HAPPY LAST DAY OF 2019! And last day of the DECADE to boot!
Wow has so much changed for me in the past year ~ in great ways! I started the year so excited to create a bright happy life for myself, and am ending it even more positive about everything! The middle was stuffed with great stuff too. Here’s some of what I accomplished!
One year ago! Started off dressed like a rainbow. I dressed colourfully every single day and had random strangers tell them my outfits made them happy 😀 My sweet kitty Sugar celebrate her first birthday and we celebrated with a big bash! She doesn’t look thrilled here, but she was spoiled with attention so she wasn’t complaining!Spent a big chunk of the year knitting, felting, and learning new things! I ran out of time so I didn’t get to create quite as much as I hoped.Built and painted an adorable dollhouse from a kit! Still needs to be decorated on the inside, but that’s a 2020 project!Ran and finished my first FULL MARATHON! A lot of my year was spent training and well making up the burned calories lol.Bought my first Blythe dolls ~ a longtime dream!!Baked for nearly a month straight for Christmas! This was my first go at decorating sugar cookies so a bit wobbly, but still adorable 😀Made my pink house PINKER and cozier!Most importantly, I had a ridiculous amount of FUN!!
And so much more! Hard to believe it has been 365 days! I really just want 2020 to be very similar – just happy, colourful, and creative! I think we can do it!
LET’S GO!!! Lots of love and best of luck to you all in 2020!! xoxo
Apologies for the VERY delayed post – ack it’s the middle of… JUNE?! Here’s what I was up to in May!
I’ve been running like a mad woman – literally! I had a half marathon in early May and finished in a wicked personal best time (1:49)! Running has been most of my life actually! It’s been run, eat, sleep, repeat all in preparation for my full marathon *gasp* tomorrow?!?!?!
Sugar modelling my medal (and sweaty gear ;)) from my half!
It’s actually spring out now (we even had a few days well above THIRTY celsius!) so I’ve been spending a lot of time outside staring at the lovely cherry blossoms!
Started working on construction on my first dollhouse, which I’ve been spending weeks sanding, construction, priming, painting… making an entire mess of my room and have been loving it! I really missed being creative and coating everything in PINK!
I also got inspired to finally get back to working on decorating my actual house!
After a few years, I finally got CURTAINS! My big dollhouse finally looks like a real dollhouse now! Which that cat has not destroyed yet (even I’m SHOCKED)!
Game of Thrones is actually DONE! Ahh! It’s been so long since I’ve been invested in a show like that (like so many people!) No spoilers here, but I really liked how it ended.
I started watching The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to fill in the gap! Definitely NOT the same genre, but it was time for something hilarious.
After years and years of hmming and hawing, I bought my very first Takara Neo Blythe doll (I’m planning a proper post soon… but I’m just beaming!)
And saw lots and lots of rainbows!
This was at 6 am on what seemed like a super glum day! The universe always knows what you need 🙂
Hope to be a bit more active here on the blogosphere once running is done! I feel the creative bug biting again and need to put all that spare time to use! 😀
Can you believe April has already come and gone?! This month whizzed by even quicker than March and I can’t believe I’ve barely posted a thing. Wasn’t my intention to let this month run away from me, but I was on so many adventures I hardly had a second to sit down. Suppose I should do a nice catch-up and some monthly snaps here!
Hoppy Easter to all those who celebrated! If not, hope you at least got lots of cheap chocolate~ I sure did!
Spring means out with the dark everything, and in with the pastels and rainbows. They are EVERYWHERE and I LOVE it!
Enjoyed a lovely day off of work!
Spent lots of time with family!
Ate a ton of good food 🙂
My lovely cousin got engaged
And two of my high school friends found out they are having BABIES!
I celebrated one full year with my cat! Loving every second of cat mom-hood!
To celebrate, I bought a cat camera. Now I spend half my day at work watching her (shh!) – it was this one here from Amazon! I definitely do recommend it.
It was Administrative Professionals Day at work so my bosses got my a very nice vase of fancy flowers and took me out for lunch!
Got a pretty significant raise at work as well!
So splurged on a Nintendo Switch, which has been a blast!
Also planning to do some more renovating on my little home! Needs some more PINK! 😉
Baked about 12 dozen cookies this month. Probably ate about that many too 😀
Have been running non-stop!
Less than a week until my half marathon now (not super pumped that it’s going to be basically winter running though :O)!
Have run further away than ever before which makes for excellent adventures.
Ventured by an old mill a couple of kilometers away and it was scenic as heck.
Made some new running friends and reconnected with an old high school friend who is also into running!
Although the continued winter has some benefit. I’ve been enjoying being cooped up a little bit and spent ALL of last weekend playing The Sims. Nothing better than carefree days spent mindlessly laughing at the antics of little screen people!
New season of Game of Thrones! *gasps darkly and full of terror*
Been binge watching the Disney classics as well!
I’m finding Disney so visually inspiring. Been doing some ~casual cosplay~ of the Princesses which is mega fun
Found a whole new world (see what I did there…) of things to collect as well!
It is apparently warming up! There was one whole day that went all the way up to 19 degrees celsius!
Snow is GONE and grass is actually green
Got the patio setup on my balcony
Actually had a chance to sit on the patio one day so far so that was nice
Almost time to break out the summery dresses!
Quite excited for all of the fun warm cheery adventures to come!
Made a batch of springy rainbow chocolate chip cookies!This was the beginning of April!Then a couple of days ago!Cat cam! Can you see me 😉
Wow can you believe it’s the END OF MARCH?! This month really has just zipped by. Going to try a new blog feature ~ a happy wonderful thing that happened for each and every day of the month!
It’s officially SPRING!
Warm weather is here
Days are getting looooong and bright!
Snow is (almost) no longer here!
Finally got a crown on my chipped tooth and it looks AMAZING
Spent a lot of time just relaxing with family!
Took a couple of days off of work
…and didn’t even feel bad about it!
Started training to run the full marathon (takes place in June)!
Ran 21.1 kilometers (a whole half marathon) this morning and it felt great.
I’ve been spotting a bunch of deer and geese on my runs! Definitely missed seeing these guys!
Enjoying exploring new places with just my feet!
Started drinking far more water (still need to cut the Diet Coke a bit!)
I spent New Years Eve enjoying a bunch of leftover Christmas treats, making a quick colourful 2019 headband, and chasing after my cat who kept stealing the pompoms!
My headband! Full of my favourite materials: glitter, stickers, pompoms (also Sugar’s favourite!), and rhinestones!
I had so much fun, but ended up falling asleep at 9 – oops!!! I was trying to stay up, and I was even going to set an alarm just in case I fell asleep but then fell asleep before I could do THAT! Hahaha!
I ended up watching fireworks this morning (on Youtube ;))!
My one big goal for this year is to CREATE EVERY SINGLE DAY! Even if it’s just a little bit of something. I dream of having a magical house full to the brim with colour, fabrics, knitted things, craft projects, and the constant smell of fresh baked goodies ~ my own enchanted little paradise!! And then post my creations every day (or so) here on this blog! I hope this challenge will allow me to be productive and constantly learn new skills!
I also just want to be HAPPY this year, fight through my anxiety, be healthy, and as bright and unique as can possibly be!
The first sunrise of 2019! The colours were already cooperating with me!!
2018 was my absolutely best year ever, and 2019 is guaranteed to be EVEN BETTER! Can’t wait to enjoy it with you all! xoxo
