Holiday Decorations

  Are you decorations still up?  From last years Christmas?  Does that make it seem like so long ago now?  Mine are but they are slowly being packed away.

  Gone are the ornaments all pretty and diverse.

             

  Gone are the lights and twinkling star.

  Gone is the skirt around the tree.  What is that for anyways?  You cover it full of presents.

  Gone are the wreaths that I made this year including  one I didn't show you!  It was really easy to make along with the rest.

  

A Santa wreath!

All you need are these items plus some glue! I picked up everything at the dollar store too so that's $3 plus your glue.  Assemble as the picture above.  The hat is glued at the side to stay on. The white cotton is called glitter drape and o picked out the glitter.  Fluffed it up and ripped it in some strips for more definition and texture.  Glued it all together and Santa is born!

  Then there is the gaping hole.  Waiting for us to make the room complete again.

Christmas is over all the lights, music and decorations go back in storage for another several months.  It's rather sad to put the fun in a box but it will be back, it always comes back.

Have you taken care of your items yet?  Usually mine stay up till my birthday then get packed away.  Are you ready for Valentines Day?  Do you decorate for that?  What is your favorite holiday to decorate for?

2016

  It's here.  The new year is here!  Just in case you were sleeping last night.  It happened early this morning around 12:00.  I was looking for something grand.  All I saw were some confetti, lots of partying and fireworks at various places on tv.

  I woke up this morning and was surprised with all the high expectations I had of a new start with the new year that I would have been at least 5'7, blonde hair and blue eyes and Ahh with a great rack.  None of this happened.  I'm still 5'3, black hair, brown eyes and the same rack I have had for the last few years.

  No magic washed away the old me and no new magic made the world a better place.  I woke up to the same world.  The news will start a clean tally of the cities individual crimes ( I hate that).  First robbery of 2016 in this city and first murder in this city.  I always find that depressing.  Why keep track so we can rejoice at the end if the numbers are lower than the previous year?

  Well I don't like to feel left out of the social loop of making resolutions that I can toss away carelessly after I took days and months to make. So I too made some.  I will not brag and say I don't give up on mine.  I like to say mine become more of a intermittent resolution.  Meaning I don't focus on them everyday on a regular basis.

  This year I have took a long look at a few things and have narrowed down some areas I want to focus on.

2016 Goal

This is the year to volunteer!
I want to volunteer in a variety of areas and with a variety of organizations!

I want to read more
 - 52 weeks to read a book a week

Create more both with crafting with my kids to DIY projects for myself or as gifts!

My words to live by:
Motivation, determination, inspire, desire and achieve

I would love to make it to Hawaii this year. It's not like I haven't been but I would like to go back.

I look forward to leaping into the beauty world!

I also just want to find satisfaction and peace for my own well being.

  I would love to hear some of yours.  I have made some goals on the side.  Some daily, weekly and monthly goals just to give me more to do, lol.

Happy 2016 everyone!!