time flies when you're having fun.

My darlings, cyber-peeps, internet world, all you readers out there, the young, the old and the in-between…

It's 2014!!! Happy New Year one and all! 

I hope the month of December saw each and everyone of you having nothing less than a fantastic Christmas with santa being very good to you all, as well as ringing in those Hogmanay bells in true style yesterday evening! Can you believe it? It's 2014! Here we are yet again at the beginning of a new year, a new chapter, a fresh start, a new leaf...you get my drift. But yes, as I was saying, here we truly are, the year of 'unlucky for some 2013' at the back of us and a whole new twelve months of 2014 sitting on our doorstep.

I must first of all start by apologising yet again for my severe lack of blogging and general updates to 'ching ching, darlings!' over the past month, I'm sure you can all imagine that my time at home (still here by the way, just FYI) has been nothing less than go, go, go! Anyway, seeing as today is the first day of the new year, I was most certainly able to find some down-time to write a spiffing new entry for you all on this wonderful Wednesday evening. Have you missed me? I've missed all of you! 

If any of you are like me, the first day of a new year is always a quiet, calm, relaxing and most of all thought-provoking day. The first day of the new year is always a time I find to have incredibly mixed emotions attached to it, from thinking about absent family and friends to moments in the past year you wish you could relive, contemplating what lies ahead in the coming months, along with that all-pressured feeling to make the new year as good as it possibly can be, because after all, we never know when it's gonna be our last one, right? 

As I sit here in the comfort of my living room, having had one too many gin and tonics (oh and can I just say, Hendricks gin is simply a pleasure, seriously, I take my hat off to you Hendricks darling! Top notch gin right there!) Anyhow, yes, as I sit here absolutely stuffed to the brim after a good old New Year's Day steak pie with my dear family and friends around me, I can certainly say that for right now, I'm satisfied.  

It's now a mere 5 days until I return to the magic of the Swedish capital (get the champagne at the ready folks...wink wink!) and if you ask me, my time at home has gone far too fast, however, when I look back on my time spent in the UK, it has certainly went fast for a reason…and I don't think that reason is a bad one! I've had nothing but sheer hilarity, joy, priceless and fun-filled moments since I've graced the homeland with my presence once again. There really is never a truer saying, time flies when you're having fun. 

There's no doubt that the month of December and the general festive period is a stressful and action-packed time. It's often hard to stop ourselves from getting caught up in all those details that, let's be honest, are stressed over and worried about far too much when really, they are of much insignificance. Family, friends, good people, festive cheer and appreciativeness towards what we are lucky enough to already have is what truly matters. I hope that all of you out there, wherever you may be in the world, have had at least a period of time, be it small or large, to just sit back, de-stress and enjoy some well earned time off from the daily stresses that the realities of life impose. 

As I look to the new year I can't help but have extremely positive vibes for what lies ahead…it also can't hurt that the first five months will be spent in Stockholm too, right?! 

Nevertheless, home is where the heart is, and seeing as that's where I am at this precise moment, that's completely where my thoughts and energy will go towards and remain. As I try to make the most of the little time I have left on UK soil, it's safe to say some emotional moments will be had throughout my last few days here. I find that it's often not until you return to a place that you realise how special that place and the people within it are - and my own bed, oh my god my own bed.

With 2014 now officially upon us, I wish each and everyone of you a healthy, fruitful, proactive, productive, positive and love-filled year filled with nothing less than an abundance of laughter! 

Oh, for the record, laughter is the best kind of medicine if you ask me…just sayin'. You can't have enough laughter. 

As the image at the top suggests guys, if we try to make 2014 a year in which we simplify, be inspired, be original, work hard and above all, ENJOY, then I don't think we'll have much to regret come New Years Eve this year. 

I'll leave you all with a few snaps of my wonderful time spent at home so far, because of course who wouldn't want to see these, right?

Welcome to 2014 guys! Lets start as we mean to continue! 

Until next time.

L xo