Happy New Year, Crafty Friends!

Happy 2014 to Crafty and Non-Crafty Mommas alike!
I hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday season.  I personally would still like to be in bed, with the kids shipped off to school and the hubby at work...but it's a new day in the new year and as my work Executives like to say, 'Let's look ahead.'
I have found that I do not have any concrete resolutions this year.  Instead, I have some goals.

One of my goals for the new year is to make homemade soup dumplings...like the kind that you would find at Joe's Shanghai in NYC's Chinatown.  It's one of the things I miss most about living in the NY Tri-state area. I was roaming around on Pinterest for some recipes but mostly found pictures upon pictures that only made me salivate.  I did manage to find a recipe that didn't look too horribly difficult so I pinned it and will give it a go some time in 2014.

A second goal is to recreate this mantle scarf I found in one of the multitude of holiday catalogs that graced our mailbox.  It's so pretty but all fireplace mantels cannot be created equal.  So I worry about extra length, proportions, etc. And it doesn't look horribly difficult to make.  So I'll be embarking on this adventure with one of my fellow Crafty Mommas - watch out...the sewing machines will have to be broken out!

Finally, now that my boys are starting to read, it's probably time that we get them a library card. Not only can they discover the wonders of our local library, but they can learn the responsibilities (and penalties) of borrowing and returning books.  I found this cute library bag on Pinterest and can see that this will require the uses of my newly acquired CAMEO Silhouette!

Of course there will be many other crafty, and not so crafty, endeavors in the new year.  For example, I am filled with anticipation of what my younger twin will surprise me with as his Halloween costume wish.  He asked to be a hot air balloon for 2013 and not only did it turn out really well (if I do say so myself), I found that I liked being challenged into making such an 'uncommon' costume request.  (I'll have a post about how I made it, soon!)

So what crafty projects will you be doing in the new year?
Whatever your plans are, here's to hoping they are CRAF-TASTIC!
Happy 2014!