A New Blank Page

So a new year starts and 365 blank pages stare at me excitedly once again.  I'm not one for New Year resolutions as they scare me with their threat of failure.  Once again I will ditch those pounds (as let's face it, we don't eat like that every day!), once again I will do more exercise (because the weather will get better... eventually), once again I will be more organised (as I don't have to rush about getting Christmas presents until the end of the year!)  Promising myself things because Big Ben has chimed at midnight will not help.  To me January 1st is another day with the difference that (and here is where I do get excited) a nice blank clean diary can be started ♥

Oh yes, my love of the note book/journal is at a height at this time of year and those that know me oh so well had wrapped me up some beauties for the tree.  I had actually bought myself a mighty oober humungous handsome devil before Christmas and have been itching to decorate and start filling in those gorgeous blank pages.  Two pages to a day!  Just waiting to be filled with the both equally exciting and the mundane thoughts running through my mind.  

Washi tape, coloured pencils, glue, postcards, sketches... yes, my plan will be a very thumbed and tatty book by the end of the year (don't you just love a tatty book?!).

I needed a cover though and as much trawling through Etsy and Ebay, I just couldn't find what I wanted, so a bit of shopping (very slow on crutches - but determined!), I bought these.

And then added them to the stash as I decided to make this!!

Well, correction, I did use some of the papers and supplies but didn't feel it was "me", and then found a Greenwich map and the creative juices flowed!

So, January 1st and the ink has just started to weave it's curves and lines in the book.  I hope that life will allow me even just an hour to work on this each day and that as the days turn into weeks, a glance will show exactly where I am from the tatty pages already thumbed.

Today has however been full to brimming with getting our home back to normal.  As I type this my feet are complaining and telling me off - what did the nurse say? "Absolute rest!", oh dear!  But it is so lovely to see fresh flowers dotted around the newly cleaned spaces.  It gives a real sense of achievement and makes me smile with so much content.

I only bought three bunches for £2 each, but there must have been six bunches per bunch as I ended up filling every vessel I could find!

My dresser is looking so neat and tidy after the festivities.  It had been quite cluttered but now my eyes feel cleansed each time I look at it, especially with another container full of flowers ♥

Another thing that I do think of at the beginning of the year is my word for the coming months.  Last year it was BALANCE.  How true this was, especially at the end of the year with me balancing my feet!  This year I am going to be bold and say...

POSITIVE

I lost my way last year and it reflected in my blog writing, my variety escaped me and I became more focused on my trips out and about rather than what was happening around me.  So with newly decorated and blank journal in hand (or should I say trolley!), I can look back at each week and remember all those lovely heart warming moments to share along with filling this jar with a positive thought from each week to unravel at the end of 2016.

So, with a deep satisfying breath I will publish this now for all my lovely readers (you are all so extremely special to me) and relax in my normal, happy home.  My big POSITIVE year now begins!

A very Happy New and Positive Year to you all.