How Did I Get On With My 2017 New Years Resolutions?





So, i've been pretty lax on the blog lately, so i'm going to start off 2018 with the recap on last years New Years Resolution/Goal/Plans list.

I set myself a list of 50 things I wanted to do in 2017, and, sadly, I didn't quite manage to complete them, I dare say thats down to the fact we went on seven holidays despite saying we were going to go on less and focus on the house!


1. Visit Berlin
2. Visit Rome
3. Visit Disneyland Paris
4. Visit Walt Disney World
5. Make a chocolate photo frame
6. Save money
7. Declutter
8. Post a YouTube Video every week
9. Bake a heart shaped cake
10. Go to Chinese New Year events
11. Sunnycon
12. Newcastle Film & Comic Con
13. Visit Whitby
14. Have a BBQ
15. Go to Mog on the Tyne
16. Visit the aquarium
17. Get my DSLR repaired
18. Use the graphic tablet more
19. See Blink 182
20. Go to NERG/other Cons
21. Take more photos
22. Build a snowman (fingers crossed!)
23. Go to the beach
24. Watch fireworks
25. Book holidays for 2018
26. Holiday planning!
27. Get back into stock photography
28. Buy less junk
29. Go to Durham Lumiere
30. Organise our memories
31. Scrapbook the year
32. Go to Sunderland Illuminations
33. Fenwick Christmas Window
34. Keep on top of the blog!
35. Bake more!
36. Eat less sweets!
37. Visit Icecream Parlours
38. Beamish
39.  Upload more to Redbubble
40. Make the most of our slush machine in summer!
41. Make a potato clock
43. Visit the Quayside
44. Tynemouth Market
45. Make a sandcastle
46. Get a new iMac
47. DIY Candy Kits
48. Go on more days out
49. Make 2017 the best year ever
50. Don't forget about this list


So as you can see, there were 13 goals I didn't manage to achieve,


7. Declutter

We did make a start on this, and we filled our green bin two or three times over with the amount of stuff we got rid of.
We're finally getting our loft all boarded out this month so once thats done we can get serious about decluttering again and go through every box before we transfer it from the backroom to the loft.


13. Visit Whitby

We never made it to Whitby, all our money and spare time in the summer was spent preparing for holidays or actually on holiday.


15. Go To Mog on the Tyne

We never managed to set up plans with friends due to work commitments!


18. Use the graphic tablet more

I ended up lending it to my brother for a while then never had any motivation or inspiration to use it again after that.


22. Build a snowman

Not enough snow.


27. Get back into stock photography

Didn't have the time to think up some stock standard photo ideas.


30. Organise our memories / 31. Scrapbook the year

I did say a while back in a previous blog post this one probably wouldn't happen. 😅


34. Keep on top of the blog!

It was going pretty well up until the holiday clump, we took three holidays in the space of six or seven weeks and I never got back into the swing of blogging after we got back.


38. Beamish

We never managed to set up plans with friends due to work commitments!


39. Upload more to Redbubble

Didn't have the time to think up some stock/sale standard photo ideas.


40. Make the most of our slush machine in summer!

We didn't really have a lot of spare time in the summer, we were hardly ever in the house so never got a chance to set the machine up this year!


45. Make a sandcastle

We did spend some time at the beach last summer, what with living a 15min or so walk away from the sea front but we never spent long enough there to build a castle, the tide was in pretty much every time we visited too!




I'll hopefully be back with another blog post soon!
Probably on my goals for 2018.. once I finally figure out what those are.



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