New Member Joining Us!!!

Hello everyone! I hope that you enjoyed your holiday.

I am popping in today to let you know that we have a new team member joining us. Back in October I started wooing one of our participants to see if she might join us here on our team and lucky girl that I am, she agreed! With the loss of Julie and Pat who are both still on leaves of absences, our usually small team became really small with just three members! Thankfully, with the addition of our newest member we'll be back up to four at least. Incredibly, it has been exactly three years since we brought on our last member so it was definitely time to add to our talent!

I won't keep you in suspense any more. Carole from Craftilicious Creations will be joining us. Carole has been a supporter of the blog for some time now and thankfully she was in a position to take on some new design team work. We are so very fortunate to have this wonderful woman join us. Her positive outlook and incredible design skills will definitely be assets to the team. Let's get to know her a bit, shall we?

Hello! I'm Carole and I’m from the North West of England where it’s often cloudy and mostly raining! I live with my lovely hubby and our kitty, Casey.

I have been creating for as long as I can remember. I love all types of arts and crafts and will happily have a go at any. In the past, besides getting inky, painty, sticky and glittery with paper crafts, I have knitted, sewed, quilted, embroidered, cross stitched, made batik, made and swapped Pocket Letters and scrapbooked. I am enjoying mosaic workshops at the moment and hope to attend a glass fusing course this year. At the moment I am working on improving my art journal skills. I’m lucky to have a room at home where I can create. I spend hours in there, getting lost in the creative process and losing all track of time. At the moment I’m enjoying making cards, ATCs and recycling/altering boxes, tins and such like. I design for a few companies and would describe my style as eclectic, loving everything from cute and whimsical to shabby chic and vintage. I enjoy working with digital images and pretty design papers, but I also like to incorporate stamping and mixed media techniques and enjoy getting my fingers inky. When I’m not buried in my craft room, I enjoy reading, gardening, yoga, pilates and travelling.

I am so excited to have been invited to join the Path of Positivity Design Team.

Please join me in welcoming Carole to the team. You will get to see one of her amazing creations in just a few days as she officially comes on board for our very first challenge of the year, beginning this Monday evening, January 6th. To visit Carole beforehand, just click on her blog badge or name above.

I hope to see you all very soon when Challenge #76 begins!

Welcome!

In this day and age, we are continually bombarded with images that leave us empty: murder, war, terrorism, natural disaster, intolerance, hatred... the list could go on and on. Our world is a place of ever increasing negativity it seems. It doesn't matter whether we turn on the television, listen to the news, read the paper or just chat with friends. Odds are we will end up walking away feeling a sense of despair. Many of us ask where the good has gone when we take in all the horrors that surround us. Some days the bad just seems to outweigh the good we see in this world. However, we don't have to go very far to see the miracles of daily life that abound.

From the way the sun warms our face on a cold day, to the embrace of a loved one; from the way a butterfly brushes our cheek during a summer walk, to the sounds of the birds chirping in the trees--we are surrounded with beauty, majesty and love. The problem, I believe, is that we have just become too jaded from all the negativity in the world, our community, sometimes even our own backyard, to see the good, that in spite of everything, subsists.

Morality and justice continue to exist. We just need to look a little harder to see it. We need to rub the disillusion from our eyes that has clouded our vision in order to see the joy this world even now has to offer.

To that end, I have been inspired to create a place where I can come to see projects or posts that provide help, hope, courage, love, forgiveness, peace, motivation, encouragement, etc. A place to come especially on those days when the woes of the world just seem too much to bear. This is a place I would like to share with others who feel as I do. Therefore, welcome to the 'Path of Positivity Challenge' -- a different sort of challenge blog designed to inspire, nurture and provide support for the soul by creating a positive path to follow, one project or post at a time!

I have included this information in the 'Introduction' tab above.  You will also find tabs for the "Challenge Details', our amazing 'Sponsors' and 'Challenge Win Information'.

I hope that you will join me on this unique journey and help to bring a little sunshine to our corner of the blogiverse!

Always remember...

Sincerely,