January 1st

January 2016. New year, new board. Come over and follow the '2016 tried and tasted recipes' board. 12 recipes have made it already.

Today is January 1st!! It really doesn’t matter what your smartphone, desktop icons, or traditional flip-over calendar shows you—Today IS January 1st! (And yes, I realize this article is dated and posted on December 30th—but I still affirm that Today is January 1st.) And do you know why?? I’ll Start Tomorrow… It’s because, as humans,Keep Reading »

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Life moves fast—one minute, November’s wrapping up, and the next, you’re making New Year’s resolutions. But what if we stopped putting all the pressure on January 1st and started making small, meaningful changes right now?⁣ ⁣ I get it. We’re all juggling a million things—maybe a job that drains us, relationships that need work, or goals that keep getting pushed to “someday.” The notifications won’t stop buzzing, the emails keep piling up, and Netflix always has one more episode ready to go…

"I'm not a girl, I'm a storm with skin."

These delicately painted floral wreaths were a personal project for my brand Imelda Green's. Watercolor illustrations for each month.

Could you imagine watching the ball in Times Square drop around March? You might have been, had much of the Western world not adopted the modern calendar that begins each year on Jan. 1. The oldest recorded new year festivities date back to 2000 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia, where Iraq is now. Called akitu, the festival, which could last for up to 12 days, started on the day of the first new moon after the spring equinox—the day when sunlight and darkness are equally long. It usually fell…