corner view ≈ twinkle {dreams and wishes}

i do hope y'all made a twinkling start to 2015. maybe you have made a few new year's resolutions? may you move closer to your dreams, for making dreams come true is one of the main purposes in life. i believe our dreams are the cherries on the cake, and we should not always leave them for last {speak for myself}; we should move right in. 
i've changed the look of my blog a teeny weeny bit, introducing the jump break {which you've used, since you are reading this}. this woolfy break offers the kind reader the opportunity rather to keep on reading. that is only fair: these days we find ourselves before the mammoth task of exploring favourite sites and stories a-plenty, we can agree it is a challenging run to keep up with. 
i'm taking a steep road in this new year. finding myself in a professional rut, i desperately need sorting out my life, for nobody else will. maybe it's midlife talking, hormones shining through, swallowing life's gains and losses. somehow i feel a little deflated. as an unkind flu floored me recently, i got to {wishful} thinking and ...
... to rearranging cupboards, throwing out long outdated materials, stitching long overdue curtains, mixed with a ginger twinkle in my glass. it all ambivalently helped however, to shift down to a milder mode and settle for an inner strength. a strength i envisage every day, one that gets so easily corroded. on a lighter note, i think i shall crochet me another blanket.
coming back to dreaming. dreaming is the one thing i am rather bad at. i should visualize my goals more {if i can define my goals}. i always tell my son he ought to go about it that way, how about taking some of my own medicine? that wish is my vrai twinkle for this week. for this whole d*** year even. and beyond. 
dear reader, kind enough to arrive at this point in my post. you are courageous and gorgeous. thank you for your presence here. and thank you francesca, for hosting our weekly rendez-vous. thank you jane, for a fabulous corner view. happy, happy new year, 2015.
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24 comments :

  1. stardustJanuary 7, 2015 at 9:25 AM

    Thank you for the New Year wishes to us and I do wish the same to you. New year is the time when our hope/dream is at its peak. I’d like to keep it alive and I’ll remember your analogy of cherries on the cake associated with our dream.

    Yoko

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  2. JuanaJanuary 7, 2015 at 9:56 AM

    Thanks dear Nadine for your good wishes! And I hope this New Year will be plenty of wonderful things. Beautiful pictures!

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  3. In de ruimteJanuary 7, 2015 at 10:21 AM

    Poetic image and I wish you nice views in 2015.

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  4. tanïaJanuary 7, 2015 at 12:03 PM

    True thoughts of a new year's beginning. Hope, 2015 will bring you whatever you're dreaming of. Dreaming is one thing. Of which I'm totally an expert, by the way. If dreamer was a profession, I could finally be called successful, haha! My personal task is to struggle to make dreams come to true. Hard work for me. But I'll keep the cherry-thing in my mind now, I'll promise! Let's see, how far we get with our resolutions... ;-)

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  5. Tammie LeeJanuary 7, 2015 at 12:06 PM

    all your photos are a joy to see
    i love the twinkles in the first image
    i am hoping that you are feeling much better now
    dreaming up our lives as we wish them to be is a good practice
    to find new vitality sometimes takes rearranging and new choices
    thank you for sharing beautiful you
    with us
    i agree, let us eat the cherries ;-)

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  6. BethJanuary 7, 2015 at 12:12 PM

    I cleaned up my huge walk-in closet and came up with two big boxes of clothes I finally gave up on ever wearing again. There are dreams and then there's reality. My reality is that I am in perpetual menopause (I'm one of the 'lucky' 10% who never see an end to it) and thus losing weight is extremely difficult as my body thinks I need the extra weight for the change taking place ( a never-ending one).
    I loved that first photo esp. I enjoyed reading everything and urge you to understand that melancholy can be a good thing if it spurs you on to do something about it, like that blanket or those curtains or those closets.:>)

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  7. Patrice A.January 7, 2015 at 1:59 PM

    ;^))
    here there has also been a clean up
    and there is more of that to come
    to live a lighter life is the goal
    and that menopause.. don't mention it
    says she with hot and flushing cheeks ;^))
    x

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  8. Janet GhioJanuary 7, 2015 at 2:22 PM

    What beautiful photos you have posted especially the first one and the bowl of fruit--but they are all so pleasing to look at. May you pick and choose some of those cherries on the cake and enjoy them this year!

