Falling off the sugar wagon…

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Amsterdam, Candy, Meringues, New Year's Resolutions

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it. – L.M. Montgomery

So much for that New Year’s resolution!

Photograph © Joan Currie

Designing a New Year …

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Danielle LaPorte, Jonathan Fields, Lauren DiMarco, New beginnings, New Year's Resolutions, Photography

Design is love. Good design is love – it’s well-thought. Good design considers everybody. It considers your emotions, it considers the ecology. There’s beauty in it. Good design – there’s always some kind of elegance to it.
by Danielle LaPorte in an interview with Jonathan Fields

Designing a big, beauteous, beguiling, and bodacious New Year!

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Resolutions interrupted…

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Eric Zorn, New Year's Resolutions, Promises, Sintra

© Joan Currie

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. – Eric Zorn

For once, I am hoping to keep the promises I made to myself…

Resolutions Revisited…

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beautiful, Beauty, Lauren DiMarco, Lincoln, Memoir, New Year's Resolutions, Photography, postaweek2011

© Lauren DiMarco

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

In the 1980s we bought most of our electronics, jewelry, and toys from a catalog showroom store. We liked the idea of having the opportunity to preview and test out the merchandise before making a selection and, as a result, were always satisfied with our purchases.

On this first day of 2011, I am reviewing my resolutions for the year. I wish there were some way to test-drive some of the action items, as I did in that retail store, before investing the time, energy, and money necessary to make them happen. Several of my big ideas are fraught with considerable risk and I need to figure out how to manage that element. If after careful evaluation, I decide to embrace the projects full on, then the possibility exists that, by this time next year, one or two of them may have come to fruition!

Model – Lauren DiMarco