The 1st Creative Me Monday of 2012!
Happy New Year, friends!
So... 2012! 2012, can you believe it?
A new year.
A blank slate.
A fresh start.
I love the new year. I love Christmas, but I also really enjoy putting all of the decorations away and taking the tree down and feeling like the house is clean and open again. Of course, it looks a bit bare, but it calms me a little bit. Do any of you feel that way too? I've been thinking about goals for this year; personal, blogging, professional, spiritual... not necessarily in that order. I can feel a still small voice speaking to me, and I'm trying to listen with an open heart. It's a little bit scary. Last year some of us in The Southern Institute community and elsewhere around blogland chose a word for 2011 and I'd love to do that again this year. I've been thinking and praying about it... have you? Let's link our Word for 2012 posts up on Tuesday, shall we?
Last week's Creative Me Monday link had the lowest number of entries in a looooooong time, but you know what? That makes me happy! I imagined you all spending time with your loved ones and being so wrapped up in the magic of the holidays that you didn't have time to link up. I know I neglected my blog last week, and I didn't miss it one bit (no offense to you all)!
Let's get down to the fun! We did have several of you link up last week and you shared some really fun projects. This week's featured link is The Fleece Boa from Athena at The Stuff of Success. This is a fun and easy project that makes a great dress up accessory for a little girl or a cozy winter scarf.
Look at her posing! You can tell she loves her boa. Thanks for linking up, Athena! Athena has a linky party herself every week, where you can link your projects up.
Okay, now it's your turn! Just a few guidelines for linking up. Please:
- Follow The Southern Institute and display the Creative Me Monday button somewhere in your post or on your blog. The button html is at the top of the post. Just copy and paste!
- Don't have anything new? Show us something from your archives...old to you is new to us!
- You can link up as many things as you'd like, the more the better your chances of being the featured link next week!
- Visit at least two other blogs and leave some comment love. We are a community that supports one another, right? Right!
- No shop links please. You can link up a giveaway as long as it's attached to a project that you're linking up.
Don't forget to grab and proudly display the "featured" button if you're project has been in the featured spot on Creative Me Monday.
One more thing... I'm thinking of changing the name of this linky party to Creative Me instead of Creative Me Monday and having a new button made. Do you think having Monday in the name leads people to think they can only link up on Mondays? I'm curious.
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