OK, apparently a couple of you want to see this too. This is long, I'm afraid, since I don't know off any way to make cuts in WordPress.
Edited to add: Sorry about the weirdness at number 8, I'm not especially happy about that task, it's just a weird WordPress formatting thing but there's no way that I'm going to change the numbering on the other 100 just to get rid of it.
101 THINGS LIST
1) Apply to Axis
2) Assemble garden bench and chain to railings in garden
3) Assemble new wheelbarrow
4) Be mentioned in [AN] Magazine
5) Buy a digital SLR
6) Buy and put up nesting boxes
7) Buy binoculars
8) Clear out and organise shed
9) Complete 4 thread drawings
10) Complete 8 UFO's for the L&V Finish-a-thon
11) Complete the Paying It Forward Exchange
12) Create a promotional pack for Pin Ritual
13) Declutter and re-organise Cupboard of Doom
14) Declutter laundry room
15) Decorate middle floor hallway
16) Develop and perform Red Thread
17) Do 50 drawings to sell
18) Donate £100 to British Heart Foundation
19) Exhibit in London
20) Exhibit The Diary Project
21) Finish & post Mart's box
22) Finish Gemma's jewellery
23) Finish organising study
24) Finish Pelt
25) Finish re-organising studio
26) Finish shoalwater shawl in time for wedding
27) Finish the research on the house
28) Finish watching Farscape
29) Finish watching Nowhere Man
30) Fix email problem
31) Frame and post Jeanne's picture
32) Frame and post Mart's picture
33) Get big bedroom decorated
34) Get damaged corner in library fixed
35) Get front door painted
36) Get more Moo cards
37) Get my hallmark
38) Get new coil fitted
39) Get notecards made from my art
40) Get over 100 in my Technorati rank
41) Get spinning wheel fixed
42) Get windows renovated
43) Go and see a ballet
44) Go on a picnic
45) Go whalewatching
46) Hem grey trousers
47) Host a tea party
48) Install hanging rail or brackets in studio
49) Invent a new cake
50) Keep a daily log for a year
51) Knit Cat's jumper
52) Learn how to do the more complicated polaroid transfers
53) Learn how to use my medium format camera
54) Learn to follow crochet patterns
55) Learn to spin
56) Lose a stone
57) Make a ‘where things are stored’ database
58) Make a book of The Diary Project
59) Make a limited edition artist's book
60) Make a new will
61) Make and send CD of wedding photos to Z. and G.
62) Make Butterfly Mind
63) Meet up with Siobhan
64) Organise Australia trip
65) Organise registration info
66) Paint outside of study door
67) Paint railings
68) Pay back J.
69) Perform Pin Ritual again
70) Plant a border with bulbs
71) Put £500 in my savings account
72) Remake and photograph 'Annunciation'
73) Renew passport
74) Reorganise the kitchen cupboards
75) Replant my herb pots
76) Rescan the earlier envelopes at high res
77) Save up £1000 for a new computer
78) Sell 5 pieces of artwork
79) Sell a piece of jewellery
80) Simplify my email folders
81) Sort out family lawyer stuff
82) Sort out Irene's picture
83) Submit my work to Fiberarts Magazine
84) Swim in the sea
85) Take or pay someone to take good photos of my recent artwork
86) Take part in 6 exhibitions
87) Test the plastic etching process
88) Tidy and clean under kitchen sink
89) Update descriptions on Flickr
90) Update my art archive
91) Use or get rid of the pile of slate in the garden
92) Visit a waterfall
93) Visit Achnahaird
94) Visit Hay-on-Wye
95) Visit Ireland
96) Visit Red in Amsterdam
97) Visit Roslin Chapel
98) Visit The Bath Museum of Costume
99) Visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford
100) Watch Season 3 of Veronica Mars
101) Write up the knitted brick pattern
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I was most amused to discover yesterday that I'd apparently started a 101 Things list last May. I didn't remember ever having seen the meme before, let alone writing a list with 50 things on it. It was fascinating to see how many things I've already done (only 7 unfortunately), what made it to the final list and what I no longer feel the need to do. It's obvious already that these lists can change in quite a short time, so you need to stay fluid during the process.
It was especially interesting to notice that a couple of things that I thought were completely off the wall when I wrote them on the final list were also on the earlier one - apparently I have a much deeper desire to go swimming in the sea than I realised.
