New Year’s projects – Happy 2013

So, I’m busy regrouping for the new  year – my studio is now on it’s way to being tidy and I’m working on a new goals for next year! I easily made my goal for the Goodreads reading challenge – so I’m trying to figure out if I should up the stakes to 95 next year? Or try to stay steady (frankly 85 is a  ton of books!)

2012 Reading Challenge

2012 Reading Challenge
Mary-Frances has
completed her goal of reading 80 books in 2012!
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So here’s the progress on my Buddha piece – loving it so far!

buddha cross stitchI also got a new TV for my studio area – so over the next week will be organizing that – I have tons of sewing to do this year and I’m hoping to get some projects started that I blew off last year! 🙂  Watch for my word of the year posts coming up over the next day or so.

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