Christmas 2023

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Originally posted on Facebook 31st December, 2023, at 11:59pm.

Dear Friend,

As this year now winds to its grand finale, I am hopeful that you and yours are all in good health and happiness.

I have been thinking about how to approach this letter for the past month, writing many drafts in mind that have since been crumbled up like proverbial pieces of writing parchment. I am forgoing publishing it on my site for now for practical reasons; it will by published there in due course. (Edited: now DONE … obviously. )

Suffice to say, my sons are both well and happy and doing great in their work. I can hardly believe that they are now 20, and 18 respectively. We spent many Sundays together this year, Family Day, enjoying each other’s company, rediscovering places and things that we used to love doing together when my boys were young. I love my guys with all my heart and fully feeling the reality of their status as young adults now, this year empty nest grief has left an indelible mark on my heart.

White PoinsettiaStill, there is much to ponder in other matters as the final moments of this year tick away, extinguishing a period of time since the last New Year’s Eve that has been incredibly difficult for so very many many people in our post-COVID world, a world embroiled in social structure crisis brought about by cost of living pressures, and global housing shortages. I have worked hard to keep myself positive.

White PoinsettiaMy greatest achievement this year was to have survived. There were many many days when I was stressed out of my gourd from lack of food and the charitable support services had very little on offer to actually help. I was enrolled for an engineering degree at uni, but I couldn’t attend anything; I didn’t have enough money for food. I didn’t have enough money for fuel. I didn’t have any money for parking. I didn’t have any money for public transport. I didn’t have any money for student guild membership fees. So I ended up withdrawing from the program. I completely bottomed out when I became extremely sick again a few months ago. The nails on my big toes stopped growing again, as has happened too many times in the last 14 years, although not quite as badly as has happened in years past. This time only one of my big toe nails is in the process of detaching and falling off as it grows out. Wanna see a photo?… see the first comment on this post and prepare for eeeuwww factor 1000 … trust me, it looks worse without the nail polish. (Edited: Sorry; not going to share those pics again.)

White PoinsettiaNonetheless, I totally worked my exhausted butt off this year. I managed to develop a style guide for my personal and business correspondence. I started developing a style guide for my in-house referencing system (more about that another time). Furthermore, I have refined my design style and worked diligently behind the scenes on numerous projects, all of which are going to be released in due course. I started hand crafting crepe paper flowers ~ wall art pieces available for sale soon. The website is currently in a state of hold after a server migration that was only partially complete and requires a database cleanup. Unfortunately, I was too ill to deal with it at the time and I have been working as much as I can on what I can when I can since. I’ve also started sketching detailed plans for the interior of my van. This new year, I will complete the van restoration work; I need money to do that. I tried very hard to get into paid employment this year and to get my business earning; praying that my efforts will pay off in 2024.


So wrapping this year in the precious tissue papers of glorious memory, I have decided upon my ownWORD.

In previous years, I have tended to focus solely upon characteristics, traits and practices that I felt I needed to develop within my personality and my personal space from the psyche point of view. This time around I feel as though I need to change my physical state of being, to become fully embodied of my belief system. I’ve eaten far too many chocolate bars and bags of crisps over the past few years and it shows. I’m actually embarrassed to go swimming and I love swimming. Currently, I feel all sloppy, uncoordinated, irritated and generally out of sorts, although I must concede that a lot of that is due to sheer exhaustion (fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are bitches)… so this has to change!

I do still practice yoga as much as I am physically able within the confines of the van floor space, and I have just discovered a portable ice bath tub for under a hundred dollars. ~I totally want one of those ice bath tubs so that I can finally embrace the Wim Hof method. Also, I will be taking up walking again in a few days – I miss my walks, especially hiking with my sons when we were travelling.

This year’s ownWORD 2023 was KINDNESS ~ I learned that the true essence and power of kindness is in its existence and persistence in the face of the human weakness of unkindness, of cruelty. A powerful year of learning.

White PoinsettiaLooking forward, my ownWORD for 2024 is SVELTE.

svelte /svɛlt/ :
adjective, svelt·er, svelt·est.

Slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; attractively thin; lithe.
Suave; blandly urbane.
Refined, delicate.
Early 19th century: from French, from Italian svelto.

