A New Year, new projects, new ideas

Are you also enthusiastic for the New Year? Every New Year, I get a warm ‘n fuzzy feeling inside, I feel rejuvenated and ready to take on NEW things.

This year I want to reNEW, change and create!

Here are the plans:

• Move into our long-anticipated bush-lodge holiday home - After extensive renovations which have taken about 8 months so far. We’re hoping to be all settled in with (new!) furniture and all by the end of February. (Will soon show you some “before & after” pics.)
• Re-do all the upstairs bedrooms at home from top to toe – including the floors. Yippee- can’t wait for this!
• Tidy up & revamp my studio (again!) – an ongoing project! –‘nough said!
• Exercise till it makes a difference – & then keep it up!!
• Start sewing my own clothes again! I really need to do this - I used to really enjoy it!
• Paint a whole lot more!

So, that being said, here’s to 2012!

I’d also like to share a painting with you that I completed in November 2011. I loved this gorgeous vintage postcard from The Graphics Fairy so much that I printed a copy and kept it for ages before I got around to painting it.

I love how it turned out. I had modge-podged scrapbook ‘script’ printed paper onto a canvas and decided to do a slightly mixed-media painting by painting the angels on top. I kept the edges of the painting quite expressive and undetailed and even scratched into the paint here and there.

The faces of the angels were just to beautiful not to do in more detail, so they got given a more realistic approach but again, I changed it here & there as copying the original ‘to the last brushstroke’ is not my thing.

Hope you all have a peaceful, happy & creative 2012!

Vxx

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Happy 2011!

 

I wish you the very best for 2011! May all your dreams come true!

What are your plans for 2011?

I plan to really get creative in 2011! I want to be more active on my blog, making it more interesting with lots of free stuff and ideas.

I want to sew again! I plan on painting my out for our exhibition this year – we have an awesome theme for this year {more about that another time}.

I want to get my kids motivated for school {well, at least try!}; I want to redecorate our bedroom; the kids’ playrooms; Shannon’s bedroom & the formal lounge. I also would love to renovate and refurnish our holiday home in the bushveld. I’m going to plan our next holiday…

 

CLICK HERE for some printable Happy New Year clocks – 1 large one and 6 small ones. Use them for cupcake toppers, to embellish banners, as a Happy New Year wreath or anything you else your creative mind can come up with. – Enjoy!

{If you have any trouble with the download, please let me know so that I can repair the problem – Thank you}

Have a fabulous New Year!