Hello lovers.
Oh I have missed you so.
I hope you all had a wonderful New Years & that 2012 is going fantastically for everyone thus far. Mine has been just lovely, as expected. Last year I sparkled & shined just as I promised myself, & this year…well I’m going to do the very same thing. Really though, did you expect any less? I got it tattooed on myself for christs’ sake, I’m not going to go changing my mantra anytime soon!

As my loveliest long term readers know, I pick a song at the beginning of each year. Normally a song I already love, but seems to have substantial meaning to me at this particular time. I write an important verse from said song in the front of my journal, & I know that anytime things aren’t going amazingly (because we always have highs & lows, regardless of how much we sparkle & shine & twinkle & glitter) I can look at those lyrics, or skip to that song on my ipod, & just know that everything is beautiful & everything will be just fine.

This year, I’ve picked an old favourite, “re:Stacks” by Bon Iver. This song has always had a lot of meaning to me, but right now, the last verse in particular -
“This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization,
It’s the sound of the unlocking and the lift away.
Your love will be,
Safe with me..”
& of course, the title line of this post, “Everything that happens from now on..”
This year is bringing a lot of change. Though I sometimes feels it’s not at all possible to go through much more change considering this past year- Absolutely every facet of my life seems to be the complete opposite of this time last year, in the best way possible. The only thing that has stayed the same is myself! I’m so excited for what the future will bring, for every aspect of my life.
One change that will be happening very soon is I’m cutting back to working 4 days a week at work. I’ve never *not* worked full time before, so it feels very odd, but I’m so excited! I won’t be working Fridays anymore (I KNOW RIGHT, LONG WEEKEND EVERY WEEKEND!) & I plan to make good use of my extra time. I have some super exciting business plans on the horizon, which I will be sharing with you very soon, so I’ll primarily be working on that, but also, making a lot more time for myself. I have always said how disappointing it is that I never seem to have the time for my creativity anymore, so I am MASSIVELY excited to have an extra day a week dedicated to crafting & baking! Just for the fun of it. I hate that I only seem to find the time when it’s obligatory creativeness, & I really don’t want to lose the joy out of it due to that.

So with any luck, very soon I’ll have a lot more crafty bits & baked goods to share with you all again, & I can get back to my ridiculous lickmycupcakes roots! I also plan to continue taking a GAZILLION photos & spamming the crap out of everyone on instagram, & taking “real” photos as well of course. I plan to do a lot of adventuring this year, so the photography goes hand in hand! At the end of this month myself & my Batman are heading to New Zealand to explore, I absolutely can’t wait! I love travelling, especially to new places, & we have so many other great trips to plan for in our future.

Some things of course, will stay the same. I’ll keep wearing ridiculously fun clothes. Fluffy skirts, boots & silly dresses for the win!

I’ll hopefully start sewing my own, which I’ve been wanting to do for a million years (yes, I am that old, shut up.) now that I will have the time. I made this one- which I adore! It is absolutely horrendous on the inside, because I completely winged it, didn’t use a pattern, didn’t even hem it properly, but it works for me! AND YOU GUYS IT’S GOT SPACE KIDS & DOGS IN ROCKETS ON IT.

I’ll make sure I keep up my little pamper nights, even moreso now that I have my Fridays to myself. It’s fantastic therapy for the soul to hop in a bubble bath with some music on, a facemask & some lovely body scrub. I do my best bouts of thinking in the bath.

And of course, I’ll continue hanging out with the best friends a gal could have, as much as humanly possible. These guys were my light through the worst possible time, & they made the last year so, so fun, & so, so great.

And finally, I’ll continue enjoying every day & seeing where this guy leads me. For absolutely ever & a day.

