Happy New Year!

 

 

 Happy 2022 everyone! Hope you all enjoyed a lovely holiday season. It was a mostly quiet time for hubby and I and we enjoyed his having time off by watching lots of movies. I did have our traditional New Year's Day meal of pork and sauerkraut with my Mom, Todd, and Kyra. And the dessert was a cake I made with a wrapped, hidden quarter in it. Whoever gets it in their piece has good luck through the year. I let each person one at a time choose where they would like me to cut out their slice ( I should have taken pictures of my butchered cake 😂) Todd was the winner!

I'm going to begin with the last three journal pages I did for the December Creative 6 Day Challenge on Instagram:

                                                                   Day 4 (Sparkle/Shine)

       

                Hard to see the shine but over the fiber paste areas I sprinkled champagne glitter dust.

                                                                   Day 5 (Wonder)

 The image is a digital piece I created using various components from Paper Whimsy. I made a print of it to glue to my collaged and painted background page. I will link this to Art Journal Journey with this month's theme of "Let's Face It" hosted by Erika.

 And the last one- Day 6 (Spirit) All my pages were done in the Dina Wakley Kraft Journal::

 For T Stands For Tuesday I'll share the soup I made the other day for dinner:

 A nice big pot of Italian Wedding Soup. All we needed with it were some warm rolls and a glass of wine. Cheers!

 The first pic I added at the beginning of this post is a tag I made for Tag Tuesday (theme is Time and Clocks):

 

 And lastly I want to share a few of the lovely cards I received for Christmas. Believe it or not, there are cards still trickling in, and some of what I sent (weeks ago!!) are just being delivered. Glad to hear from people so I know.

  On the top left is a fab tip in page and darling tree ornament made by Elizabeth. I love that embossed tree so cleverly done on a paint chip card, and that ornament is now on my small tree which is filled with handmade ornaments only. Thank you dear Elizabeth!! The Paris card with the piled packages came from Erika- and though it wasn't handmade I absolutely loved it because of the Paris scene- and Erika knows how I love France. Thank you Erika for your thoughtfulness! The two lovely cards on the right were from friends who don't blog now but have been exchanging handmade cards with me for some years now 💓.  

 So... do you have or choose a word of the year?  I do and have done for some years now. I go through a little routine to find a few words that speak to me. And then I wait for one of them to show up in different ways within a few days. It never fails me that the word finds me. If you saw my new header I created that postcard around my word 😉. In my next post I'll talk more about it and share more art around my word, along with some special surprises I received over the holidays. 

 Linking my art to Paint Party Friday later in the week. Looking forward to catching up in blogland again!

" What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."     Vern McLellan