Happy New Year!

 Happy New Year!

Looking forward to 2022 with optimism.

I am still trying to work out passwords and photos and such for this space but we've reached that comfortable point of the holidays where the floors are crunchy underfoot and no one really knows what day it is?

Thought I'd do a quick new years "taking stock" post:

Making: calendars for the inlaws and James' office
Getting: excited about being back at kindy next year
Cooking: not much at all - leftovers anyone?
Sipping: blood orange cordial and soda water
Reading: Paris Kiss (about Rodin and his models)
Thinking: That I need to take proper photos on my proper camera this year
Remembering: That I need to look for my SD card and the camera charger
Looking: at the crafty mess on the bedroom floor
Listening: to a far off mower, and the hum of James' electronics
Wishing: it would rain
Enjoying: my gorgeous new-to-me kitchen dresser (still can't believe it was such a bargain and perfect)
Appreciating: how blessed my life is
Wanting: to sort out my craft room
Eating: too much chocolate
Finishing: my test knit for Jessica (hopefully soon)
Liking: Summer dress days
Loving: Braless summer days at home
Buying: a kitchen dresser today, a Kris Kringle gift tomorrow?
Watching: Call the Midwife and Jane Austen films and documentaries on World War 2
Hoping: for trt work in term one (enough that we don't notice that I only have one more regular pay check)
Wearing: Summer floaty dresses and bare feet
Walking: around in my garden a lot
Following: more garden inspiration on instagram
Noticing: that the news makes me anxious
Saving: nice quotes on my phone
Waiting: for the cleaning fairy to do her thing in my craftroom so that I can make a new quilting mess
Bookmarking: funny about that - I received a treasure from my mum for Christmas, one of the original bobbin lace bookmarks I made Gubby when I was first learning bobbin lace, along with two of my early tatted doilies.  How loved did I feel that Gubby had put them aside for me. 
Coveting: Kelsey's kitchen dresser no more! (long standing joke on instagram whenever my friend posts photos with her gorgeous dresser in the background!)
Feeling: so happy and content and in holiday sloth mode and so damn blessed to be living in the lucky country

May this year bring good things for us all,

Keep smiling,

Nell

p.s. last post was written in November but not finished or posted properly?