Resolutions

 Happy New Year! 2020 was a strange year wasn’t it? Here’s hoping 2021 is a better place be for all of us.

2020 bought about some fairly big changes for me, I decided my newish job wasn’t the right fit for me and so I returned to a previous job and, I’m relieved to say, it was absolutely the right decision for me. I am at a different location than last time but the team I’m working with is a perfect fit for me, an extraordinary group of people and almost 12 months on I still look forward to going to work each day. Mind you I still really like the days when I don’t have to too :)

I have spent the last few weeks, as a lot of us do, thinking about New Years resolutions. I’ve made some in the past but only because I’ve kind of thought I’ve had to, they have never really meant anything to me and as a result I didn’t stick with them but this year it feels different. Finishing my PDC in late 2019 caused a few mental changes in me, hence the job change, and those changes have kept developing, so I feel really good about setting goals in 2021.

So my resolution this year (although it feel weird to call it that, I feel like it diminishes the gut feeling that  this is something I feel really strongly about so let’s just call it what it is, a goal) is to not purchase any new clothes. I will make some exclusions, uniforms for work and underwear because let’s face it, my sewing skills aren’t that good, but everything else I will need to purchase second hand or make myself. I purchased so very little last year due to the pandemic and not spending any time in shopping centres. I think the only thing I bought (besides the aforementioned uniforms) was a dress for a wedding that didn’t go ahead thanks to Covid so the plan doesn’t feel like too much of a stretch. I’m also hoping it’s an opportunity to improve my very rough dressmaking skills, although I need another hobby like a hole in the head!

Do you sew your own clothes? Or have you made a resolution for 2021?

xx