The last door - Same procedure as every year?

It's New Year's Eve. Time for fireworks, champagne, resolutions, party, dancing .... or sleep.
Yes, it's true. The last years I celebrated New Year's Eve when I felt like it. Or I didn't. I went to bed early or I stayed up and read, played a game, watched a DVD while crocheting. Or once I tried to find the way home through the thickest fog I have ever seen in our town.

Am I a spoilsport? I don't think so.
What my plans for tonight are, you are asking? I'm pretty sure I will watch "Dinner for One" at least once, it's a New Year's Eve tradition. After that - time will tell, I don't know yet.


What I do know, though, is that I wish you a great day. Party into the night, dance, sing, but please take care of yourself (and your pets, should you have them!!).

And now let's get ready for a hopefully grand New Year!

The thirtieth door - the year is drawing to an end

So 2010 is coming to an end and I want to say Goodbye with a big Year's End Sale in all my shops.

No matter if you look on ArtFire, Zibbet or DaWanda, you'll get 20 % off on all items.

I hope to see you over in 2011! ;-)

The twenty-ninth door

My head feels like a cave. It's very quiet, all you hear from is the drip drip sound from one of the stalactites, in my case probably the sound of brain cells falling.

It's vacation time and it's relaxing, maybe almost a little too relaxing. Outside it's snowing again, so I don't have the urge to go out there.

I got a few new DVDs for Christmas and bought myself some books.

Some sort of  half-hibernation sounds really good at the moment ;-)

The twenty-eighth door

Only three more days, then it will be New Year's Eve.

You can never start early enough on your resolutions for the new year. If you are still game to make any, that is. I pretty much gave up on them.

 

It feels like a diet that starts tomorrow or on Monday - or in the new year. I will set up goals for my business, I will save money, I will lose weight, I will eat healthier, I will answer all my e-mails on the same day, I will get up with a smile in the mornings ... and maybe I'll save the world.

Well, I will try to go one step at a time. And if it doesn't work out, I won't beat myself up about it. If I stumble, I'll get up again.

This is all I can, want and will promise. After all we are all human.

The twenty-seventh door

Wikipedia says:

"Ice may be any one of the 15 known crystalline phases of water. Usually ice is the phase known as ice I_h, which is the most abundant of these solid phases on the Earth's surface. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities or air inclusions. The addition of other materials such as soil may further alter the appearance."

Ooookay.

I say: Ice is beautiful and I am totally fascinated.

Nuff said.

The twenty-sixth door - quote of the week

Christmas would not be the same without this one half hour of Peanuts. I have the video cassette and I have held on to it for many years now.

The story of Charlie Brown and his sad little tree ... Linus telling the Christmas story ... the group singing together in the end ... *happy sigh*


As my favorite quote I'll choose the one that fits best these days:
"Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"

A Charlie Brown Christmas, USA, 1965

The twenty-fifth door - White Christmas

When I was a child, I got a book called "Christmas stories of our time". The editor wrote in her foreword that she challenged her fellow authors to write about Christmas and the result was a collection of happy, sad and thoughtful stories.

My favorite story that I shared with many others over the year is the one of the Christmas elf. He has to fulfil three tasks to make Christmas a white one.

This year the Christmas elf and his friend, the unicorn, seem to have done very well. They have found the nine bullfinches on a branch, they rung the bells of the abandoned church in the Five Lords Ground and they led Jack Frost back home to the Yew Forest.

And now we have loads of snow out there again ...