Another idea I am stealing this year is 52 weeks of To Do! Here is my list of 52 things I want to accomplish this year:
1. Photograph the same spot on the 11th and 25th of every month
Scratch #1: not happening this year
2. Scrapbook one weekend for 8 hours
3. Go to a Temple and take pictures
Mar 27: Walk & Temple
4. Take pictures for one day and scrapbook them ALL the next day
5. Finish a journal - daily writing
6. Create my own camera strap for my camera
7. Create a tutorial on my blog for making that camera strap
8. Create my own iPod bean bag
9. Create a tutorial on my blog for making that bean bag
10. Go to Tokyo
No pictures.
11. Mail 5 boxes to my deployed husband
12. Find a new Shrine for cherry blossom pictures
Pictures coming.
13. Spend a day with just Kyler
14. Spend a day with just Lori
15. Spend a day with just A
16. Spend a day by myself
17. Do a week-in-the-life project
18. Learn to make a new dinner
Tamagoyaki on rice
19. Learn to bake a new dessert
20. Do not go to Yokosuka for one week
21. Quilt everyday for a week
22. Have all my laundry done (washed, folded, and put away), for one day
23. Read a new book by an author I've never read before
24. Go electronic-less for one full day
25. Go electronic-less for one full weekend
26. Teach Lori a new art craft/skill
Mar 14: Cross Stitch
Pictures coming soon.
27. Teach myself a new art craft/skill
28. Blog a-day-in-the-life-of us (homeschool day)
29. Blog a-day-in-the-life-of us (non-homeschool day)
30. Catalog all of my digital pictures
31. Catch up on 2010 scrapbooking
32. Catch up on 2009 scrapbooking
33. Catch up on 2008 scrapbooking
34. Create my own quilt pattern
35. Make my own quilt
36. Take family portraits
37. Learn to make croissants
38. Write my husband a letter a week (snail mail) while he is deployed
39. Go to Zushi beach for fire works
40. Go to the Big Buddha
Mar 27: Temple post & me
41. Learn how to knit
42. Take pictures at a shrine
43. Use my food dehydrator once a month
Jan: check
Feb: nope
Mar: don't see it happening
Apr: nope....again
44. Create a rotating 3-month menu
We'll see....
45. Read the kids a Christmas book a week
46. Find the perfect homemade pizza recipe
March 14: still searching and trying
47. Take the train on all outings for 1 month (minus 2-4 commissary trips with neighbors)
48. Go Christmas shopping in July
49. Go to Tokyo Disneyland
Mar 29: Unexpected Result
50. Rearrange my linen closet, and keep doing it until I find something that works
Linen closet
51. Make homemade Christmas ornaments
52. Create 4 tree patterns