Happy New Year
14th Dec - Christmas CarolsSo here we are in 2007. I do so wish all my family and friends a Very Happy New Year. I hope some of our dreams and wishes are fulfilled but mostly that we can all live in peace, enjoy some happiness and keep our health. We will never have all we wish for but we must wish for it. Life is hope and hope is what makes up human. The spirit we all have defines us so uniquely and it gives our lives purpose.
I am fundamentally not a ‘looking back’ type of person, I am of the ‘looking forward’ variety. What is done is done and we can do nothing about it so it is time to look forward.
I don’t make resolutions but Andrew and I do map out a little of our hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Last night, more like this morning in the wee hours, it was fairly unanimous that we look forward to small improvements in many things, our home, the children, in ourselves and how we react to situations. We just want to do the best we can by our children and most of our 
15th Dec - Visitorswishes have them at the centre. We are a long way from perfect and acknowledging our frailties helps us focus on the areas we don’t like better. This year we want more than anything to turn down our volume. Lets not shout if we can talk. Our relationship with our eldest son has been fragile for most of 2006, we want to build better relations with him and more talking and less yelling will help that cause. Andrew needs to build a better bond with Chelsea. They have always clashed a little and she is growing up into a lovely young lady who is very huffy, yes, well what do you expect she is almost 12 haha, but she can hold her own and puts such effort into everything she does and that needs appreciated by him a little more.
So we covered all those bases and made a plan for the house improvements and how we would manage them having done so badly at it in 2006. A good start I think. I like a plan and it works for me to have one.
On a personal note I want to improve my Photography and do a course this year. I am enjoying my camera so much and love the lighting that I was very lucky to receive this Christmas. I want to use it well so that is my big challenge.
19th Dec - Dear SantaIt is almost a year ago since I started scrapbooking. A whole year! I cannot believe what I have managed to achieve in that time. I have filled album after album this year, its quite astonishing to see the amount of scrapping that has been completed. I have enjoyed a little unexpected success on Design Teams and I look forward to improving my scrapping and doing the best job I can for my DT’s. I don’t plan to add anymore to my list as I think I can comfortably manage what I have now with no pressure and that leaves me room for other things too. I want to really enjoy the hands on class work I do for Carol at Craft Heaven, I want to support Roz, Ms Lippy Chick herself and be part of the new venture in a more fulfilling way. (I have plans ya know teehee!) and Jillybeans kits are just so fantastic and she herself such a lovely lady, I want to do the best I can. I am far from perfect, I know where my weakness are but I am normally enthusiastic and motivated person. I more than anything need to be more confidant and believe in myself a little more. I can’t please everyone all of the time but I don’t have too. I just need to keep creating!
I am going to attend a few craft/scrapping weekends this year and I have taken a leap of faith to go alone to a weekend with people I have never met in the summer. For me to feel I belong and I can trust I need to know to whom I am talking & sharing with. Attending weekends with people I have come to know across web based communities will help me in that quest. I am looking forward to it all.
So here is to 2007 and all the hope and promises that it brings. I hope you all stay with me on the journey and I am going to stay with all of you. Here is to a craft and personal journey that will bring joy along the way. No doubt it will be interspersed with screwed plans and moments of despair but that is life and as long as the good outweighs the bad we will all be alright!
Love & Hugs
Heather xx
Di wrote,
You have achieved so much in the year you have been scrapping Heather which proves that you are truly talented and your work is an inspiration to us all.
May 2007 be fabulous for you.
Take care xx
Link | January 1st, 2007 at 11:50 am
Scrapdolly wrote,
Heather what a fab entry - So open and honest and REAL. I loved that yous hared it. I hope that at one of your scrapping forays out we get to meet up. You are a much cherished friend.
Happy new year to you and the family Karen xxxx
Link | January 1st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Yizzard wrote,
I’ve just been looking at all your christmas journal pages and they are all fab.
Happy New Year to you and yours.
Link | January 1st, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Roz wrote,
Yer, the New year, a new start, here’s to friends old and new, and to you, my best scrapping buddy, can’t wait to actually sit down with you soon and create. Kissy Wissy’s to you and the clan.
Link | January 1st, 2007 at 7:10 pm
MJ wrote,
Heather this is a lovely entry, and I hope you 2007 goes as planned hun, sending you hugs for the New Year.
MJ xx
Link | January 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 am
Heather (the other one!) wrote,
Happy New Year Heather - I hope your wishes and dreams come true and I really do hope this is a fantastic one for you and your family.
Take Care
Heather
xx
Link | January 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 am
Sally R wrote,
Heather - quite inspirational reading. I hope you have a wonderful year with your families and that all your hopes and ambitions are realised. Thank you for your friendship in 2006. It has meant a great deal.
Link | January 2nd, 2007 at 8:04 am
Linda wrote,
Heather, You deserve all the success that has come your way and I hope there is much more of it ahead for you. Wishing you and your family all you wish for yourselves, take care and see you soon x
Link | January 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 am