finish the top border
• Joyful World SAL: finish March, start the border for April
• Happy Halloween: stitch at least two boxes Done
• Other: finish-finish a couple of my winter/Christmas smalls from the end of last year

I've got a decent start on the Joyful World March, so I should get it done. Honestly, the border is the biggest hurdle for me. Keeping track of the long rows of stitches! Urgh. I just don't want to fall too far behind on this SAL. I could see myself giving up on it if I found myself more than a month behind.

And I've added Happy Halloween to my monthly goals. Maaaaaybe I can get it done by Halloween this way...

Non-stitch-ily: over the weekend a friend decided we should make rag wreaths. I was dubious. It seemed like a lot of time for a possibly silly-looking thing. But I loved the way they turned out. Mine, hung on my old farmhouse front door:

We got rolls of quilt strips from Joanns; I found a 50% off coupon online so we got the rolls for $6.50/each instead of $12.99/ea. The wreaths took 2 rolls a piece. Between cutting the strips down and tying them on, it only took about an hour and a half, maybe two hours per wreath, which was not bad at all! (Left plenty of time to go shopping after, yay!)