Welcome to the Roaring Twenties

Happy New Year everyone - I hope that 2020, a whole new decade, is filled with health and happiness, love and laughter for us all.

 

Nigel and I managed to keep our eyes open until midnight, knowing the fireworks would wake us anyway. We stood and watched them at the window ... the benefit of being high up is that we see a lot of fireworks.

New Year's Day we have a set tradition, which we kept to. Up early, Christmas packed away and the house spring cleaned. It feels good to have it all neat and tidy again, though as we have not fully recovered we were both shattered to be honest.

There has been a cybercrop at FTLOPP to celebrate their 5th birthday and there were 18 challenges to complete over the space of 5 days. I have managed 13 so far and hope to complete the rest.

I did do a total up of the pages I made in 2019 and it was just over 700 of which probably 300ish were digital. Yes I do scrap a lot and no I don't do much else! Well apart from paint, read, go the cinema, go for walks and picnics. I reckon I used to do at least 350 when I worked full time ... I am just a fast scrapper (aka have little patience and just want to get it done)

 

Here are a couple of new pages. This is a digital page using A Fresh Start by Bellisae Designs

 

 

 

This is one for the cyber crop - a visit to the Roundabout Diner on our first morning again.

 

And this was a cute polar bear waking from his nap time at San Diego Zoo.

 

 

And finally a challenge using twine which I used round the frame and the page border and it was a devil to stick!

 

 

I don't make New Year resolutions but I do have a lot of goals/bucket list things I want to achieve this year as it is a big birthday year from me. I will become officially old enough to retire!

 

I also have a word for the year - FAITH

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• a wonderful past decade
• new opportunities, challenges and the right person by my side to approach them

And as I am still sniffling this made me giggle

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Barb in AK]

Hahahaha! Love the Queen rendition of the cold. :-D
Great word for 2020--faith.
I told Steve about your 700-page accomplishment. He was
quite flabbergasted, as was I. I know you are a fast scrapper,
and I am ashamed of myself. I figure I got 0.04% of your total.
:-D :-D :-D Oh well, we do what we can, right?
It does seem as though the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
New Year holidays tend to call for another deep-clean of the
house once they pass. Isn't it nice to feel as though we can do
that without stress now that we are retired? :-)