One Year Out and The Other One In!

I won't be the only one to be happily saying goodbye to 2012. For many, and as mentioned in my last post it's been quite a difficult year for so many people. No matter how positive we try to be we just can't help but get affected by it. 

Every year I seem to say the same think "Time is going by so fast.... where did that year go and what in the hell happened!". 

These days I don't keep a journal or diary... although I know I should. This year in particular I have had so many things happen around me that I found it too personal to write them all up on the Creative Spirit...... which is a bit ironic when you think of not so long ago I created the Honest Blogger Award and planned to spill out the good, the bad and the ugly. 

Some things of course were things that my friends and family  were going through,  and it wasn't my place to air publicly the problems and losses they were having to deal with. 

Actually, looking at my stats for 2012 I posted 62 blog posts.... which is better than 2010 when I posted just 32.... so perhaps this year has been better than I give it credit for! 

Apart from the business taking off, probably one of the best things to happen in 2012 is the birth of our second Grand-child, Mylo, back in February.  

Of course, remembering the BIG THINGS is always far easier, than the small ones and this year I'm planning on a new strategy and I'm encouraging you all to do this too.

The ideas is simple. A jar which you fill with Memories. You can call your jar: 

The Memory Jar - For the little things that happen

Blessing Jar - Counting your blessings

Gratitude Jar - Things to be grateful for

Wishing Jar - Your wishes and your dreams

However it works best for you.

I'm writing mine on Rainbow coloured paper,

so I can look at it on those down days and remember that through the dark and the rain... bright rainbows appear. 

Start in January and on New Years Eve 2013,

it will be a great reminder that the year just past,

has not all been bad and will bring back memories of those all important little things :-)

Regular readers of my blog, know that I don't make New Years Resolutions... I'm not perfect enough and would break them too easily.... which would be a FAIL in my eyes! Instead I write a *WISH*LIST*. I do this on New Years Eve and it's a ritual I have done for many years. I don't really think of this list all year through, but always amazed at how much of it came true without me even trying! 

Oh and of course.... at the start of a new year a word comes to me. This year the word was Opportunity.  I'm quite shocked looking back at how much opportunity has presented itself this year! 

As yet.... my word for 2013 has not come to me.

But I know it will.... and I will share it with you when it does. 

So..... as I post my last post for 2012,

I wish you all the very best for the coming year,

With love and the brightest of blessings,

Pixie Sue xoxox

Yule Blessings....To all my readers!

Happy Yuletide Blessings...

My card to you.....

You may have noticed, my postings have been thin on the ground.... in fact VERY thin on the ground over the last couple of months!

It's been one helluva crazy year. My little Grandson born in February, joining my little Grand-daughter Daisy.... both of which Grandma RaRa and Grand-dad Steve adore and love spending spare time with them. They are both growing up so quickly! I can't believe that Daisy Doodles is 3 in March.... and to be fair...... she's as mad a box of frogs .... my son says she's just like me! (Where does he get that idea from?). 

The decision to go head long into wedding Invitations and Stationery has kept me very busy, especially with the resulting change around of the studio and Gallery so that things look more focused. Then of course there has been Wedding Fairs. 

Steves Kiln Fired Jewellery has also taken off big style and we are now doing a Sunday People's Market, which is a great community of makers and shakers.... and it's good to connect with such high spirited folk and be welcomed as part of a 'locally based' business, even though we live almost 20 miles away :-)

Then I decided I needed some time out.... away from thinking about work, creativity and new ideas and for once in my life I just had to get off my backside and exercise! 

So.... off to ZUMBA class we went! Dancing, loud music, exersise, oh and some mad moves! What more could you ask for? I never knew I could loose so much body water and stay alive! 

I've had a lot of friends or their off-spring with pretty serious health problems this year  and I've spent a lot of energy trying to keep them afloat and be supportive too.

To be honest... it's been a pretty exhausting year. Yule is a time for celebrating the dark.... the light is coming back slowly. I'm never at my best at this time of the year and the lack of sunshine this year certainly hasn't been helpful for many people. Hopefully the holiday break will do everyone some good.... as we look over and reflect on the year past.

I hope you have lots of fun and happy smiles during your break. Come back refreshed and with renewed optimism for 2013. 

If you want to catch up on my Calligraphy and Lettering work... I have (almost) kept on top of my other blogs:

http://inspiredbyscript.blogspot.com

and http://northyorkshireweddings.blogspot.com

Many of the people who used to read this blog are now friends on FB, so I suppose I am more likely to post on there than write copious amounts of rabble on here. If you want to join them, send me an email to inspiredbyscript@yahoo.co.uk  and I'll send you the link :-)

See you in the New Year! 

xoxox