Writing my Year in Review post every year helps me to see what I’ve accomplished, think about what I’ve learnt, and decide what I’d like to do differently in the following year. This is my 16th Year in Review blog post – one for every year of my full-time self-employment. Back then, I couldn’t have […]

Writing my Year in Review post every year helps me to see what I’ve accomplished, think about what I’ve learnt, and decide what I’d like to do differently in the following year. 2023 has been a unique year for me. I usually start these reports with a summary of all the new crochet patterns, tutorials […]

Writing my Year in Review post every year helps me to see what I’ve accomplished, think about what I’ve learnt, and decide what I’d like to do differently in the following year. This year has been bookended by accomplishments: I started 2022 by receiving my Silver Award from YouTube for passing 100,000 subscribers, and ended […]

Writing my Year in Review post every year helps me to see what I’ve accomplished, think about what I’ve learnt, and decide what I’d like to do differently in the following year. Who’d have thought that this year would be, in many ways, harder than 2020?! This year, I’ve only published 7 new patterns all […]

Every year, I write a wrap-up to see how far I’ve come over the past year and set a direction for the year ahead. I don’t think anyone in the world can say that 2020 turned out the way they’d planned, and I’m no exception! I’ve been very fortunate to not have been directly impacted by COVID-19, other […]

My long-established ritual in the last weeks of each year is to pull back from the day-to-day and look back over the entire year so I can put together my Year in Review post. Writing these posts helps me to see what I’ve accomplished, think about what I’ve learnt, and decide what I’d like to […]

Today marks the first day of my second decade of full time self-employment! I’ve just read back over all my previous Year in Review posts and it’s been an epic journey so far. I sometimes forget how much time and heart I’ve put into PlanetJune to reach this point, but I’m pretty proud that here […]

2017 has been very far from the year I was expecting; when I started another year in South Africa, I didn’t dare to dream that I’d be back home in Canada by the end of the year. And yet, here I am – yay! ♥ An Unexpected Turn of Events Things seem to have a […]