INSPIRATION | LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD USING LISTS

 

Hi everyone,
Hope the start to 2021 has been safe and peaceful where you are. There is so much talk about how utterly dreadful 2020 has been and rightly so. What to do when you are documenting such a year? Absolutely, the awfulness of the year should be scrapped but today I am aiming for a more positive spin on the year. Time to look back on the good things that happened last year and make a list of what you are looking forward to this year.

This month’s BYOC Listed kit makes this a snack, and I have decided to do near identical pages for last year and this year with some symbolic changes between the two. Using a single kit this way makes it easy to get a tied together look with noticeably different outcomes.

Firstly, even though this page highlights the positives that came out of last year, the colour scheme is muted, the elements are kept simple, nothing extravagant here because, it can't be avoided - it was a pretty dire year and that should be reflected in some way here. All these outcomes from last year make me smile and remeber some lovely things that happened, nothing grand and that's ok! Last year we learnt to take pleasure in small but significant parts of our lives.

2021 we are hoping will be a much more joyous year and the colourful page lends itself towards this more hopeful future. The flowers and spring colours are associated with a new start, something we desperately need! The list itself is pretty general because if it is one thing we have learnt this year, is it doesn’t take much to unravel well thought out plans so this feels doable at this stage (maybe the happy news is a bit out of my hands though!) 

So start thinking about making your own reflective list as well as hat you are looking forward to these coming months. Also try for an all positive list, it does make you feel just a tiny bit better, I promise you!