Les Vacances!

[ 30 December 2009 ]

Confetti!
Photo by JC i Núria.

Thank you two-thousand-&-divine — 2009 — for all that you have been.

Thank you for your lessons & challenges, your blessings & beauty.

Thank you for your introductions & endings, your magic & surprise.

Thank you for holding us close as well as letting us sprint off into the distance; thank you for simultaneously wrapping us in cotton wool & giving us a swift spanking!

Thank you for your protection & love.

We jump into two-thousand-&-amen — 2010 — with wide eyes, racing hearts & blazing visions. We are so very excited to see what you have in store for us!

Have an incredible new year’s eve. If you don’t go out, you might like to watch the Imagine Peace Tower (it’s lit all day & night of the 31st of December!) while you listen to music, laugh & make vision boards for the next decade.

If you do go out, be sure to dress up (see also!), kiss someone who makes you feel fabulous (even if it’s just your grandma, & even if it’s just on the cheek), stay safe & start 2010 as you mean to go on!

...& with that, I’m going on holiday for a week or so! Time to love on my family, catch up on some reading, bliss out over magical blueprints for the coming decade & get some delicious rest. I’ll be back soon with some mega-yummies! (You can still keep up with me on Twitter if you need your fix of the Galaverse!)

As always, I love you more than words can say. Thank you for being part of my experience of 2009. Here’s to a decade of splendor!


Love letters & feather headdresses,

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Comment

  1. Ohhh Gala,
    How you inspire me ;)
    I’m determined to have a spectacular new years, even if i have to dress up fancy all by myself and drink tea with my cat.
    Have a lovely holiday :)

    <3 Ilyra · Dec 30, 10:23 AM · #

  2. The Northern Lights are absolutely spectacular! Happy New Year, Gala!

    <3 'Becca'lise from Perfectly Swell · Dec 30, 10:26 AM · #

  3. OH!
    by the way….

    www.stumbleupon.com/su/1T8ai0/...

    <3 Ilyra · Dec 30, 10:28 AM · #

  4. LOVE love love the Northern Lights, love iCing!!! My life has really improved since finding this site, so thank you Gala and hope you have smashing holiday and Hogmanay!

    <3 Siobhan · Dec 30, 10:28 AM · #

  5. Enjoy your very well deserved break toots, and I hope you’re reserving your kiss for Hank?!

    Happy New Year to the galaverse from
    Scotland!!!

    <3 Scottish Colene · Dec 30, 10:36 AM · #

  6. Gala! Thank you for a divine 09. Enjoy the blissful rest – well deserved! d xx

    <3 Deanne · Dec 30, 11:09 AM · #

  7. Thank you so much for everything! Have a wonderful break and rest up for the exciting new year!

    <3 Jenny · Dec 30, 11:32 AM · #

  8. Have a wonderful New Year’s, Gala! I love your blog so much – it has inspired me to think more positively over the past couple of years. All of your posts mean a lot.

    <3 Lauren · Dec 30, 11:36 AM · #

  9. Happy New Year Gala Darling, darling Gala! Have a lovey vacation!

    <3 Lissa Casher · Dec 30, 11:36 AM · #

  10. It’s an amazing co-incidence that you posted a video of the Northern Lights. I was just thinking last night how I wanted to look up on youtube to see if there were any videos.

    <3 Suraya · Dec 30, 11:40 AM · #

  11. Happy New Year, Gala! Have a wonderful vacation! What a great way to kickstart 2010!

    <3 Alzy · Dec 30, 11:45 AM · #

  12. Happy new year, Galadearest! May you have a magical 2010!

    <3 Noel · Dec 30, 11:51 AM · #

  13. Hope your 2010 goes even better than ’09! I’m sure it will.

    <3 Becky C · Dec 30, 11:57 AM · #

  14. Happy New Year Gala! I hope that your vacation is wonderful and you come back ready to make more posts then ever before! Keep being inspiring and wonderful!

    Here is to a great 2010 everyone!

