A Fresh Start, A New Year!!

Happy New Year to you all!

I am feeling so restless this week. Christmas is over, and the new year is here now....

and once again I am definitely not ready for it...

I need to do some heavy clearing of my house,

out with the old and clearing space for a new beginning.
I am not the only one amongst my friends saying

that we feel like shifting some things. Emotional, physical and spiritual...

Not looking forward to the new year until I have done all that...

I realise that I have been saying and doing the same old things for so long

and I am wanting a change!...

Do I give up my embroidery classes and give away all the pretty things...

so much to clear away if I decide to do that....?

so many happy memories even if I do....

I would love to be able to focus on one thing and do it well, but my interests in my hypnotherapy & counselling work, as well as collage art and rose embroidery, keep me jumping from one thing to another, and never feeling like I am doing any of it justice...

While I may spend a whole day trying to paint a face for a collage, I am thinking that I should be studying for the extra diploma I am going for... maybe I would still feel like this if I only had only one thing to concentrate on...?

and hey...aren't we woman supposed to be able to multi task?

I'd love to get started, making these changes to my life........but it's so d...n hot!!

All my plans to work in the garden over the holidays

and clean out the cupboards is coming to nothing

as I feel exhausted from the heat...

To cheer me up, here are pics of the Fab rose that I got for Christmas from Rach,...hope I can look after it well...as I'm not great at plants in pots, always
over water or underwater somehow...

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. (Abigail Van Buren)

collage called "winds of change"

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. (von Goethe)

A Celebration of Gold & White Roses

Here is my Christmas collage to you all, see the back below...

Now that my daughter's engagement party and her birthday are over, both wonderful occasions to have shared with her, it's time to get ready to celebrate the end of year festive season....

Shopping trips and that awful shopping mall muzak lie in wait as something I'd rather avoid, but we all get caught up in making preparation for a special day and celebrating that another year has passed, as well as the significance for those that have religious values.....

My wish is for Peace within for All...

Looking forward to time off from everything over the next few months, time to actually stop...even though my life is slower than most, as I don't work full time now, but there is always something to do. So, I promise myself to let go of DOING...and spend more time just BEING...quiet, peaceful, calm, relaxed...

To all my dear friends out there in blogland, my wish is for you to "Garnish your celebrations with hugs & kisses"...

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me. Peace Pilgrim

Here's a picture of me with Santa...okay a lonnnnng time ago....

A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL