Happy Last Monday of 2014!

I hope you had a delightful holiday, a Merry Christmas, and are looking forward with vigor and optimism to whatever 2015 will bring. I had a nice little break these last three days – though admittedly, I was feeling a little lost without your company!

Once the New Year kicks in (in just a couple days), a funny thing happens to me.

And it’s funny because it happens every year, no matter what I do to forestall it. Deep down somewhere in my subconscious, I seem to illogically believe that once we hit January 2nd, spring is just around the corner.

And by just around the corner, I mean next week.

As many of you know, when you live in the northern hemisphere, this can be a dangerous mental predicament.

Usually, January is just the beginning of the winter haul. During November and December, we were so busy concentrating on holidays and reveling in everything we love about winter, that we didn’t think of winter as a drag.

But come January, the grey days, the cold, the on-going inconvenience of snow, the yearning for sunshine, warmth, green… well, if you don’t do something to combat this, the winter can seem very long, indeed!

And that brings me to an embroidery project that I worked six years ago, called Breath of Spring.