    <3 Luinae · Dec 30, 11:58 AM · #

  15. Thank You Gala!!!

    December has been so difficult and it’s really gotten me and my love so down. All we wanted to do was curl up and hide, but i feel like, with the help of this and your previous post, i’m ready to look 2009 in the eye and give it a good slap on the ass as it walks on by. :D

    ALSO!
    its a blue moon! and that’s fabulous

    thank you for everything, see you in the new year, may it be super splendid and wonderous for us all!

    <3 julia · Dec 30, 12:06 PM · #

  16. Have a great break! I’m so excited for 2010.

    <3 Michelle · Dec 30, 12:21 PM · #

  17. Happy New Year, Gala! Have a great holiday, and here’s to great many things that await us! Woo!

    <3 Yukino · Dec 30, 12:28 PM · #

  18. Have a good holiday hun!! This has definitely been a crazy year and I didn’t get a thing I expected, but hey…the Universe takes care of you if you let it, right?? :) Next year will be spectacular for us all!! Here’s to the beginning of a new decade!

    <3 Tiffany · Dec 30, 12:44 PM · #

  19. No, Gala, thank YOU. Thank you for being awesome and all that awesome jazz.

    Have a great vacation, and a great year, and a great decade! :D

    xx

    <3 Anna Raffaella · Dec 30, 02:13 PM · #

  20. Have a great holiday, Gala! I’m looking forward to a new year, though this one wasn’t as bad for me as it was for other people, I think…

    Here’s to a fresh start for everyone.

    <3 Francine · Dec 30, 04:03 PM · #

  21. Happy New Year, Gala! You were one of my best finds this year, and I hope to share the next decade with you, even if only via cyberspace. :) Thank you for the inspiration and all your sound advice!

    - Teresa

    <3 Teresa Jusino · Dec 30, 04:11 PM · #

  22. Hey Gala! Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are a fabulous human being wonderful! Have a great holiday and like everyone above I am looking forward to your inspiration being in my 2010 & beyond :)
    Ps: the last podcast was a blast – a great mix of optimism and realism – ta!

    <3 Nelly! · Dec 30, 04:40 PM · #

  23. Happy new year Gala ! thank you for being you -a gust of glittering pink carnival wind that brushes away all that is soiled , humdrum and greyishly dull just when one most needs it ! have a joyous beautiful eventful 2010 ! xxxxx

    <3 Hebe · Dec 30, 06:10 PM · #

  24. You have been such a saving grace this year Gala – inspiring and uplifting just when I need it. I hope you have a wonderful 2010! I can’t wait to see what magic will unfold on Icing this year!

    <3 Billy · Dec 30, 06:42 PM · #

  25. thank you gala, for everything!
    this next decade will be excellent. :)

    <3 Michelle · Dec 30, 07:00 PM · #

  26. Happiest of New Years to you Gala and family. I appreciate you so much. You are so inspiring not just because you do all this but it shines out from YOU BEING TRUE TO YOU...if you didn’t have that inner gala it wouldn’t be the same. I look forward to the new years Icing.

    <3 bleiu · Dec 31, 01:53 AM · #

  27. Ah, the Galaverse indeed! Your night sounds amazing. I usually hate posting those ‘orrible scribbles “what I am doing” but tonight I am spending the evening picnicking on a gravestone. Anyone like to join? Preferably someone who is happy and alone :D
    and a quote…..
    “The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” GK Chesterton.
    Fairwell, darling world :P

    <3 Corrie · Dec 31, 08:09 AM · #

  28. I love it when you write in French, I’m always surprised in seeing my first language on my favorite blog :D
    I wish you a happy new year, and may 2010 be as awesome, fabulous and merveilleuse as you are!

    <3 La Rouquine, formerly known as Poire Gourmande · Dec 31, 08:20 AM · #

  29. Happy Two-Thousand-Zen ;)

    <3 Lesly · Dec 31, 10:59 AM · #

  30. Happy New Year Gala!!!
    It has been just over a year now since I first discovered your fabulous website and it has been a real treat for me ever since! Thank you for being your wonderful self and have a great holiday!!!

    <3 Olivia · Dec 31, 11:34 AM · #

  31. HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR’S, gorgeous!

    <3 Sharon · Dec 31, 05:06 PM · #

  32. Happy new years Gala! I know you might not read this because you’re bound to get tons of comments, but you’ve inspired me so much and helped me more than you know. So thank you, and I hope you have a wonderful year.

