Wow…it’s hard to believe that we are standing on the cusp of 2012! I’m excited about the new year, thinking about what sort of changes I’d like to make. It’s a time for new things; I can feel it in the air. I’m ready to learn Spanish, work on my writing, read the classics, rejoin the gym and rediscover the body I used to have (I know it’s still in there somewhere!), buy a bicycle and just HAVE MORE FUN.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce said, “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.” What are you going to write in your book this year?
I wish for my readers a year of trying new things. Learn a new language or pick up a new hobby. Write poetry or start journaling. Paint with acrylics, cook with cardamon, discover a new author. Keep growing, keep changing. Eleanor Roosevelt said it best, “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” Here’s to an interesting year!
As for myself, I’m closing some doors so I can open some new ones. This will be my last blog post for a while…Thrifty Girl Vintage needs a break! I’ve enjoyed this year and learned so much from blogging. It’s given me confidence, new computer skills and the ability to mix and match my wardrobe to the nth degree!
It’s also given me wonderful new friends! I will check back along with you guys at your blogs and see what you’ve been up, too. I’m still toying with the idea of starting a new blog encompassing fashion AND a positive lifestyle and if I go in that direction, you guys will be the first to know.
I’m also especially thankful for my local readers! You guys have been such an encouragement to me when you see me out and tell me that you read my blog. It’s meant a lot!
I want to thank everyone for reading…for commenting…for following. You could be doing a million different things with your day, so I appreciate the time you spend with me. I’ve said it before, “A writer writes with the hope of being read” and I thank you for giving me that.
That being said, I will still be posting on my Thrifty Girl Vintage Facebook page. You can find it here. Check it out and keep me posted on what’s going on!
I wish you all a Beautiful New Year! I’m serious about having fun with it! What sort of new mischief could YOU get into this year? Remember these wise words from Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover!”
I’m closing this blog post with some of my favorite looks of the past year:
Vintage inspired maxi look.
Dancing Bunnies
Here’s to a Beautiful and Magical 2012 for ALL OF US!!!
With Love from Thrifty Girl Vintage
A.K.A. Debbie Baker Burns
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
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