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my creative space: making a list …

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Well the Christmas lists are done and dusted so now it is on to that other list: one for 2011. Are you doing a list for 2011 ~ things you want to do, see, make, grow? I think that really it can be a list of anything. Mine is a list of achievements really ~ things I want to do, get done, achieve in 2011.

So, today, I’m thinking, jotting down, writing, reading. I’ve done a little download for you too {see below}, my little brainstorming sheet for intentions, goals, resolutions, whatever you want to call it, for 2011. I need to scribble down some of the jumbled thoughts in my head before I can make a proper list. And this year I really want a proper list, I’m in danger of putting too much pressure on myself or spending days trying to make the perfect list. I think I will make January 1, 2011 a very firm deadline!

In the meantime, I’ve also gathered some links to get you thinking and inspired, if  you are so inclined, on the starting the new year.

And for business:

If you would like a copy of the sheet above, click here.

The file is a pdf ~ right-click on the link and Save Target/Link As.

Check back tomorrow for the January calendar download ~ I’ve given the layout a little tweak!

the three r’s ~ reflection, resolutions, reverb

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Well, it’s that time of year isn’t it? Looking back on the past, looking ahead to the future ~ reflection.

I have totally dropped the ball on #reverb10 {there’s a resolution in there somewhere!}, one day behind turned into many. I read the prompts each day and thought about them, just never got anything down. Mind you, some of them weren’t really sparking anything with me. Also, some prompts I find myself thinking of the same things I have already written about. But I thought I would do a quick catch-up in what I may have learned from the ones in the past one {two?} weeks as we ready for the biggest and best fresh start of all, a new year.

I’m calling this speed reflection, which I think misses the point a tad, but it has still been an interesting process. Without further ado:

  • Capture only five minutes: laughter
  • Friendship: Takes more work than I have been giving it {must work on that}
  • Lesson learned: I am live in a world of organised chaos, and it is actually not how I like to live!
  • Try: To be better
  • Travel: There are places I want to see in the world, but I hate leaving my home. In fact, I get quite anxious about it. I need to let go and be a bit more of an adventurer.
  • Ordinary joy: This is one of the recurrent ones, laughter: spontaneous children’s laughter, those moments when we are all in unanimous giggles
  • Achieve: Growth. My resolutions and creative goals.

This isn’t all the prompts and while I haven’t devoted the time to this that I perhaps should have or wanted to, it has been a really good process leading up to a new year and setting up some goals for 2011. It has helped me pinpoint those things that stood out and which are obviously important to me.

Do you make resolutions or goals for the new year? Last year I struggled with setting any, but this year I am excited and ready to start a new year with some firm targets in mind.

I’ll be sharing my resolutions later in the week, as well as some great links I found about making and keeping resolutions {or goals, or whatever you like to call them}.

Also:

  • The new year will bring something a little new to le blog that I have been working on
  • There will be another sale on my printable calendars
  • a January calendar download
  • And early in the new year, a special mini-print sale

noel, joy and scrabble ~ a christmas table

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It’s all done and dusted now but I thought I would share some pictures of our Christmas table, as the ideas are really portable to any time of year. Christmas dinner is a small affair for us, but it doesn’t mean we don’t try and pull out some special touches.

This year, the focus was on letters and words, and a sort of vintage chic feel. I made placecard “photos” inspired by this idea from Marie Nichols, using scrabble tiles to spell out the names. Each image included some festive touches plus a couple of items pertinent to the person {I had some little helpers with this}.

I grabbed some letters from Spotlight, which spelt out joy and noel, and the brown hessian for a table runner. We used some corks, cut and spliced, to hold the photos and I had some napkins refashioned out of vintage tea towels from a friend. For that cosy feel, I had some tealights and some pinecone candles from Dusk.

Everyone “took home” their placecard and I haven’t had the heart to clear the table yet. I have until about the 5th, right?

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