I positively LOVE that this word applies not only to a person’s physical state but also to the world around them in all its marvels of magnificent manifestation.

As is my custom, I created a layout to honour my ownWORD 2024 ~ the page is the epitome of svelte.

ownWORD 2024 SVELTE - A Digital Scrapbook Layout encapsulating my special intentional focus word for the year ahead, with a minimalist presentation of my focus word nestling upon a soft icy blue and grey palette aside a simple floral cluster.
Digital Scrapbook Layout: ownWORD 2024 SVELTE

White PoinsettiaI am, and everything in my world is, positively Svelte!

“Strength and elegance are her clothing, and she will laugh in the final days.” (Proverbs 31:25)

“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” (Proverbs 31:30)

“Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.” (Giorgio Armani)

“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

“Elegantia est lepos.” (Elegance is grace.)

“Lord, grant me peace above all else no matter the circumstances I may face this year.” (Philippians 4:6-7)

White PoinsettiaThis time next year, my deepest wish is to post that I conquered the Art of Svelte during 2024.

That’s all for now. Enjoy the fireworks, if you have them where you are, and the good times with family and friends; stay safe.

Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy and blessedly prosperous New Year.

With much love and kindest wishes.

Anita
xxx

PS: Be svelte and party on dudes!

Christmas 2022

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And so it is, my good friends, that we find ourselves again in the waning hours of a calendar year. Time truly flew past quickly this year! Tempus fugit!

Penning this epistle is now becoming a fondly looked forward to tradition as I recall some of the wonderful moments in the day to day minutiae and bigger canvas of LIFE.

Putting some thoughts together today, it is exactly two weeks until Christmas ~ getting an early start this year. I will add final thoughts here in the waning hours of the year as we all count down to midnight … Tick tick tick …

And so I write this Dear Friend Open Letter, wrapping up the Christmas Message for 2022, welcoming the New Year of 2023, eagerly anticipating another fresh start.

Andiamo!

Dear Friend,

Compliments and felicitations to you and yours. That this epistle again finds you all in good health and great cheer, celebrating in the spiritual tradition of your family, is my heartfelt wish.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … Approaching midnight this year, I find myself sitting in a beautiful spot about 55 kilometers north of Fremantle, with a stunning, 180° view of the Indian Ocean.

The air is cool and a breeze is blowing; the Freo Doctor as the locals have named it. I am loving the freshness of it, the delicate salt tang of it, the coolness of it and the way that the skin on my cheeks tingles in the wake of even the slightest salty little gust as I reflect on the year just gone.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … This year, my sons and I all went through that blasted pandemic thingy and came through to the other side bright eyed and perky tailed. I have seen a new level of humanity. The kindness that I have seen, the empathy, the understanding and compassion… The pandemic here is Perth is now a thing of the past in the sense that we no longer have any restrictions in place. We are blessed to have experienced one of the world’s best case scenarios right from the first days of lockdown through to our world leading vaccination rates.

Despite that, we are still experiencing thousands of new cases each week and losing people to the disease. It makes me very sad that humanity is still just not capable of effectively coming together and collectively stomping a virus into non-existence despite our technological capabilities … yet.

All I feel is deep gratitude for the health care system that we have here.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … As always family has been in mind, every single day.

Both of my boys have gained a start in their professional lives and are growing into handsome young gentlemen. I am very proud of both of them and all their fine accomplishments.

Sadly, the year started with me grieving my Father’s passing. He left us a couple of days after Christmas last year. Due to lack of money for an airfare and accommodation combined with COVID-19 restrictions, I could not attend his funeral in person. I did, however, attend via live-stream. Unfortunately, I had to park my van in a disgustingly littered and polluted car park because it was the only spot I could think of that was a goodly distance away from others so that I could have at least a semblance of privacy and dignity in my grief during the service.

I sobbed my heart out.

That was hard.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … During April I started having problems with van power shortages again. I have tried multiple times to work in libraries and cafes. Due to chemical sensitivities stemming from fibromyalgia, working long hours inside libraries with all the VOCs from printing inks in the books and magazines etc makes me very sick. So do cafes, because of controlled release fly sprays indoors. Oh, and I can’t currently pay for coffee and cake all day long in open air cafes.

