Day one of the rest of my life - self affirmation and life planning

Day one of my blog.  (Have I really started a blog?!!!)   Why did I start this blog?     I suppose I could say I woke up one morning and felt  a restless need to 'do something'; I started thinking  'where to from here?' 

However, this wasn't an overnight thing, it has been creeping up on me for a few years now.

Being the self-control freak I am, today I started making a list of questions. 

Step 1. What do I love to do? 
Step 2. Where do I like to be?
Step3. Who do I want to be/what do I want to be doing  in 5 years time/10 years time.
Step 4. How do I  keep true to myself, and in turn, my family and friends.

Step 1 is easy, but there is a catch, how do I make what I love to do bring in enough money to live on? 

I love to make old things beautiful again. I love to paint and make things, write, photograph, potter around,  run and exercise,  look at the ocean and get dirty, sweaty and tired, travel.   I love being really busy in a creative way. I love gardening and baking, eating, drinking wine and cosmopolitans.

I love music and dancing (by myself or with friends, drunk or sober - no preference).

I love my family and friends passionately and loyaly. Nothing is too hard to do for them, I just wish they would sometimes ask for more.

I love reading several blogs that have inspired me and, many times, helped me get over 'yuk' days.
Garance Dore
Gala Darling
Sarah Wilson         many many thanks to you lovely, radiant ladies.

If you haven't experienced these blogs Google them NOW!!!

I love the way many of the people in my immediate world are becoming more aware of a simpler way to live, and being conscious of the impact humans have.

I love fashion; dressing up, dressing down, browsing through clothes, looking at what other people are wearing.

I love researching and exploring the existential, spiritual and ethereal parts of my life and being.

I love ebay and second hand shops (no brainer on that one!)

Step 2.  I did this without even considering Step 1.  Now with a double mortgage/single income (and associated stress) I have initiated a part-time seachange.  I bought a house near a surf beach (real, honest to goodness seachange) that I am 'doing up! 

Step 3.  This keeps changing. However, that is a good thing.   I am so influenced by what is happening in my life now that I don't see the future clearly yet.  However,  I am experimenting with what I want to be doing later.  This step is a work in progress.  It would be awful to get this wrong; find in 10 years time that  I woke up  one morning (again) and felt  a restless need to 'do something' (again).

Step 4.  This is perhaps the easiest and the hardest to do.  I think that if I stay true to all the things in Step 1, I will stay me.

So, what will this blog have in it.

Firstly, I will be selling stuff on it, my beautiful renovations, amazing finds, things I have made. 

I want to share things I find beautiful with you.   Photos, music, art etc.

I want to tell you of the amazing books I have read.

I want to share my experiences of some amazing women I have read about or know personally ... (show me any woman, and I will show you an amazing woman). 

I want to show you my beach house as a work in progress.  Not a 'reno' site but a progression of my taste ... with out limitations (except perhaps for money).

Other websites which are awesome/inspirational/important

Other stuff as I think about it (ha ... recipes to make you happy etc).

See ya soon.

Sanja