A fresh start, a clean slate…my beginning.

"Anything is possible"…..I have been an eternal optimist {mostly}

 throughout my life, so I always love the seemingly new beginning

that the start of the new year brings.  

I know it doesn't make sense, pick a

random day in a month and it could be YOUR new 

beginning but a fresh start but for me is officially on the biggies - new years,

the day my kids go back to school after summer vacation or

even at the first signs of spring.  They are my personal trimesters.

I'm pretty sure that where I am in life 

with my children and family determines

 my beginnings and endings. And I'm going with it…….

and holding on for dear life to the surge of optimism, energy

and hopeful feelings that 'anything is possible'.

I happily make lists and plans and goals….

I strategize and plot and make more lists, 

I organize and purge……..

 and with way more giddiness than 

I probably should admit to, 

I happily cross off items on my lists

……..anything is possible!

The first place that feels my energy is usually my home - after

all the Christmas decor is put away I go into

super re-arrange mode and this year was no different.  

My mantle was cleared and restyled with some favorites - I 

know it's a little weird to have a mirror with hooks on

it but I had it in the closet and I like the light a mirror

reflects during these darker Pacific Northwest winters.

The large antlers are from an elk and found by my

brother near his home in Colorado - he brought

them to me at Thanksgiving.  The vintage brass candle

sticks have been collected over the years - mostly found

at thrift stores for less that $8 a piece.  I break my

"no faux plants" design rule for these crazy 

cool faux boxwood-like orbs - what can I say, I 

am a plant killer and crave greens in the winter.

Here's wishing you all fresh starts in 2014!