song of the day - La Vie Boheme by the cast of RENT
Hi
I've had a bit of a blogger-life crisis, and I've decided to just take it back to the beginning. After thinking about it for a while I finally decided to just wipe the slate clean. I'll still be blogging about anything and everything (OOTD's, books, lifestyle, beauty, etc), but hopefully more often than I have been doing in the past six months.
I've been feeling a little uninspired lately, so to get myself motivated I started searching for various challenges online. I've done a few small challenges in the past, and participated in
GISHWHES for the past three years, but this time I wanted something a little longer. Something to give myself goals, and that I know I can do complete.
So I found
101 things in 1001 days, which is a project that was set up in 2009 challenging people to create a list of 101 things to do within 1001 days, and I've decided to take on this challenge with my own list. I'm starting the challenge today 20/3/2014, and it will finish on 15/12/2016.
As you can see below my list isn't complete yet, so if you have any ideas I'd be grateful (list completed 25/4/2014).
(date) means the task is complete, and the date is was completed on.
complete 33/101
Here's my list
- Take 101 related photos with my canon. (101/101) (5/15)
- Take 10 related photos with my instax. (10/10) (6/14) click-a-day
- Complete a alphabet photo series. (0/26)
- Take pictures in a photo booth.
- Get a new lens for my camera. 25/12/14 (christmas present from my brother)
- Photograph a day in my life (must have at least 10 photos).
- Take a photo of a place through all four seasons. (1/4)
- Complete a photography challenge. (30/6/14) click-a-day
- Take a young me-now me photo.
- Make a year in pictures collage in January 2015. (5/1/15)
- Take a self portrait once a month for the duration of the challenge. (1/34) failed
- Draw everyday for one month.
- Draw outside.
- Sew something. 9/10/14
- Enter 5 creative competitions. (3/5)
- Organise my art supplies. Get rid of anything I don't need.
- Create an inspiration board.
- Create a photo wall. 8/14
- Complete my Wreck This Journal.
- Go to Manchester Craft & Design Centre, and Fred Aldous and buy something as a reward for organising my art supplies. (0/2)
- Complete 5 pinterest DIY projects. (4/5)
- Compete in GISHWHES at least one more time. 9/8/14
- Read a self help book.
- Choose 10 countries and read a book by an author from each. (0/10)
- Read at least 10 books from the ALA 100 most frequently banned/challenged books list. (2/10) (of mice and men, animal farm)
- Take part in bout of books (next bout starts 12/5). 12-18/5/14 blog post
- Finish reading Notes from Underground, Flatland, and The Prince. (0/3)
- Memorise a poem.
- Read 10,000 pages. (10,000/10,000) 6/15
- Leave a note inside a book for someone to find.
- Take a free online class.
- Learn to knit. 10/14
- Knit a scarf. 20/12/14
- Take a first aid class.
- See a film by myself.
- Have a John Hughes movie marathon.
- Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet. (0/26)
- Watch 5 foreign language films. (0/5)
- Watch Breaking Bad.
- Watch all 5 seasons of In The House. (5/5) 7/4/14
- Rewatch Sister, Sister. 30/3/14
- Rewatch Smart Guy (I'm recapturing my youth). 5/4/14
- Go to the beach. twice. (0/2)
- Visit a lake. Take pictures.
- Go on a nature walk.
- Go to 5 different museums/galleries. (4/5)
- Attend some sort of festival. 9/10/14
- Go out of the England.
- Go to Sea Life.
- Visit a castle. 1/5/14 Blog post
- Visit someplace haunted.
- Visit a zoo.
- Make a list of 50 places I would like to visit in my lifetime. (10/50)
- Dance in the rain. (3/15)
- Go a month without drinking fizzy pop.
- Stay out of Greggs for a month. 7/14
- Eat at Missoula in Manchester.
- Go to Room Four Desserts. 3/12/14 Instagram post
- Have a picnic.
- Have afternoon tea.
- Try 5 new foods. (3/5) Barburrito 3/7/14
- Bake cupcakes. 22/5/14 Blog post
- Bake a cake for someone else (helping my mum bake a cake counts). 6/14
- Make a homemade pizza.
- Learn to eat with chopsticks.
- Open a cookbook to a random page and make whatever is on it.
- Make Piñata Cookies.
- Run a marathon.
- Walk home from Barnardo's every other day that I volunteer. 1/9/14
- Get a job. 4/9/14
- Learn to cash up.
- Redesign my blog. Either by myself, or pay someone to do it. 20/3/14
- Blog at least once a week. (failed)
- Blog for 7 days in a row.
- Attend a fashion week event.
- Attend a literary event.
- List 101 things that make me happy. (0/101)
- Do 10 random acts of kindness. (10/10) 9/5/14
- Watch the sun rise and se on the same day. 7/4/14
- Get rid of 101 things (clothing, books, dvds, etc, things that can be donated). (90/101)
- Send a secret to postsecret.
- Answer the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind".
- Don't buy anything from Primark for a month (x2) (2/2) June 2014 Jan 2015
- Don't cut my hair for 12 months. (12/12) 31/12/14
- Save up for a new macbook. 28/7/14
- Build a house of cards.
- Learn all the words to Rappers Delight by The Sugarhill Gang.
- Buy some mendi. Go wild.
- Create a budget and stick to it for a month. (2/15)
- Give money to a street musician.
- Make an iTunes playlist of 101 of my favorite songs.
- Sort out both of my desks, and keep them that way for 3 months.
- Complete 7 goals in a week.
- Learn how to make origami cranes.
- Write a list of 101 things I’ve already achieved in this lifetime.
- Carve a pumpkin for Halloween.
- Complete an entire Sudoku book.
- Make a daisy chain.
- Make a new friend. 1/5/14
- Try a basic meditation technique. 22/7/14
- Donate 50,000 grains on freerice.com. (500/50,000)
You can keep up to date with how I'm doing by checking out this post, and I'll also do a few posts along the way. Wish me luck!
