A new year...

...a new beginning. We hope that this year will be a bit kinder to us, we've been through so much the past year.
I have long stopped making new year resolutions coz I find I can never keep them anyway. Loose weight? Yep, did that, it lasts for about a week and then it's out the window. Organize my craft stuff better? Yep, done that, I start, make an even bigger mess and put it all back as it was. At least that way I can still find my stuff. LOL
So what now? No more resolutions? Then how can it be a new beginning?
A week or so ago I came across this blog post and somehow it got stuck in my head. I decided to try it, and my word for this year is "release". There, now I've publicly shared it and I can keep you updated on how it's going. I want let go of some things I no longer need. It's tearing my heart out to let go of some old magazines as I'm a true magazine junkie. But, I've torn out what I want to keep, will file that, and the magazines will go to a friend for inspiration for her. Sort of get the maximum use out of them, so it's not like *I* am throwing them away really... LOL
I'm just building up the courage to actually let go of them, we'll be going there tonight, and I'll take them. It's a start. :-))

Hugs,
Wezz

To all my friends

Online or offline, to all my friends all over the world, I wish you the very best for 2010!! I haven't been able to make many Christmas or even winter cards since my fall, and the few I did manage to make I've already shown here. But I do have another one, to go with my wish for you all.

May 2010 turn out to be a great, happy and healthy year with lots of love and laughter for you all! For those who craft, like me, may your Muse never leave your side this year! :-))

I got a really nice New Year's wish from someone, but it was in dutch, so I'll try to translate it here for you all...

May Peace break into your home and may thieves steal all your debts,

May your pockets become a magnet for $100 bills,

May love stick to your face like a cream and may your lips be attacked by laughter,

May luck slap you in the face and may all tears shed be only from happiness

In other words, have the best and most creative New Year!!

Happy New Year to you all, my dear friends!! :-))

Hugs,

Wezz

Hello 2009!

The new year is well on its merry way, it's already 1 week old! Time just flies by, doesn't it?
Did you make any New Year's resulotions? I gotta admit, I used to do that every year, and every year come February, there was nothing left of my resolutions. I had given up. So, the last few years, I haven't made New Year's resolutions. Instead, I try to do as my grandmother used to tell me. "What you do at the beginning of the New Year, you will be doing for the rest of the year."
Well I certainly hope that's true! At the stroke of midnight, I wished my significant other a Happy New Year and cuddled and kissed him. Yeah yeah, I know, mushy and romantic, but hey, that's me! We spent New Year's Eve with friends so I wished them a Happy New Year too, and I sent some text messages with my cell phone to those who were celebrating somewhere else. We talked til late that evening. New Year's Day we went to see the family on both sides, had a good meal, drank champagne and cheered the New Year on. I beaded. Yup yup, I did! I touched my stamps, some cardstock and some ink pads. I didn't actually stamp, but thumbed through a stamping magazine with the intention to do some stamping/cardmaking soon. I flicked through a beading magazine so I will have plenty of inspiration throughout the year. I also spent some time online to send my well wishes to my cyberfriends on the various groups I belong to. I added a new Ruffles necklace to my etsy store. I've also added some earrings to the ESmarts Team Shop. My new tumbler is still tumbling, with stones in one barrel, and jewelry to clean in the other barrel. I've already taken a beading class last Saturday too! It's snowy and cold, for the first time in years we finally have a real winter here again. Let's hope the freezing temperature will keep the sick bugs away this year. They predicted another week of this cold weather. As long as it doesn't rain, I'm happy. Oh and it didn't rain on New Year's Day! I tweeted on Twitter to wish them all a Happy New Year as well! I blogged about our little kitten who just loves playing in the snow and I'm blogging here now.
I'd say the New Year is off to a good start! :-))
How 'bout you? Did you make any resolutions? Tell me, I wanna know!

Hugs,
Wezz