Hi All
 
Hope you achieved great Christmas Spirit …and if not …don’t worry …you get another chance next year! Ek was behoorlik bederf! Got lovely loot …like handmade Christmas Friendship Calendar from Asjas (and a bottle of Issey Miyake!!), Wooden Rolling Pin from mom, Celic pewter bangle from Lisa, GHD from Tami, soy wax candle from beautiful ladies at Placecol and DNB,  homemade biscuits from Snippie Forsythe,  a drawing of the ocean from Ben, and pictures Seb made showing Mount Olympus, Hades, and Zeus’ temple!!!
 Am without my boys for the New …

Hello !
Many thanks to Benita for your blog entry – am extremely touched by your words and inspired by your courage. Aan Annette en Roenel – julle is inderdaad ook fenominale, brawe vrouens! Om jou lewens- en werkspad te verander omdat jy jou passie raaksien, is baie cool!  En aan Ilse, baie dankie dat jy net honderd persent jouself is!  It was Sebastian’s birthday yesterday – 8 years old! I can’t believe this gorgeous kid! He comes up to almost my shoulders already. My sis is visiting from Scotland – …

I went to an art exhibition the other day. My friend has just taken up art classes and she says it is the best therapy …..the tension of her world dissipates when she is concentrating on her painting. She asked me to go to the exhibition cos she had painted a huge oil portrait of my picture from the cover of ‘Bittersweet / Bittersoet’. No sooner had we walked in through the door, when Ben pointed at the canvas and said loudly ‘LOOK MOM, IT’S YOU!’. Testimony, I think , …

Hint #12
DON’T PROCRASTINATE
 
Are you going around in circles? Are you stuck because you don’t want to make a decision? Or take up action? There’s a Spanish proverb that says something along the lines of ‘ Start the day by eating a frog’. What it basically means is that you should start the day by doing something that you are not looking forward to. Get it out of the way. Stop procrastinating. And the rest of your day will feel more free.  Take care of the little things in life before …