Domestic Resolutions

I have many resolutions this year but I thought it would be fitting to share my more domesticated goals for 2010.

First and foremost at the request of my amazingly health conscious husband I will try to bake without wheat and use other sources of flour like rice, spelt, kamut, rye etc... and I will also try to bake and cook without white refined sugar hopefully using recipes that will substitute it with apple sauce, stevia, prunes etc...

I want to design/make/sew fun new aprons for myself to use in the kitchen.

I want to decorate our bedroom properly. I have photographs that I would like to get printed large scale to go above our bed and would also like to change the colour of the walls to go with the theme (to be revealed at a later date)

Make home-made soap. I have developed a fetish for home-made natural soap and it has become quite expensive. This year I hope to find a good recipe for hand made soap and make enough of a batch to last half the year or more.

I would like to make a bird feeder out of clay, there are so many gorgeous birds in our back yard, I would love to start feeding them and what better way then to make my own bird-feeders.

Come spring I want to make garden boxes (using recycled wood from crates) for our veggie garden and also build a few for herbs near our deck. I also need to test the soil in the back as last years garden was not so great and I think our soil was too acidic due to the gigantic pine tree just next to the garden. I am determined to have a luscious garden FULL of tomatoes this year!

I would also like to start printing my photo's in either prints or book formats. I have been backing up 2 years of photos this weekend and after sifting through 16677 photographs, I realized that some of them really need to be shared and viewed. I also need to be less shutter happy! So many of them are just not great!

This seems like a big list, but one I think is attainable. I guess only 2011 will tell!