2010: Action-Packed with Pink!

It's pink Saturday over at "Beverly's How Sweet the Sound." Well it will be tomorrow but I won't be home in time. So I said to myself, 'Ange, your first New Year's goal is going to be writing a pink post. EARLY.' Pink, to me, being the quintessiential colour of optimism and hope, and therefore a great way to start the year. Me voilà!

Funny though. It's only the first day of the new year and already it feels like time is flying... literally slipping through my fingers. Honestly, where did the day go??? It is nearly time to go and fetch the messmonsters from their grandparents' house, a five hour drive from where I live in Toulouse. But I just had to meet the first goal I set myself for this year - just to set the record straight that 2010 is going to be a year to reach those goals!

 

By the sound of the following definitions which I've just found here, Pink might even be just the colour we all need to launch ourselves with bright abandon into a very promising new year. Here are a few reasons why...

Pink is said to:

Stimulate energy

Increase the blood pressure, respiration, heartbeat, and pulse rate

Encourage action and confidence

The time has come and I have to be on my way. Excuse me while I race off to slip into something a  little more pink that will boost my energy levels for the long drive ahead! Hmm - Maybe I have just the time to paint the inside of the car a bright fuschia before we go!

Blessings and may all your projects in 2010 packed pink with action and confidence!

Oops, nearly forgot! Don't forget to enter into my give away at my last post. 

It's open to all - darling followers or not!

Leap...

...and the net will appear!

This seems entirely natural for me.

Jumping in both feet that is, always trusting that things will work out.
(see more about this favourite subject of mine here)

Not leaping out of trees, I assure you.

Especially not this one!

I had just climbed up it in my special PINK
painting/tree climbing sneakers to put my
twinkly Christmas lights up.

Christmas wouldn't be quite as much fun if I couldn't climb my favourite tree to put my lights up.

Skippy, my much loved plank supplier, has nick-named me Tarzan...

Fitting - some days.

But, unlike Tarzan, I need my special pink shoes to do it.

Last year around this time I nearly ruined a really expensive pair of chocolate brown, soft leather boots in my hasty enthusiasm...

That took a bit of the shine off Christmas for Beaker - given that they were my Christmas presents from the year before...

So pink Converse sneakers and a happy tree-climbing-mummy-artist it has to be.

Spontaneity can be organised and still be spontaneous afterall
n'est-ce pas?

No reason to leap then! But Miss Magpie has inspired me, so...

Tomorrow I shall take the leap.

A real one! Well, literally speaking.

With my heart in my mouth.

If you want to find out why...

I invite you to come back then...

In the mean time, have a very adventurous Pink Saturday!

And seeing as I managed to finish another Positive-Plank, in spite of looking after my poorly, littlest messmonster all week, I can add to 'Art Everyday Month' with Leah as well! It's not very pink looking but I'm counting on my sneakers to sneak me in...

Does it pass inspection Miss Magpie?

La Vie en Rose ...

At my birth, a  little sparrow told me to believe that every thing would always turn out for the BeST ...

And each day, the early morning sky above my bedroom window brings a message from heaven that ...

... just plain tickles me PiNk...

Although I have a tendency to see life through rose coloured glasses anyway ...

I still like to raise a glass of this...

... and pray that, just like Lily the Pink,*

at this blessed time of Thanksgiving and Christmas...
... YOU, and your families too,

find yourselves in the PINK of health!

While we're on the subject of gratitude...

Thank you to the very enterprising and lovely Beverly for allowing me to be part of her

Pink Saturday and to my dear friend Mlle Fabulous French for all her help and encouragement!

PINK! It's more than a colour - it's a way of seeing the world!

*Based on the folk song "The Ballad Of Lydia Pinkham", "Lily the Pink" was a surprise hit, becoming the Christmas #1 in the UK singles chart for four weeks, in December 1968.