hoping, wishing, making my lists...

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with one big holiday behind me, thanksgiving, and another big holiday ahead of me, christmas, i find myself busier than i had imagined. i have christmas lists to write a wish list to wish upon and lots of plans to make. i am sending out graduation invitations. the big day is december 7th and i am very anxious as the day approaches hoping i haven't forgotten anything.

i am doing a lot of christmas shopping and gift-wrapping. it just all becomes so overwhelming at times. there are things i am hoping i can stop the chaos for, long enough to enjoy this holiday season. i love christmas lights and driving around to just stare at people’s homes decorated in such wonderful holiday cheer. i want to enjoy the season and not just let it blow by me without so much as a real glance into the magic. i want to take it all in and i want to put it on film.

one thing on my wish list at the moment is the time to take more photographs that i want to take. i enjoy it so much, yet i have lost some of the creativity that once drove me to snap away. another interest that has slowly been developing and i am hoping to nurture is scrapbooking. there are so many creative ways you can use paper and tags and ribbon and i want to know them all and come up with my own inventive ways of doing things. perhaps this will be something more worthwhile in the future, more that just a wish.

...and just why did i decide to get creative and make my own christmas cards?