Getting ready for the end of days….

It’s not as macabre as it sounds, I promise!

I always have this thing about not really getting into “spring cleaning” but there is something about the end of the year that gets me a bit excited about the possibilities of the new year.

Even this year. The second year of the damn pandemic.

I wallowed in my own misery for a bunch of December and now I feel like turning my mind to the future.

I ended up with a cross-stitching journal and planner (from The Black Needle Society‘s November “resolution” box) and a Reconciliation day planner (from Colouring It Forward) and I love my little notebook so I am going into the year planning on using all three!

Here are some of the pages from the stitching journal:

I will use this to keep track of the details for my stitching projects! I have only a couple of things that are truly WIPs to finish off; I have a few more things that need “finishing” (framing, or being made into a pillow or something!). I’d like to get one of the things in the “finishing” pile done a month. Otherwise my plan for January:

– start a full coverage piece

– start, and keep up with, the temp tracker from Climbing Goat Designs

– start a small piece

– start a kit

The Reconciliation day planner is also pretty nifty – the daily pages are undated so if you miss a day, or just have a “rest day”, then there is no wasted pages!

It begins with messages from Elder John Sinclair, Diana Frost and a bit about the artist Ashley Barclay. It also lists all the “statutory holidays” as well as other important Indigenous dates such as:

– February 10 – Moose Hide Day

– April 28 – International Dance Day

– June 8 – World Oceans Day

– September 30 – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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The suggestions are great as well. Others include attending a cultural event, consider stereotypes, follow up with political representatives about the Calls to Action etc.

And there are Q&A pages:

Others are on women and ceremony, land acknowledgements, why men wear braids, Indigenous education etc.

And finally my own little planner. This has whatever the hell I end up putting in it. Like birthdays, and habit tracking, and notes from reading or listening to podcasts. That sort of thing. Like one of my habit trackers from last year:

So there we have it. My starting to plan for 2022! Yippie. What type of planning do you do? Do you set goals – short, medium, long? easy, medium, hard? For different things (i.e. reading, movies, moving?)