Solar panels are brilliant when the full summer sun is shining on them, but late-autumn, winter and even early-spring caught me out again this year.

So …. my design work went down the gurgler again for a while. Writing on an iPad that is so out of date that Apple are no longer supporting it with firmware updates is REALLY difficult.

Nonetheless, I did manage to do a lot of drawings, and sketches, planning content on paper, developing business strategies, experimenting with hand crafting flowers, writing some of the poetry that I use for inclusion in the overlays of my design work, documenting business policies and procedures, creating lists, applying SEO to articles, posts and images, fiddling with CSS settings and PHP code snippets, and learning, learning, learning.

Now, to apply all that I have achieved this year toward overcoming barriers, that is the challenge for the year ahead.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … covering the middle of the year, briefly: In May-June-July I finally stopped doing fast food courier app work. Basta!!! I had another birthday in August. September I got very, very, very sick. During October I was bashed by a stranger in a public car park. In November some mechanical problems started on my van.

This year is a year that I survived.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … Ever the optimist and always looking for the silver lining when black clouds clear, some of the successes of this year have included:

  • I managed to revise and republish a bunch of posts and pages that I felt needed expanding and refining.
  • A bunch of new products have been released this year.
  • I have created new design templates and systems for my workflow.
  • Several new tutorials have been completed and published, as well as existing tutorials revised and expanded with additional text, illustrations and graphics.
  • The Learn to DigiScrap Program is on the verge of being launched.
  • the archivesVAULT has opened, finally! YAY!!!

Success abounds!


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … Christmas Day this year was filled with peace and quiet. We had a pre-Christmas dinner on Friday night which was really lovely. The evening was absolutely glorious, with a cool breeze blowing in from the ocean, across the lake and through to us in the picnic area. We enjoyed a sumptuous yet simple spread including goat cheese and black truffle dip with grissini, open-face scorched garlic bread rolls, fillet steaks with bacon and garlic butter sauce on a bed of BBQ seared veggies, washed down with a nice non-alcoholic sparkling white (the red was all sold out!) and finished off with an oh so sweet and gorgeously glazed fruit celebration cake.

YUUUUUUUMMY!!!

We ate so much our tummies were almost bursting.


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White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … Finally, upon reflecting on the felt-sense of the year, and considering that my last New Year’s ownWORD was FLOURISH, the main thought that bubbles to the surface is that this year was a test and a trial from beginning to end. It was exactly not what I envisaged when I set myself the focus of flourishing everything with love.

Never before have I felt this deeply the roller-coaster of being sorely tested by life circumstances. My patience has been sorely tested. My resilience has been sorely tested. My ability to be kind has been sorely tested. My ability to show compassion has been sorely tested. My integrity has been sorely tested. My bank account has been sorely tested. My health has been sorely tested. My EVERYTHING has been sorely tested!

I strove to flourish this year, creating beauty, order and goodness around me as much as I could. It has been hard but I have managed, somehow, to retain my dignity and humanity, flourishing what I could, where I could. Being bashed by a stranger in a car park was the biggest test of the year and for one fleeting moment I felt how easy it would be to give in to overwhelming ill will.

With grace and decorum, I firmly turned from that unflattering trap, returning attention to what I need to do in the best interests of me and my family.

And so, during 2022, I not only survived, I flourished!

White PoinsettiaTick tick tick … After the trials of the year I feel the need to focus on one of the biggest areas that will benefit my family and I; to go deep within to nurture purity of spirit.

And so it is that in setting the stage for the next phase of my personal evolution, my ownWORD for 2023 is KINDNESS.

ownWORD 2023 KINDNESS - A Digital Scrapbook Layout encapsulating my special intentional focus word for the year ahead, beautifully decorated in a red and white theme with glitter highlights, blossom style silken flowers and bright shiny chrome twin-hearts page charm.
Digital Scrapbook Layout: ownWORD 2023 KINDNESS

Kindness

“From a wise mind comes wise speech; the words of the wise are persuasive. Kind words are like honey – sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.” (Proverbs 16:23-24)

“Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.” (Proverbs 21:21)

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, render true judgements, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” (Zechariah 7:9-10)

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23)

“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.” (Matthew 5:40-43)

“Lord, grant me peace above all else no matter the circumstances I may face this year.” (Philippians 4:6-7)

White PoinsettiaThis time next year, my deepest wish is to post that I bought a home during 2023. My heart and soul are weary of being trapped inside the cage of poverty. My long-time dream is for an exquisitely beautiful family home overlooking the ocean. During 2023, I also need to start taking more photographs again; my photo roll this year has been thin to say the least.