Well, that's it for goals for the time being but I'll probably do monthly updates on how I'm doing, just to keep myself on track. Oh, and if you can help out with any of these goals - especially the exhibition related ones - please do feel free. Indeed, I'm entirely reliant on you all linking to me in order to achieve No. 40 (Get over 100 in my Technorati rank) - but don't worry, I won't be asking you to come round and clear out my cupboards!
Sister Diane
I can't thank you enough for sharing your entire process of musing and artistic exploration for setting your goals. It's been very inspiring.
This list, though! It makes me tired! I realized, reading your list, that I have a To-Do List Threshhold: if it's less than ten items, I'll charge it like a bull and get it all done. But lists longer than that make me play Solitaire on my computer. :-)
Sister Diane
I can't thank you enough for sharing your entire process of musing and artistic exploration for setting your goals. It's been very inspiring.
This list, though! It makes me tired! I realized, reading your list, that I have a To-Do List Threshhold: if it's less than ten items, I'll charge it like a bull and get it all done. But lists longer than that make me play Solitaire on my computer. :-)
Kirsty Hall
Ha, today it's making me tired too!
It's good to know where your own list tolerance is. I do a weekly list and it's absolutely never allowed to go longer than a sheet of printed A4 paper. Since I space things out and separate them into sections, it works out at about a maximum of 40 things. I also do a daily handwritten list that I try to keep at about 10 things and I don't beat myself up when things invariably don't get done: I've got 11 things on today's list and so far, I've only done one. To quote Pirates Of The Caribbean, my lists are 'more sort of guidelines, really'.
Writing this, I realise that I sound like a complete list addict, ah well, the truth will out, I guess.
Kirsty
Post authorHa, today it's making me tired too!
It's good to know where your own list tolerance is. I do a weekly list and it's absolutely never allowed to go longer than a sheet of printed A4 paper. Since I space things out and separate them into sections, it works out at about a maximum of 40 things. I also do a daily handwritten list that I try to keep at about 10 things and I don't beat myself up when things invariably don't get done: I've got 11 things on today's list and so far, I've only done one. To quote Pirates Of The Caribbean, my lists are 'more sort of guidelines, really'.
Writing this, I realise that I sound like a complete list addict, ah well, the truth will out, I guess.
Lyn Foley
Don't know how I found a link to your site, but thank you. I am very inspired, and even though I have not started a 101 things list, I did start, a blog (actually 2 blogs) and got my butt in gear on some other projects. Love your diary project, and if I could be the source of publishing it, I would.
Thank you
Lyn
Lyn Foley
Don't know how I found a link to your site, but thank you. I am very inspired, and even though I have not started a 101 things list, I did start, a blog (actually 2 blogs) and got my butt in gear on some other projects. Love your diary project, and if I could be the source of publishing it, I would.
Thank you
Lyn
Lindsay
your list wears me out! eeeek!
Lindsay
your list wears me out! eeeek!
Tay
Thanks so much for showing us your list. Quite brave and inspiring to boot! It's good to remember that this is a list for a long period of time, nearly 3 years! Otherwise, just reading it, I am overwhelmed. I will be following your updates with interest.
While attracted to the project, with my current health stuff, I am hesitant to make such a list myself. I'm feeling hyper-aware of the pitfalls of "the best laid plans" thing. If anything, I am trying to just get more comfortable with the flow of life. I really like the notion of "all positive"...everything does boil down to how one looks at it, ya know.
I think you, your art and the list is brilliant and wish you many, many items happily crossed off.
Tay
Thanks so much for showing us your list. Quite brave and inspiring to boot! It's good to remember that this is a list for a long period of time, nearly 3 years! Otherwise, just reading it, I am overwhelmed. I will be following your updates with interest.
While attracted to the project, with my current health stuff, I am hesitant to make such a list myself. I'm feeling hyper-aware of the pitfalls of "the best laid plans" thing. If anything, I am trying to just get more comfortable with the flow of life. I really like the notion of "all positive"...everything does boil down to how one looks at it, ya know.
I think you, your art and the list is brilliant and wish you many, many items happily crossed off.
Rebecca
What a list! I was just listening to a podcast last night over at the accidental creative that talked about list making. If you are not familiar with Todd Henry and his accidentalcreative.com you should really check him out. He gives great direction when it comes to list making and much more.
