Inspiration for a joyful and creative life

You know how there are always lists of the best movies, books, highlights, and best events of the year?  How about creating your own best of list for the year?

I remember Jill Badonsky, from my Kaizen Muse coaching training telling us that she does this as a ritual every year and I think it’s a great idea.

Why create your best of year in review list?

There are many good reasons for creating your own best of the year list.

Focusing on what you liked and what went well is always a good practice.

It helps you to remember the year as a snapshot and can be fun to look back to see what happened.

You can choose to create more of what you want by paying attention to what matters to you.

Ideas for your own list

Here are some ideas of what you might want on your list:

And the winner is……………

• Favorite Movies
• Favorite Books
• Best Moments of the Year
• Best Days of the Year
• Best Simple Pleasures
• Special Events or Celebrations
• Funniest Moment
• Favorite Music
• Favorite Activities
• Best Thing You Learned About Yourself
• Best Place You Visited

What else would you include on your best of the year list?

Image courtesy graphicsfairy.blogspot.com

Is it time for you to send out Thank You cards?  Or you may need some nice graphics for your blog or other projects.

This lovely image wishing you a Happy New Year is part of several free vintage graphics available at Graphics Fairy.

She has several images for every holiday as well as botanical drawings, labels, blog headers and backgrounds.

It is a great source for some interesting clip art.  What will you create this year?

photo by Jessica Jones HowAboutOrangeBlogspot

Jessica Jones from HowAboutOrange Blog has another great tutorial on how to make these paper snowflakes.

Remember cutting out paper snowflakes when you were a kid?

These will be as fun but they are so pretty and sophisticated, think of all the ways you could use them.

• You could use them as tree ornaments.
• You could put them on a package as a lovely gift wrap.  Jessica shows a brown paper package topped with one of these beautiful orange snowflakes.
• Hang some snowflakes from your chandelier.
• Put some on fishing line or monofilament thread to dangle from the ceiling.
• Add them to a wreath or place them in a garland around your stair rails.
• Or make a beautiful garland like the one pictured here

You may want to run and get your scissors right now.  Oops….I forgot.  No running with scissors.