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How has your holiday season been this year? Did you write a Christmas letter? Have you chosen a focus word for your New Year? What is it? I would dearly love to know; post in the comments.

Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year!!!

Be well, do good deeds and keep in touch.

Anita

PS: May the road always rise to meet you on your journey. Carpe diem!

Christmas 2021

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In the waning hours of this calendar year – the second year into the global event that shall not be named – this epistle comes to you from deep within the heart. This year’s Dear Friend Open Letter wrapping up the Christmas Message for 2021 and welcoming the New Year of 2022 is one that closes on a wistful yet hopeful note, brought to you by the colour blue. Here goes …

 

 

Dear Friend,

Tonight, as this year winds down, I serenely sit and listen to the whispering wind as it caresses all in passing. Here at the beach I can hear the waves crashing against the shore creating the gift of brine tinted air that tantalises the senses. What a wonderful way to celebrate the ending of one cycle and the beginning of the next. Where I sit right at this moment I can see the waves sparkling in random flashes as the harbour lights cascade across the surface of the water.

That this epistle finds you and yours all in good health, great cheer, and celebrating in the spiritual tradition of your family, is my deepest wish.

This year, has been one of many mixed and varied blessings. Very little has followed the plans that I had at the beginning of the year and yet I feel as though I have accomplished more this year than in the previous 3 years.

As always family has been in mind, every single day, especially my sons and more recently my Father, who sadly passed away just 4 days ago.

For many years I have loved the song The Three Bells as performed by The Browns, originally a French song, Les trois cloches. I also discovered the beautiful performance by Tina Arena of Les trois cloches, in French.

I find solace and comfort in these songs. The cycles of birth, life and death, the human condition and our spiritual nature, are matters of deep faith for me. And so I have been listening to these tunes many times in the last week and a half as my Father slowly left this Earth and finally breathed his last.

Rest In Peace Dad.

 

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This year, my eldest son turned 18. He is now legally an adult, and as a young adult is filled with energy and ambition and plans for his future. The world is his oyster. Also, he graduated high school this year; I am so very proud of what he has accomplished and the gentle man that he is.

My younger son turned 16 and he too is very much a source of pride. The teenage years thus far have been a bit of a challenge for him on some levels, but his tenacity and strength of character stand him in very good stead.

I love both of my sons with all my heart.   

From the public life side of things:

White FlowerThis year my designing has very much taken a back seat as I worked on other things (specifically food deliveries with two global companies who shall not be named) to try and ride out the financial crisis of the pandemic.

Great success was achieved in that endeavour but it also came at an enormous cost to my health and happiness. I have a lot to say about that experience, and many thoughts on what could be done better; another forum it will be for that discussion to be done.

White FlowerThis year, the podcasts also took a back seat whilst ever remaining at the front of mind… video is still a dream…

Tomorrow is a new day.

White FlowerThe middle of the year saw the implementation of new shopping cart software. Yay! The cart setup is mostly complete, a number of how-to-guides have been written, although there are still a few glitchy things happening. Logins are problematic for some reason … troubleshooting next week.

Having said that, the Design Shop is now also loaded with curated externally sourced products specifically selected for digital scrapbookers and scrapbookers generally. This is the monetisation phase of the website so that there is a supportive base to launch and grow the product offerings.

Also, planning workshops, although these will have to wait until we have a little more certainty about whether or not there will be any future lockdowns.

Changing topic back to the Design Shop for a moment:

Have you ever felt absolutely, completely and utterly, ridiculously happy when you finally achieved a little milestone?

That’s exactly how I feel right at this minute.

You ask “Why?” And my answer is simple: because I recently added a few Apple products to the Design Shop after discovering that Apple have an outlet via Amazon. PLUS Dell products too. Wow!

