I found Leonie’s guide through the Creative Everyday site, and because I am attracted to anything colorful and workbooky and instantly available, I had to grab it.

I’ve spent the last couple of days working through it, and it has really helped me to appreciate everything I accomplished in 2009.

This year the holidays had me feeling so down and so blue, and I was so over-focused on everything that I was going to change in 2010, that I FORGOT just how AMAZING I WAS in 2009.

The most important thing, of course was that I finally got out of debt.  It was something that I’d wished for since 1999, and finally started working toward in 2007.  Two and a half years it took me.  But I did it.  And now I’M FREEEEEEEEE!!

I started painting my own paintings in 2009.  I bought an awesomely fancy bicycle with cash in 2009.  I finished my little body book, finished my web site, got to go to Art Unraveled AND Art and Soul.  And I discovered that I’m really more of a single media kind of girl.

2009 WAS AWESOME!  May I be just as AWESOME in 2010! YAY!!!

My dreams for 2010 look like this:

1. A circle of like minded arty girls to play with
2. MORE PAINTING
3. Going on the Wild Heart Painting retreat in New Mexico, and spending a week doing yoga in Mexico next Christmas.
4. Finding a fabulous little house to rent where I can ride my bike to work everyday, have a happy little art room, and NO LOUD DRUNKEN neighbors.

Lessons learned