New Year's Bead Resolutions - 2015

So it was time to ask myself that question... "What *do* I want to achieve in 2015?"

 2014 in collages

I find these lists really useful throughout the year and it does help focus my mind when I start going too crazy, well in the sense that I might still go crazy, but it's crazy with a purpose!!

This year's list was actually harder than I thought when I sat down to write about it, so I left it and thought some more... you see the thing is, doing this in 2013 and 2014 has helped me so much, that I'm kinda where I want/need to be bead wise.  Well apart from a money tree and an unlimited supply of money to buy everything I love, but this is supposed to be a practical list that I'm resolved to work through and not a wish list.

So as all good bloggers do, I took inspiration from another blogger, Tracy over at Black Boots Long Legs who published hers with a wicked photo (go take a peek if you haven't already...) earlier this week.  Not her actual resolutions, but the idea of keeping it simple!

My New Year's Bead Resolutions 2015

• To book myself another Lampworking Lesson - I'm going to keep and simplify this one from 2014 and book myself a lampworking taster session.  It's been 18 months since my first (and only) session.  I'm not going to set myself any more than a "1 session resolution" as I want to see if I want to continue any further before committing myself.  Also I need to check out if my shoulder will physically let my right arm be in a position to hold the glass rod.

• To spend less in 2015 than I did in 2014 - I enjoyed the challenge last year of trying to reduce my outrageous spending on Jewellery, so that I could ultimately replace my ancient boilers with a modern set up.  This year I have a bus to keep on the road, and some other life type resolutions that will need some of my spare cash to achieve.  I'm not setting myself any particular strict way to achieve this, I'd still like to spend plenty!  At the moment it's just a "spend less" goal!

So that's it for now, there are only two.  I may add to these as the year progresses if there's something I want to achieve in particular, but a lot of it will be continuing to do what I've been doing throughout 2014, so more of the same!

Just because there are fewer will not make it any less challenging for me as the second one will be enough to keep me busy all by itself.

January, especially, is a very challenging time in this regard for bead enthusiasts, multiple new collections, in particular I *love* the Trollbeads Spring Collection, Elfbeads official launch at Bead Castle with a new Limited Edition event bead and of course, ever present are the sales!!

So far I've avoided the sales and just picked up 1 bead so far from my project wishlist - the type that you have to buy when you find it, no silly prices just at RRP.  Mind you that was on 1st January so we'll see how the rest of the month goes.

You only need to look as far back to my last post of 2014 to see what usually happens!

Do you set yourself any resolutions, bead or otherwise?  Feel free to share!