Thanks to Paisley Jade, I have fallen in love with (yet another) project stolen from: Catalina's 100 challange. A fellow linker, and then I spent half of last night creating my "list". Its fantabulously amasing and I have included a lot of stuff I want/wanted to do anyways.
I am doing it from birthday to birthday, but its starting a little early. I turn 27 next Tuesday, and then by the time I am 28 I intend to have achieved the following 101 Tasks. (yes true to form, I have altered the WHOLE challange... I do this with almost everything. thats why I can't sew....I don't do patterns)
So here goes:
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3. Go out of your way to do something kind for a stranger.
4. Do a body detox.
5. Write in my journal on a regular basis.
6. Have a picnic.
8. Buy our house.
9.
10. Makeover the twins room.
11. Go to an opshop and buy something "ugly" with potential. Make it beautiful and wear it proudly.
12. Do the Dale Carnegie course.
13. Help someone do something they thought they couldn't.
14. Write down 7 separate places from my life that I hope to take my children to see.
15. Don't log into facebook for a week.
16. Listen to classical music while doing the housework.
17. Wake the kids up at 10.00 pm one night, just to say "I love you".
18. Look through my old recipe books, choose one book and try cooking every recipe in it!
19. Make exercise a part of my day.
20. Plant a vege garden.
21. Host a New Years Eve Dinner party.
22. Scrapbook the wedding.
23. Volunteer at Rockchicks school for a day.
24. Go for a family walk on the beach at sunset.
25. Create an eco-friendly home by making my own cleaners.
26. Get a children's book published.
27. Makeover Rockchicks room.
28. Plant spring bulbs.
29. Make homemade icecream.
30. Make a loaf of bread from scratch.
31. Stop taking my laptop to bed every night.
32. Send a personal letter, every week. Buy a letter writing set to do this with.
33. Create an occasion to wear my most impractical pair of shoes.
34. Go to a Sunday market and look at all the colours, people, stalls, food, gifts and smell and listen.
35. Go out of your way to do something kind for a stranger.
36. Write a letter to myself to read in ten years time.
37. Have a long, relaxing bath with bubble bath and bath oil. Read till my fingers wrinkle. Then go straight to bed. Do this as soon as the kids are down for the night.
38. Send a surprise I-think-you’re-fabulous handwritten note to someone.
39. Go fruit picking.
40. Write letters to 5 people who have influenced my life for the better and post them.
41. Make home-made jam or relish or preserve fruit and give the first one away.
42. Make a list of my 52 favourite quotes and make a deck of cards book with them.
43. Cut flowers, weeds, tree branches whatever is there and arrange them in a vase creatively. Thank the flowers etc as you cut them. Out loud.
44. Create the kids Journey Books.
45. Do the housework listening to classical music.
46. Make an "I'm Bored" jar. Make some Activities bags.
47. Answer the "50 questions that will free your mind".
48. Start a Notes Journal with Rockchick and keep it. Started 28/9/2011
49. Pay for the next cup of coffee.
50. Don't complain about anything for a week.
51. Get a tattoo.
52. Write all my worst memories on paper. Burn it.
53. Make Gingerbread Houses.
54. Collect all my family and friends birthdays, put them into my calendar and send them all birthday cards by post.
55. Buy someone a bottle of bubble bath and a rubber ducky – this has got to be given to an adult!
56. Create my Dream House file.
57. Make friendship bracelets.
58. Blow up balloons for the kids birthdays and leave them on the floor for them to wake up to.
59. Donate Blood.
60. Lose 10 Kgs.
61. Make over the master bedroom.
62. Leave a card with a nice quote for someone under their window wiper.
63. Be a good friend and take over a batch of homemade cookies or a cake.
64. List 100 achievements I have managed in my life so far.
65. Collect all the crystals in the house, take them to a forest and roll them in the dirt, then to the beach and wash them in the sea. Bring them home and leave them in the moonlight. Replace them in the house the next day. Do this on a full moon.
66. Find out a friends fave cake flavour and bake it for them.
67. Jump in the bath with the kids.
68. Create an inspiration board.
69. Read 20 new books. And a few old and dear ones.
70. Build a sundial with the kids.
71. Put a love note in Rockchick's lunch box.
72. Make a list of 25 things I like about myself and put it on my mirror.
73. Create an Annual Scrapbook Template and use it!
74. If someone could describe you in 10 words what would you want those words to be? Write them down and read them every day this week. See if you really are living up to those words.
75. Wear a skirt or dress for an entire week.
76. Find a favourite piece of poetry – frame it, hang it.
77. Go on an op-shopping adventure with a friend.
78. Choose a photo of me and a friend. Write something on the back and send it to them telling them why I like the picture
79. Lay on a blanket with my kids and watch the clouds. Ask the kids what they see?
80. Finish my 365 days of photos challenge.
81. Make a gift for a friend, just because.
82. Make a reusable Advent Calendar.
84. Go outside in the rain and get really wet. Take the kids. Look at the rain. Look at the colours.
85. Do a Marketing Course.
86. Create an "old magazine" creation.
87. Make a time capsule.
88. Create an area in your home that is just for my ‘creative space’ – maybe a corner with a chair in it or a whole room!
89. "Kidnap" Rockchick from school one day and go roller skating.
90. Buy a tabletop card holder and fill it with photos.
91. Create a craft box for the kids and pull it out at least once a month.
92. Have a romantic candle lit dinner for two.
93.
94. Write a letter to myself as if I was 70.
95. Have a family meal by candlelight.
96. Embroider a favourite quote. Hang it in my office.
97. Make Gloop
98. Plant a tree.
99. Let the kids decide the dinner menu one night, help them to make it, set the table and decorate it with whatever they want.
100. Read over my notebook and feel fantastic about everything I have achieved.
101. Buy my next notebook, and start my next list.
