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Happy new year to all my friends, readers, students and customers; to those who just stop in from time to time, to those who visit every day, to those who support me in so many different ways. If I don’t say it often enough I’m truly thankful and grateful that you’re here.

I hope you’ll join me as we take this marking of time, the upcoming first day of a brand new year, and use it as an opportunity to start afresh with a brand new blank page and begin writing our story for this year; a story that’s inspiring, creative and meaningful. And of course one that includes lots of cloth and thread.

I’m excited about this new year and I hope you are too.

We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Beginning where you are
I love the sentiment of that quotation, however as I mentioned in an article I wrote the other day – you can read it here – that although the beginning of a new year is a wonderful time to begin writing your story, you can do it at any time. I got so many lovely emails about the article, and about that particular paragraph, that I made you a downloadable card – a new year’s gift – just so you can remember that you can begin writing your story at any time.

Click here, and the image will open in a new browser page then you can “right click” and save to your desktop (or whatever you do on a mac – sorry, not mac savvy). Print it out, stick it somewhere where you can see it regularly, and enjoy.

Other ways to help you on your new year’s journey

Have you given vision to your year ahead by choosing a word yet?
Using a word is such a gentle and powerful way to carry you through the year because there are no hard and fast resolutions and no “shoulds” or “shouldn’ts”. A word guides with vision and flexibility. Because I believe so strongly in the power of using a word, I even made it easy for you to choose your own word by putting together a free One Word Selection Guide. You can find the download link to the guide here in this article.

Are you organized?
During 2011 I got SO much done and I achieved goals I never thought I would. One of the reasons was because I found a way to plan and use my time effectively (I have exactly the same amount of time as each and every one of you) so for 2012 I designed myself a set of “Vision Your Year” downloadable Day Planner pages in a format just the way I like to use them. If you’re looking for a way to help manage your time you can read the article here and you can find the planners here in the store all ready to download.

And finally – are you ready for some inspiration, education and motivation?
I’ve got a solution for that also!

Although you’ll be able to sign up any time during the year, do you really want to miss out on day one? (I’m so excited, only a couple more sleeps!) Make the decision to stay creatively motivated all year long by becoming a member of The Creative Explorer’s Club – a club like no other and one I designed just for you that will inspire you with small tidbits every day, motivate you with articles, challenges and projects each week, and educate you with artful tutorials every month. You’ll find all the details here.

And finally, during 2012 you can find me right here on the blog
Maybe with a slightly different focus – but always creative with cloth and thread.

I hope each of you enjoys a fabulous beginning to a brand new year!

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