...starting a blog!

Hello all and welcome to Dreaming of...

After many months of silently slinking around Blogworld and peering into the lives of so many wonderful bloggers and creative-types (really not as sinister as it sounds), I have decided to try and carve out a little corner of this world for myself.

I'm not altogether sure what is going to come of all of this yet, or indeed what type of Blog this will end up being, but here is a short list of things that I will be striving for:-

1. To reduce the amount of time I spend watching TV by at least 50% (this may require a small miracle).

2. To massively increase the amount of time I dedicate to making things, reading about making things and talking to other people about making things (this will also prove difficult, due to stinky 9 - 5 job which often turns into 9 - 7 job, but I am the master of my own destiny and, in the immortal words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, I will "make it so").

3. To use this slice of Blogosphere to bring some focus and discipline to my currently slapdash approach to crafting (oooh, sounds exciting doesn't it!?), with a view to this becoming much more a part of my day-to-day routine rather than something I dabble at on a weekend if I have time.

4. To meet as many other like-minded people as possible and to learn as much as I can from all of you!

5. To create a colourful and descriptive account of my day-to-day life, which may prove to be quite interesting and insightful for any mini Kats that may come along in the future.

6. To find more ways to display and utilise the gorgeous collection of buttons which Mr Kat's grandma left to him (so far, they've made their way into my Banner, the photo on my first post and one of them even sneaked its way onto this knitted green corsage which I made a few weeks ago)...

To summarise:- I love making things and I want to get better at it. In an Ultimate Mega Perfect Ideal World, I would love nothing more than to be able to do it for a living. However, sadly, this has not been possible up to now. I live in hope!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my first post - here's to many more to come!

Kat X