You can read more about that in the newsletter

Oh, and I tweaked the colour scheme here on the website a little… gotta love this year’s colour.

White FlowerLearning how to write well has been a bit of a priority for a while and this year has seen some gains in that department. I have a much better handle on what to say in a post and how to say it than I did this time last year.

Winning.

White FlowerMy vehicle, aka my classic Toyota TownAce, my Lady Lusso, she has had a bit of a mechanical overhaul this year and I have to give special thanks to the amazing team at Scarboro Toyota for the special care that they gave my vehicle.

Amazing. Thank you! 

The dream to have Lady Lusso restored and repainted is well in hand and my vision of creating a bunch of digiscrap inspired decals to adorn her with is getting closer.

Metallic red with stark white decals and specially sculpted overlays …

My crazy dream for a macro-scrapbooking project on my van is now officially a plan. Stay tuned!

White FlowerChanging topic again: Christmas Day this year was fabulous.

My older son and I had a beautiful picnic lunch overlooking the beach.

We had a lovely gazebo that I bought and glamped up a little with a gorgeously soft picnic rug and some cushions, protected from assorted flying menaces by an almost invisible mesh inner tent.

We had grissini and blue cheese dip garnished with cracked pepper and black truffle, succulent roasted lamb in a garlic rosemary jus with smashed vegetables, and chocolates galore!

It was a stiflingly hot day at over 43°C in the shade and the chocolates all melted into puddles but we had the best time nonetheless.

If we do a picnic lunch like that again it will be on a cooler day and I have plans for more glam to really make it special.

 

In closing, last year my 2021 New Years ownWORD was PROSPER. Despite all the set backs I have endured this year due to health – oh and that global thingy people keep talking about – I have definitely prospered this year. And in more ways than the simple tangible ways that I thought possible this time last year.

Right now I have less than $2 in the bank, a few things in storage, a van with only just a teensy bit more than a whiff of petrol left in the tank and a couple of days of food. So how did I prosper?

A couple of thoughts immediately spring to mind:

Throughout my adult life I have striven to work hard, often with little or no pay. I have done thousands of hours of volunteer work, I have home educated my children, I have worked on my business so that it will support me in the future. I have also striven to do the right thing in my life and in the community, especially recently through my food delivery work during lockdowns (Proverbs 11:11 kinda springs to mind).

All through this time, with either little or no income, there was an almost unconscious thread of jealousy that others are doing better than me financially. This year I conquered that unflattering concern with what others are achieving in their bank accounts.

THAT is attaining true prosperity in community spirit, in charity and in wisdom.

During 2021, I have prospered!

So on the foundations of all the many ways within which I have prospered this year, for next year, 2022, the new year coming … my ownWORD is FLOURISH.

 

The finished Digital Scrapbook Layout, ownWORD 2022, with my focus word for the year ahead: FLOURISH

 

This time next year, again, I plan on posting that I bought a home during the year … I missed that target this year because I was dreadfully ill so many times and unable to work. No work, no pay; no pay, no home deposit.

Next year is my year! I OWN 2022.

How have your holidays been? Did you write a Christmas 2021 Dear Friend letter? Have you chosen an ownWORD for your New Year? What is it? I would dearly love to know; post in the comments.

Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year!

With much love, light and brightest blessings.

Anita

 

PS: Being a van dweller due to difficult circumstances sometimes sucks, but getting to park at the beach every night and breathing the glorious salty air … PRICELESS … … … … that is all.

 

Christmas 2020

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Posting this from deep within the digiscrapping trenches: it has been months since I last posted, obviously, so let me fill you in on the happenings highlights of this year and what is coming next. And so this is the Christmas Message for 2020This post kinda rambles and is kinda meant to be read as an open Dear Friend type letter. Here goes …

 

 

Dear Friend,

As this year winds down, preparing to be reborn tomorrow, I hope that this epistle finds you and yours all in good health, great cheer, and celebrating in the spiritual tradition of your family.

This year, every single day, the biggest and definitely the most important matter that was and still is always on my mind, is my sons.

