{ 2014 }

2014 was a pretty amazing year for me, full of adventures & new experiences. There's no way I could ever write about everything that happened, so here's a selection of the highlights...

Without a doubt, the biggest thing that happened during 2014 was my Europe adventure - four countries, seven cites, train rides, castles, five weeks on my own & I have so many photos to share...& as if that wasn't enough travelling, my sisters & I headed off on a road-trip, seeing a bit of our own country...the year did start with a bit of a scare, and then plenty of rain...we welcomed a new addition to the family, followed along as one brother visited Japan & another went to Bali...I did plenty of jewellery making - fine silver, polymer, copper clay - lots of new pieces created, continued attending the Wirrabara Producers Market & started at the Flinders Street Market...visited &/or re-visited some beautiful local places, started playing on instagram...& finished the year with a fun family Christmas trip, including Holly's first visit to the beach...

 1.  Paris  \\ 2. clouds of spring pink  \\ 3. let it rain  \\ 4. afternoon sun-lit portraits  \\ 5. twelve apostles  \\ 6. morning light  \\ 7. Schloss Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangu  \\ 8. sunflare.

sentenced | january

I first fell for the cute spotty cover & then was intrigued by the idea - one sentence per day (with a prompt) for the year & the next two as well - & so far I'm having fun with my 'A Sentence A Day' book. And obviously I had to get a cute pen to go with it (I've mentioned my love of pretty stationery before, right?).

The prompts are fun & sometimes a little hard to answer, but I'm trying to just stick with whatever I think of first. I can have a tendency to worry about getting stuff 'right', but I remind myself that this is supposed to be fun & there is no 'right' answer anyway. It will be interesting to come back in a year & see what I have to write about then...

the prompts shown are 'what was the last song you listened to?', 'what is the colour of the day today?', 'what do you love about this season?', 'name three things you're grateful for' & 'when did you wake up this morning?'

{ 2014 } | explore

a new year - the perfect time for new plans & possibilities.

Part of my planning for the year ahead consisted of completing Susannah Conway's "Unravelling the Year Ahead" workbook (as I did last year) & choosing a word to be part of my year.

It took a fair while to find the right word, but in the end the one that clicked was explore.

Last year's word was grow & in some ways explore feels like a logical extension of that - similar in a number of ways, but, I don't know, braver somehow.

So here's to new journeys, new adventures, new discoveries - to far away places & those close to home. To being open to all the opportunities to explore this life & being brave enough to reach for them.

the beginning of something beautiful...

a new year, full of promise, potential & possibility.

I hope your 2014 is full of light, joy, people you love, new experiences, bold dreams, quiet moments & plenty of laughter. Because the best (& scariest) bit is that anything can happen...

Happy New Year!