Rebecca
What a list! I was just listening to a podcast last night over at the accidental creative that talked about list making. If you are not familiar with Todd Henry and his accidentalcreative.com you should really check him out. He gives great direction when it comes to list making and much more.
Kirsty Hall
Hi Lindsay, sometimes I look at it and it wears me out a bit too but I crossed the first thing off it today, so that made me feel a bit better. It's not about doing them all at once, just about giving myself a push to complete those things that I've been finding it hard to get done.
Kirsty
Post authorHi Lindsay, sometimes I look at it and it wears me out a bit too but I crossed the first thing off it today, so that made me feel a bit better. It's not about doing them all at once, just about giving myself a push to complete those things that I've been finding it hard to get done.
Kirsty Hall
Hi Tay, thanks for your kind words about my work. I know what you mean about health and the overwhelm factor, both things I struggle with a lot. I have to keep reminding myself that it is over a longer time period than I'm used to and also that it's just a guideline to keep me on track and it's OK if some of them don't get done.
Kirsty
Post authorHi Tay, thanks for your kind words about my work. I know what you mean about health and the overwhelm factor, both things I struggle with a lot. I have to keep reminding myself that it is over a longer time period than I'm used to and also that it's just a guideline to keep me on track and it's OK if some of them don't get done.
Kirsty Hall
Hi Rebecca, yes I listen to the Accidental Creative on occasion. I often find it a little bit corporate for my taste but there is some good stuff on there and I'll definitely have to check out the one on lists.
Kirsty
Post authorHi Rebecca, yes I listen to the Accidental Creative on occasion. I often find it a little bit corporate for my taste but there is some good stuff on there and I'll definitely have to check out the one on lists.
cally
I'd be very happy to help you tick off 44 and 97 on the same day. Not that I go in anymore, the hiked the admission price big time since the book, but i can sit near the chapel with a picnic ready to save you from getting fleeced in the cafe as well :0)
Right, I'm off to remind Mr. P about the piles of slates we have each amassed in our own gardens that need used. A girl on freecycle wants 6 but never seems to come and get them. I have a little fantasy about having real tiles on my shed roof.c
cally
I'd be very happy to help you tick off 44 and 97 on the same day. Not that I go in anymore, the hiked the admission price big time since the book, but i can sit near the chapel with a picnic ready to save you from getting fleeced in the cafe as well :0)
Right, I'm off to remind Mr. P about the piles of slates we have each amassed in our own gardens that need used. A girl on freecycle wants 6 but never seems to come and get them. I have a little fantasy about having real tiles on my shed roof.c
Kirsty Hall
Hi Cally, that sounds great - I'd definitely love to get together. I don't think that I'll be up in Scotland until July/August so I'll let you know nearer the time.
I think I'm going to make a slate border with my pile and maybe a sculpture if I can be bothered. I quite fancy a tower of them, they have holes in them so I could probably stabilise them with some steel rods or something similar. I did even have fantasies about making a water feature with copper piping coming up through the holes but that might be a little ambitious considering that I don't usually make that sort of sculpture. Sometimes I think that as artists, 'our eyes are bigger than our stomachs', as my mother used to say.
Kirsty
Post authorHi Cally, that sounds great - I'd definitely love to get together. I don't think that I'll be up in Scotland until July/August so I'll let you know nearer the time.
I think I'm going to make a slate border with my pile and maybe a sculpture if I can be bothered. I quite fancy a tower of them, they have holes in them so I could probably stabilise them with some steel rods or something similar. I did even have fantasies about making a water feature with copper piping coming up through the holes but that might be a little ambitious considering that I don't usually make that sort of sculpture. Sometimes I think that as artists, 'our eyes are bigger than our stomachs', as my mother used to say.
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Lesley Bricknell
I had a yellow smiley on my new wordpress blog recently it was on '2008' (I think these smileys like '8's!) Go to Settings/Writing and uncheck the emoticon box. That should do the trick and you won't have to re-write your list.
Lesley
Lesley Bricknell
I had a yellow smiley on my new wordpress blog recently it was on '2008' (I think these smileys like '8's!) Go to Settings/Writing and uncheck the emoticon box. That should do the trick and you won't have to re-write your list.
Lesley