A New Year ahead... And the flu...

I'm really looking forward to 2011 and want to take this opportunity to wish all and sundry the best year ever!! Christmas Day here was fabulous and Father Christmas bought me everything I could have wished for. However after that things went rapidly downhill. I started to cough that evening and within 24 hrs it was clear that I was in for a rough few days. That few days turned into over a week and I'm still not fit enough to go back to work. I'd mind that less if I was fit enough to do anything very much in the sewing room, but I'm not even really up to that either. I think I may have had flu - although it may have been some form of viral thing. Either way no sewing or creating has happened and I'm now getting very frustrated. So today I have promised myself that I'll spend at least half an hour pottering in the sewing room.

My sewing room is a bit like a man's shed I guess. It's a space that's mine that I can be frantically busy in or sit and do nothing much at all. It can be quiet or I can have music on. The dogs can join me if I want company or not if I don't. It keeps me sane when things around are crazy. I think everyone should have a shed or a sewing room. Maybe it would even reduce anger, stress and crime? I am, as you probably have guessed from the last comment, the eternal optimist. Although on the stress front the elder sister tells me that knitting has been proven to reduce stress. I'm not convinced having tried it this week for the first time in about 20 years. Boucle wool and a far from easy pattern probably wasn't the best choice to start with!! I do think though that being creative does help to calm the mind, even when it doesn't go quite according to plan and maybe those are the best times. I love the look and feel of the fabrics and the excitement of not being exactly sure how things will turn out and in 2011 I'm planning on having a lot of things turning out differently... Life is after all for living, and if the now moments are well lived, the memories will be worth looking back on and the future will be something to look forward to..

Here's to 2011....