{"id":6891,"date":"2010-01-06T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:58:40","slug":"reflections-on-past-and-future-and-a-sneak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/reflections-on-past-and-future-and-a-sneak\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on past and future
(and a sneak!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, a lot of resolutions and “words of the year” popped up
\non a lot of\u00a0blogs, and that got me wondering…
\nShould I make resolutions?
\nShould I pick a word of the year?
\nWill it help me focus?<\/p>\n

You sure got me thinking and reflecting girls!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

The past year was my first year of blogging (I started November 2008)
\nand I\u00a0look back on it with a smile.<\/p>\n

Since a few years, “black clouds seems to circle my house” (as Glenda puts it\u00a0–
\nthanks for those words, it’s hard for me to find the right way to describe
\nthings sometimes, and when I read this, I go “Yeah, that’s the way to say it”!)
\nAnyway, that was one of the reasons I started blogging…
\nI wanted to do something “nice” to get my mind off of the problems and find
\nsome happiness and joy. I never thought I’d find it in such HUGE way!
\nI grew taller, I became more confident, I made a lot of friends, I learned that
\ncreating is an outlet that fits me best and I SMILED more.<\/p>\n

And now that a new year has started, with new opportunities
\n(I come back to that later… you didn’t forget about my workshop did ya?)
\nand adventures, I decided that – more than anything else – this is important.<\/p>\n

SMILE!<\/h3>\n

So call it a word, call it a resolution, call it anything you want but this is what
\nI want to do more in 2010:\u00a0live my life with more light and sunshine, colour
\nand fun and smiles (and who knows, even laughter!)<\/span>
\n<\/em>I don’t want to have grey thoughts about everything anymore, especially when
\nit comes to things I can’t change anyway.
\nI want to look at the bright things in life and approach people with more trust.<\/p>\n

YOU, ONLINE FRIENDS, made me stronger last year, so THANK YOU!!!
\nI’m looking forward to spend 2010 with you all again: creating, learning,
\nlaughing, enjoying ourselves and support and help each other when we
\nare down and out….<\/p>\n

OK, and that’s enough for “deep thoughts”
\nOn to the future…<\/p>\n

… MY ONLINE WORKSHOP “LET IT LOOSE”
\n(by the way, did you notice the name I gave it?\u00a0
\nI must have foreseen my feelings for 2010!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n“Let it Loose”\u00a0starts
\nin a few weeks already
\n– time flies –
\nand I\u00a0thought\u00a0I’d\u00a0treat you
\nwith another sneak peek.<\/p>\n

Colours, see those
\nCOLOURS???!!!
\nWe definitely are going
\nto play with colours!<\/p>\n

(By the way:
\nOn my site – in the\u00a0
\n“public gallery” –
\nyou can view more
\nsneak peeks of
\nthis workshop.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Registration is still open if you’re interested.
\nYou can find\u00a0all the information on my site Marit’s Scrapworld<\/a><\/p>\n

And this is it for today.
\n(No, wait\u00a0– one other thing: I won the December challenge
\nat Scrap {a} Tale<\/a> Yeah!)
\nBut no new layouts to show you this time… sorry.
\nMaybe next Friday, when I will be here picking up the
\n“freewheeling Fridays” again. See you then.<\/p>\n

(And have a save week with all that snow and ice –
\nit seems to be snowing all over the world…)<\/p>\n

Je t’embrasse<\/p>\n

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Last week, a lot of resolutions and “words of the year” popped up on a lot of\u00a0blogs, and that got me wondering… Should I make resolutions? Should I pick a word of the year? Will it help me focus? You sure got me thinking and reflecting girls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,220],"tags":[123,221,736],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-workshops","tag-resolutions","tag-sneak-peek","tag-workshops","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}