Hello my beloved readership,

while advent was bold Christmas-time along with the New Year’s Eve nails are more shiny and glittery. Maybe a new hope with the new year? Check it out here.

The last year has been a real punch in the face, literally. The better it started with our daughters very emotional baptism and birthday the worse it continued. If you can count this big event to the last year at all considering the lunar year. Anyway, starting from never-wanting-to-end sicknesses up to angst, heavy quarrels and if all of that was not enough there was the death of one of the closest people of mine (the latter is why I have not posted anything for late December). Tears, fears, doubts – no surprise I wondered if I can ever be happy again at all. As you commonly say, of course it was not all bad. In between we enjoyed wonderful trips and I met a very long-time friend of mine who introduced me to another great people and then there was this most precious gift we had just one week before that with people very special to me getting married and making me the marriage witness. In fact there are things I do and still cherish. Well, life is in fact a roller-coaster: sometimes there are ups and then again there are downs. What matters is that you are never going to give up. Things do not become bad because a negative event takes place. Things become bad when we stop believing in them.

Now you may probably expect things to change for good because the new year has started, because it feels like we turned back time and reset what happened and can change with the knowledge we have about the future. And it is not only a beautiful saying put into one of my favorite songs but in fact without the night the day cannot start again. However as for the new year some things cannot be brought back, some things cannot even be fixed, undone not even at all because you still see the scratches by having it in your mind but in fact you can see the new way to go. You do not need to change, reset or try to undo what has happened but you can make the best of every situation and take control of your destiny and future.

So, dear 2023, you have been an incredible mess but I am not going to give up and so: welcome 2024.

Nails by Hanny Beautiful Nails

If you feel like the color-theme is very similar to my last nail-art you might not even be wrong. I had presented it to you back at the end of November for the advent-time here. I usually like change for my nails. Because once they are on I keep them for approximately one month. But in fact there is a reason why I chose a similar theme: It is the the year of the wood-dragon and these are the colors of fortune for this year. So to give myself the change I just chose a very glittery instead of the metallic coating. This suits more to the festive season. And this time I chose gold as dominant color against silver.

Huge thanks to Hanny Beautiful Nails for the great nail-art. Find all information for your visit here.

Love, Johanna