The last of the ornaments (my favorite handmades here) got packed up and put away over the weekend. Christmas has almost vanished here, except for my poor wilting poinsettias. I always feel sorry for the ones that have to come and live at my house. Their days are always very numbered-- can't keep the things alive for longer than three weeks no matter how hard I try.
Sophey made our New Year's Eve cake. We came up with the idea a few years ago, I think it's our new tradition. We all blow the candles out at midnight and make a wish for the coming year. It's kinda nice.
We usually order Chinese and stay in on New Year's Eve. This was the messsage in my fortune cookie. It seemed so appropriate for the past year. 2009 was one of the hardest years I've had. Losing my Mom has been tough on so many different levels. I haven't talked much about it all-- who wants to come to a blog for inspiration and find sadness... But I'm grateful for all the wonderful goodness in my life, and I've tried to stay focused on all that goodness. Working to stay focused on the love, and beauty in this family and home has pulled me through. Focusing on creativity has helped me heal and find joy more than I could have ever imagined. Since I was a little girl, I've always created. I've spent years creating professionally too. It's something that's in me-- a need needing to always find expression. It makes me so happy to be in the middle of the creative process. So many people think the pursuit of art and craft is just fluff. It's not. But I know now that I really didn't understand the awesome power of creativity until this last year... It is tranformational power, power that can take a painful heart and make something completely new start to grow again inside.
So all that being said-- here's to 2010! I have to say, I breathed a sigh of relief when the clock struck midnight and 2009 was officially over. Thanks for all the lessons... but I hope I don't need to repeat those lessons again this year. (I'd like an order of nice soft lessons for a year, thank you very much.)
I've got lots of plans in the work for 2010. My time is more my own now. And my mind is running along with ideas-- how to make this old blog better, how can I serve more through creativity, how can I share more this passion to create. Lots to think about... I'm working on it.
And thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and offer sweet, kind words of encouragement. It means the world to me. I am constantly amazed at what's happening in our little corner of blogland. I believe this is what true community is really all about. People sharing and supporting so freely-- without any thought of what's in it for me. We can learn and share and be inspired to keep journeying along on our creative paths-- without competition. And that is a pretty amazing thing to me, my friends! THANKS!!! xoxoKelly


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