On January 7th, I started the online Five Daily Gratitudes Challenge for Facebook & Twitter (and any other social or non-social media that you’d like to share in.) Why don’t you join me?
Now that we’re a few days into it, I think I’ll do a daily post entry for this, so I have an ongoing record here on the blog. I’m using this page as a bit of a scrapbook for images that I love or contain a certain memory for me too….because I’m so grateful for pictures and images in my life, there’s no possible way to put them into words as well.
Gratitude and thankfulness creates a feeling of a state of abundance and happiness for me. I’m content to share that and hope you share your abundance with me too.
Here are the things that I’m grateful for:
JANUARY
January 7, 2012
- Flannel Sheets
- Popcorn
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Long hair on little girls
- Chickens
January 8, 2012
- Gesso
- children on holidays
- holding hands with anyone in public
- red iron oxide
- fountain pens.
January 9, 2012
- Teenagers that get up for school
- financial planning
- bran buds
- Leonardo da Vinci
- daisys
- Snowy winter mountain mornings
- Coffee with friends
- paper snowflakes
- fragrant candles
- hair elastics
- Sharp scissors
- artist friends
- accountant friends
- sentimental greeting cards
- period costumes.
- Crazy fuzzy mittens and hats
- Men with babies
- Bacon
- Baskets with surprises
- Fleece
- Little girls in pink
- Gluesticks
- Worn Pebbles from the beach
- iPhones
- Tipis
January 14, 2012
- Sandra Donnelly
- Onyx, the first horse I’ve ridden in 8+ years
- Brian & Wendy Ladurantaye
- Grace
- Hot tubs
January 15, 2012
- Salt
- Pepper
- Blowing Bubbles
- Electricity
- Pond Skating
January 16, 2012
- Many prepped linens in my studio
- Daylight
- The wheel
- Kleenex
January 17, 2012
- Tech geeks
- Absorbine Jr.
- Good surgeons with a bedside manner
- Friends in faraway places
- Bamboo
January 18, 2012
- Artists
- Jello
- Ice Sculptures
- Public Art
- Baby Toes
January 19, 2012
- Clean bathrooms
- Starry nights
- Harvest moons
- Sticky toffee pudding
- Smiling teenagers.
January 20, 2012
- Fridays
- Buffalo checkered flannel
- Lavender
- Gloaming time
- Lucy Maude Montgomery
January 21, 2012
- Tipis
- John Singer Sargent
- Big boys that babysit little sisters
- Hand cream
- Bananas and strawberries together
January 22, 2012
- Snow tires
- picnic lunches
- glaciers
- ice carvings
- tea in Lake Louise
January 23, 2012
- Maple syrup
- red conte
- snowplows
- French accents
- Austrian drawknife
January 24, 2012
- Unexpected group hugs
- Family dinners
- French Brandy
- Bookkeepers
- Spreadsheets
January 25, 2012
- Flat pillows
- Internet banking
- Red Maple Trees
- Blundstone ankle boots
- Smelly markers
January 26, 2012
- kdahkdahmachin
- any birthday over 80
- 32gb SD cards
- water from my tap
- children reading to me
January 27, 2012
- expression
- lavendar hand cream
- jingle dresses
- clarity
- naming
January 28, 2012
- brilliant ideas followed by action
- zen moments with horses
- new friends
- the unexpected
- avocados
January 29, 2012
- Steve Martin
- popcorn
- independence
- new guitar strings
- conceptual thought
January 30, 2012
- Kicking butt that needs it
- Fresh air
- horse smell on my hands
- touching black velvet
- smooth jazz on Sunday nights
January 31, 2011
- “girls” dinners out
- olives
- freedom of expression
- old photos
- volunteering at schools
- uncontrollable giggling
- colouring with crayons again
- carrot cake
- Ane Brune
- good design
February 2
- Alizarin Crimson
- anything maple
- raw silk
- clay
- home movies
February 3
-
Warm Milk warm milk at bedtime
- reading anything Dr. Seuss
- surprises
- Grandpa Tom
- stickers
- Being One with a horse – wow!
- slow-cooked ribs
- son playing guitar
- great report cards
- buffalo
- french braids
- wild dreams & nightmares
- being up before sunrise
- being born in the 60’s
- independent films
February 6
- cruise control
- homemade oatmeal cookies
- visits from friends
- swimming in a lake
- parisian cafe jazz
February 7
- Lead white
- reading snuggles
- kid’s drawings
- principles
- my mommy
February 8
- Lemon Pie
- painting every day
- sweetgrass
- kissing
- fat buddha back on my desk
February 9
- reading about dinosaurs
- chèvre
- dancing with abandon
- walkie-talkies
- tobogganing
February 10
- portrait grade belgian linen
- new brushes
- down duvets
- bamboo socks
- haircuts
- Moonrise
- carpet steamers
- mist
- maple leaves
- baby cheeks
- Studio time with Grace
- Valentine’s Day
- tuna salad
- hot showers
- tucking in
- Moonrise
- carpet steamers
- mist
- maple leaves
- baby cheeks
- antibiotics
- Bugs Bunny
- good doctors
- ultrasound
- tangerines
February 14
- snow
- making class valentines with Grace
- thick towels
- frogs
- Itzhak Perlman
- Love
- Hope
- breakfast with Jake
- radio
- rubber boots
- understanding form and light
- alpenglow
- downloadable online video
- LED lights
- cotton
- Princeton brushes
- belgian linen
- lead white
- board games
- Russian painters
- sleep
- intelligent artful conversation
- espresso
- the smell of freshly cut wood
- damar crystals
February 19
- Anything purple at sunrise
- homemade chili to go
- picnic lunches
- visiting Grandpa
- giggling little girls
- British dramas
- old books
- old-fashioned mail
- kissing
- crazy hair day
- ski day
- balaclavas
- sausage mcmuffin
- dry snow
- All kids home
- Barbie installations
- Mock Duck
- Alice In Wonderland
- portrait grade linen
February 24
- Fridays
- making forts – inside or out
- alla prima
- dinner with friends
- uncontrollable giggling
February 25
- Finishing works
- cuddling
- Murphy’s oil soap
- razor blades
- clouds
I like this!!!
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What a great idea. I’m starting my own ‘gratitude’ journal today!
Jan
What a great idea. I’m starting my own ‘gratitude’ journal today!
Jan
I have one gratitude that I give thanks for each day and it is for freinds like you that make me think creatively, without abandon and with that sense of simply being human! Thank you Janice.
Oh Louise, you’re quite the inspiration yourself, my dear friend. And yes…if we abandon all pretense and become simply human…there is a whole world of creativity awaiting.