Welcome to the world of glitter, glue, and a questionable amount of Taylor Swift cutouts. We are live-laugh-loving our way straight into the new year, complete with quotes from Good Housekeeping that we thought we left in 2006, washi tape that’s triggering high school senior scrapbook flashbacks, and gluesticks that defied the laws of expiration. It’s vision board night, and we’re manifesting that s***!
So what exactly is a “vision board night”? Well, a few friends of mine made it the loveliest Sunday evening I’ve had in quite some time. Luckily our crew comes with a built-in Martha Stewart and our host whipped, spun, and shook out a display of food fit for the likes of the Golden Globes attendees. Not only did we have homemade chicken tikka masala and a salad I don’t even have a name for because it just contained every bit of goodness you could imagine, but there were two, yes I said TWO, cakes ready for our mid-crafting dessert break. Okay, Jamie, you just set the bar for hosting in 2024. Good luck ladies!
After literally scarfing down my body weight in food, we migrated to the living room floor to snip out our deepest dreams and desires from an array of magazines collected from personal collections, a pit stop at the Austin Create Reuse Center (where you can find old magazines for projects like this on the cheap!), and the checkout lane in H-E-B. We also had an assortment of fun pens, washi tape, scrapbooking paper, glue, and scissors to make everything come together. From there, you’re on your own kid! Flip through those pages to tear, snip, and cut out whatever speaks to you. Inspiring quotes, cute dog pics, dream bathrooms, designer logos, cute dog pics, luxury destinations, taylor + travis, amazing homes, and maybe some cute dog pics. Okay, so I had a resounding common theme to mine. Sorry not sorry, my goal is simply to pet more dogs this year.
Little Miss “has a bedtime and doesn’t change it for anyone” (aka: me), quickly pasted her findings into a collage on some poster board, stepped back to marvel at the sights for a moment, and then ran off with a bag of to-go cookies to snuggle her doodle with her 2024 goals fresh in her mind overnight. My board got a prominent spot in the kitchen pantry where I start each day to feed my petting zoo, making it hard to miss on the daily.
Put your dreams out there besties, what’s the worst that could happen? They come true? 🤎