    <3 bear · Jan 1, 01:46 AM · #

  33. The video you posted made me realize one thing: I want to see the northern lights in person before I die.

    <3 Vanessa · Jan 1, 12:23 PM · #

  34. One of my resolutions for 2O1O is to follow your articles daily & allow them to better influence my life. You write about truly inspirational and motivational topics, I’m excited to explore new possibilites this year!!

    xoxoxo

    <3 Meegs · Jan 1, 02:50 PM · #

  35. Hey, this has nothing to do with the subject, but I have a question.

    I’m 16 years old, and most of my life, I’ve been a jeans and a t-shirt (tomboy-ish?) rocker. I’m sick of that now. I’m still keeping the rocker-ness, but I need new ideas. I’m really sick of wearing jeans and much prefer leggings, skirts, dresses, etc. Basically the only jeans I wear nowadays are my turquoise skinny jeans. How can I dress trendy, but still look rocker on a budget (I’m currently unemployed)?

    P.S. If this gives you any idea, some of my bigger fashion icons are you (of course), Audrey Kitching, Izzy Hilton, and Miley Cyrus.

    <3 Beth · Jan 1, 03:50 PM · #

  36. You’re blog is in my top 3 inspiration source! Have a great holiday in the beginning of 2010!

    <3 jess · Jan 1, 04:34 PM · #

  37. Have an awesome holiday! Best wishes for 2010 xx

    <3 lissymissy · Jan 1, 06:24 PM · #

  38. Just wanted to wish you a happy new year!
    I’ve been reading your blog for a long time now and it still inspires me so much!
    Keep it up, girl!

    <3 Leanna Dear · Jan 1, 10:40 PM · #

  39. Thank you Gala for inspiring me throughout 2009! Here’s to 2010, cannot WAIT> :)

    <3 Joanne Faith · Jan 2, 06:23 PM · #

  40. Happy New Year to all fellow Nonpareils !!

    Hey Beth (above) – you’ve come to the right place! try reading this:

    galadarling.com/article/how

    and using some of the hints in :

    galadarling.com/article/wardro…

    &
    galadarling.com/article/tomboy &
    galadarling.com/advice/fashion

    &&&

    galadarling.com/advice/style

    !!! Good luck !!!

    I have missed the community-focus on here & hope that 2010 will be aaaawesome for everyone, I’m so excited!
    Happy New Year to Gala, the Dish & of course Hank.
    x Tasj

    <3 Natasja · Jan 2, 08:03 PM · #

  41. Gala! I got the moleskin color-a-month pack and its ah-maz-ing! Seriously, I was surprised how small they actually were, but they fit just wonderfully into my purse, which isn’t too big, and there’s more than enough room to plan my days/weeks on the pages. They are wonderful AND 50% off at my local bookstore. Total score :) Thanks for the suggestion!!

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

    <3 Natalie · Jan 4, 06:52 PM · #

  42. Hi Gala,
    I love your blog , you seem like such a conscious person (you know about raw foods and the universe ect..) and your still very fashionable.

    I was wondering if you have done any research on the new world order or alex jones .. even Heidi and spencer (speidi) were on his channel.
    I would love to know your view!

    <3 chelsea · Jan 5, 11:12 AM · #

  43. hi gala.

    i miss you. and your lovely words and lovely links and general loveliness.

    i loved the clip and have now added seeing the northern lights in person to my life dreams,

    please have a lovely restful awesome break.

    but also please come back soon..

    xxoo

    P.S. say hi to hank from me!!!

    <3 cookie · Jan 5, 07:58 PM · #

  44. Hi Gala…I emailed you earlier this week asking if you have an iphone app for your blog…well, if you don’t and are interested, I found this website that makes it really easy: phonegap.com/

    :)

    <3 Shandi · Jan 6, 12:30 PM · #

  45. I love how inspired I feel after visiting your site! thanks so much!

    I’ve definitely added a couple things to my list now :)

    xoxo

    <3 amyt · Jan 7, 02:56 PM · #