Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Yes, I realize I'm an entire week late. Better late than never, I say.  I hope you all ushered in 2017 in grand style and are ready for what stretches ahead - new goals, resolutions, projects and plans - whatever makes you excited for the new year. I wish each and every one of you a new year full of good health and happiness, peace and hope, success and prosperity.



The future lies before you
like a field of fallen snow,
Be careful how you tread on it
for every step will show.

We seem to be in "delayed mode" here lately... Our Christmas Day was very quiet and low key, with only Mark here with us and the kitties, but things ramped up a few days later when the rest of the gang arrived, Ian with 3 year old Claire, Laura with 5 month old Noah, and Mark's girlfriend Maggie. So that's why I've been absent from blogland, I've been enjoying time with my family, and a wonderful time it was! We ate too much turkey and other goodies, played with new toys and read new books, laughed at kids' and kitties' antics, and simply enjoyed time together and the many friends and family who stopped by. Mark, Laura and Noah left just a few days ago on the same flight and since then I've been putting away all things Christmas, and trying to get the house back in order. I'm nearly done and am looking forward to some quality studio time and that stack of books that's awaiting my attention. The leftovers are gone, but there's lots of turkey soup in the freezer. I do love homemade soup on a cold winter night.

I still have many photos to edit from the last few weeks, meanwhile here's a few that I can share. Mark and Maggie are showing off their new aprons. (Finding suitable fabric for a young man's apron is not easy... since they both like wine I ended up with wine corks for Mark and grapes for Maggie whose favourite colour is purple.) Claire liked her new aprons, and we had fun making the reindeer snacks (notice she is not wearing
her apron, telling me "No, it's for Daddy's house!")













Peace,
Linda

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been." ~Rainer Maria Rilke