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  9. likeschocolateJanuary 7, 2015 at 2:30 PM

    Have you ever made a dream board. It is a board where you paste pictures and words of the things you want to accomplish and by seeing it more it is suppose to help you keep focus on the goal. My husband is going through the same thing right now. He has had to make some really hard decisions this week in his job. The first photo is stunning! WoW! Wishing you a very happy year filled with goals realized. Kelleyn

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  10. UnknownJanuary 7, 2015 at 6:23 PM

    It's You time, with a capital Y. And that's important. I think you're great the way you are. Simply because you give me a beautiful look inside your eyes by showing these photo's. And that's so personal, so fantastic, for me that's you.

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  11. FrancescaJanuary 8, 2015 at 8:13 AM

    sounds like we're at the same point in life, where one looks ahead, and sees fewer paths, and the urgency of choosing the right one. i love the image of the twinkling sky (wow, how did you manage that?), and here's to a twinkling new year, nadine!

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  12. shayndelJanuary 8, 2015 at 1:29 PM

    I love the twinkling sky too and that makes me find a rhyme right away which is the twinkle in your eye, n♥
    May that twinkle lead you to new vision, clear paths, and a wonderful sparkling year!!
    Lots of love and as we say in Japanese, Kotoshi mo Yoroshiku!! Its an only-in-Japanese one of a kind saying, which means, something like, `this year too I look forward to the pleasure and honor of your twinkling company` (thats a jgy♥♥♡translation especially for you!)xo

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  13. shayndelJanuary 8, 2015 at 1:30 PM

    PS wonderful photos and congrats on the new look!♡

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  14. Kristen DoneganJanuary 8, 2015 at 3:05 PM

    I love your sentiment of sometimes eating the cherry first- I think that is one of the many little steps we must take to make dreams come true- weather we know what these dreams are or not is not as important as feeling we have them inside :) and allowing them to take shape in our life...

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  15. RedekerJanuary 8, 2015 at 7:16 PM

    you sure are an good writer with your lovely photo's!!
    I hope you find your cherries this year and I sure hope to meet you!
    Love Susanna -x-

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  16. TheresaJanuary 8, 2015 at 7:32 PM

    I so relate to everything you say here. Go for it, I hope you realize your true dreams!

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  17. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 11:39 AM

    Lovely changes in the blog page. Happy new year, and for me no resolution for 2015, just enjoy day by day...and smile, a lot

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  18. janeJanuary 9, 2015 at 1:38 PM

    love this. thanks fro reminding me. :) big hugs dear friend. and wishing you the same. :)
    xoxo

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  19. KristinJanuary 10, 2015 at 4:56 PM

    I think this will be a fantastic year. I'm sure. For you and for me.

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  20. KariJanuary 11, 2015 at 10:32 PM

    Oh Nadine, Happy New Twinkling year to you too. I love love love your photo's but your words are even more encouraging to me. There is no shame in putting yourself first. Dream big and one step at a time.
    Much love and Sending you hugs.....

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  21. karynJanuary 13, 2015 at 5:27 AM

    I love what you've written here . . . we should definitely not always leave our dreams til last. I too am feeling as if I'm in a bit of a rut - and I'm trying to turn over a new leaf (or many new leaves!!) . . . always difficult to make changes and clear out the dusty corners of one's life. Good to know others are on the same journey. Happy new year to you - I hope it's a year of lots of dreams being lived for you - Karyn - Eliza's Dream x

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  22. UnknownJanuary 14, 2015 at 9:59 AM

    Dear Nadine, what a wonderful and insightful post about going after our dreams as far as we know and believe having the rigtht to have them and the possitbility to make them true. You did speak right out my heart and we should all follow our own advises more often, me too. Thanks for this!
    bee

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  23. LeslieJanuary 30, 2015 at 5:06 PM

    this is the most magical image. gives one a lot to dream on, yes?

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  24. LeslieJanuary 30, 2015 at 5:08 PM

    and i commented before i realized there was MORE! i do love the dandelion too… but hate that the flu knocked you down and out. hopefully you are much better now, and getting ready for the new month and new dreams, perhaps??

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