My eldest is turning 18 in a few months! I can’t believe it! My baby who was 775g at birth is nearly 18, I am so very proud of how much he has achieved, the obstacles that he has conquered, his reserved nature and the gentle strength of his character as he now stands on the brink of manhood … and … my younger son is turning 16 in less than two months! Little munchkin has grown up so much in the last two years, he has such a wonderful creative talent in music and an incredible ability to work with electronics and has such a mind of his own that he just decided to get his ears pierced!

My heart still feels the joys of early motherhood – the wakings in the middle of the night – the joys of watching them taking their first steps.

Two major birthdays coming up so lots to look forward to and lots of celebrating to do in 2021.

I love both of my sons with all my heart.

From the public life side of things:

White FlowerThis year my sketchPLATE offerings were finessed to a high degree: the processes behind them are now fully established and overall I am very happy with the way that each of them is created.

White FlowerThis year, I also discovered that I simply adore podcasting … videos remain on the to-do-list, but I think a make-over is still higher up on that list before I start videoing.

White FlowerIn the middle of the year I submitted two designs to a printing house to check for colour correctness and saturation levels when printed on fabric; the results were even better than I had hoped! The test swatches that came back are really quite good … big plans for 2021.

White FlowerHowever, this year also saw the website here deal with numerous threats, a hacked plugin and a full blown bot attack continually crashing the server, culminating in late-October when a DDOS attacked open a vulnerability and took my site offline.

It wasn’t until mid-November that things finally calmed down and I was able to recover data, although the very last post that I posted still needs to be recovered … on the to-do-list.

The upside of that whole fiasco is that my backup system works, I found the best way of securing backups and my recovery system is also in place.

White FlowerDuring the last few months I was also actively searching for a new vehicle.

Then suddenly, in late-November, after months of not much success, finally I secured a classic Toyota TownAce … my Lady Lusso.

She is 23 years young and needs a lil bit of tender loving care to finish converting her into my home away from home on wheels.

So now I am kinda stuck between my old car which is broken down and the new van which is not yet fully fitted out … needing to sell my old car ASAP to finish off my new van.

Please, dear gods of the internet, please, show the perfect buyer my beautiful Desert Lady so that they can live long, prosper, and go on many 4WD adventures together.

White FlowerBe that as it may, I have the driving end of my van completely finished off with new carpet, seat covers and freshly detail cleaned trims.

However, the  cargo bay section needs a lot of work to get it finished but at least for now it has been made water tight: there were 22 holes in the floor! 22 of them! My head is still spinning from using the clear silicon sealant gel on that many holes in the floor.

I have also bought the underlay, reflective heat shielding and wooden battens ready for when I can scrape together my pennies to purchase the wooden paneling … REALLY looking forward to when that job is finally done…

Anyone wanting to help by making a donation of eight (8) sheets of 1200 x 396 x 7mm plyboard?

The exterior of my van just needs a couple of minor repairs to scratches and stains.

My ultimate dream is to have Lady Lusso resprayed and create a bunch of digiscrap inspired decals to adorn her with …. I had a crazy dream about 15 years ago of using the exterior of my car as the canvas for a macro-scrapbooking project.

My day is now at hand!

In closing, last year my 2020 New Years ***One Little Word® ownWORD was BUILD … I have certainly built this year.

Built a lot of business processes and this website from a blank canvas WordPress into what you now see here.

I have also built resilience, built compassion, built empathy and understanding, built relationships and rebuilt the connection with my sons, conquered fear and anger on more occasions than I can even remember, rebuilt trust with myself, built knowledge, built wisdom, built honour, built character, built my bank account so that I could buy my van to build-out and then actually started building-out my van, built dreams, built designs, built a store, built a social media presence, built a business.

So on the foundations of all that I have built this year, for next year, 2021, the new year coming … my ownWORD is PROSPER.

 

A simple digital scrapbook layout with a single focus word.

 

This time next year, I plan on posting that I bought a home in 2021.

Do you have an intention for next year? What is it? I would dearly love to know. Hit reply below to share.

Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

With much love, light and brightest blessings.

Anita

 

PS: You may have noticed that I didn’t mention one very particular topic of worldwide interest … … … … that is all.

 

*** In order to clearly feel and focus on my personal New Year mission, because I intend to OWN each and every year ahead, I will be using my specially selected ownWORD in future years.

Thank you.