January Newsletter and My Word for the year from Cherry Menlove

We’re here!

We made it.

We have stepped in to 2010, leaving the noughties behind us, and already I can sense great, wonderful and courageous things are going to be happening from here on in.

I can see the tiny specks of beauty in the every day, lightness in the home and a real appreciation of all that surrounds us beginning to pervade my thoughts and thus enriching the time that I spend planning what goes up on to this website.

This newsletter is a fun one to write as it can be so full of possibilities and wishes for the coming year if I want it to be and it just so happens that it is full of all of those things.

Yes, Christmas is over and for many of us, me included, today marks the first proper day back at work and back to some sort of normality. It’s hard not to look at Robert the Husband starting his long commute all over again, the festive remains (odd bits of tinsel and the non-eaten Quality Street) and remember the cosy days of Christmas. But the amazing thing about nature and the magic of the seasons is that to compensate us we have a brand new year to conquer and, I’m pleased to say, SPRING is right around the corner.

This New Year also marks the forth time that I have chosen a word for the year instead of making a resolution.

2007 my word was Organisation

2008 my word was Focus

2009 my word was Calm

Each time I have chosen a word it seems to have acted like a self fulfilling prophecy and without knowing it at the time I have really needed the word that I chose on a hunch the previous January.

And so for this year my word is LIFE. Not just because I have two lives growing inside of me at the moment but because I feel the need for more LIFE. 2009 was amazing on so many levels, a few of which I still can’t reveal, but it was also a FREAKING roller-coaster. Robert the Husband and I got to the end of 2009 looked at each other and said “We have to have more fun next year!!!!”

So we’re going to. We’re going to live life, give life, love life and hopefully, HOPEFULLY, a great deal of this new attitude will rub off and find its way on to this website.

Boy, do we have some plans afoot for this place. I love this website. I love working on it, creating for it, dreaming about it and adding more ’stuff’ to it and in 2010 this website will be bursting with LIFE as my own life spills out on to its pages!

Of course I do have to take it a wee bit easy as running a creative business/website/several other projects makes one busy but, BUT, all I have to do if it gets too much is ask myself if what I am doing right now is living or simply making it through the day? If it’s the latter then I know I have some shuffling to do.

I can let you all in on some brand new plans we have lined up though. Here are only six of them, in no particular order …..

Monthly giveaways for everyone
A brand new place to chat, post, comment and meet other great folks online
Super new craft downloads and patterns
A brand new series to be announced
My pregnancy diary
The creation of my wonderful new flower, herb and veggie garden in the paddock

Oh, and HUGE amounts of fresh colour, but more on that anon.

Have a great January and “Hello” to all of the new people who have started to visit me so frequently. It’s great to see you here and I thank you for taking the time to stop by. It can only get more exciting/creative/vibrant and HUGE around here so I very much look forward to sharing it with each and every one of you.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my round up of 2009. Yep, I’m also compiling my forth annual ‘Year in Pictures”.

Blimey!