creating dreams come true

I really feel like I'm up for some new challenges this year. 

One thing that I have decided to do, although I'm about three weeks late into the year-long project, is "creating dreams come true: a creative adventure".  You can read more about it HERE. It is being hosted by Andrea of ABCcreativity.  (Let me know if you decide to participate, please!)  I'm going to play catch-up for a few days and then I'll post on Sundays like many of the other participants. 

Unless you read about it, this list won't make any sense.  That's okay.  I don't mind if you skip it.  There will be more of the usual business around here soon. 

An aside: The list will eventually reach 100.  I will add to it throughout the year. 

1. Re-learn and advance my crocheting skills.
2. Spend more time with my family.
3. Create a morning self-care routine. 
4. Create an evening self-care routine.
5. Hike Gibraltar repeatedly in 2010, and whenever possible thereafter.
6. Learn more about photography. 
7. *the crow collaberation*
8. Collaberate with Thicket.
9. Get "Hold Inquiry" up and running online.
10. Work towards my dream home by remodeling, painting, and styling.
11. Create a book for Grandma Anderson about Grandma and Grandpa Anderson.
12. Purge excess from house.
13. Wake up earlier.
14. Expand the garden.
15. Learn to can and freeze more of my garden bounty.
16. Share my perennials with others each spring.
17. Treat myself to luxuries.
18. Create a business model.
19. Um, create a business?!
20. Figure out what I am and am not willing to do with my creative endeavors.
21. Participate in 15/15 or 365/365 with Christie.
22. Update and pimp shop.
23. Try to read a novel each month.
24. Work out an efficient bill-paying system.
25. Make a financial plan for savings and daughter's college.
26. Dedicate 1-2 hours to myself each day.
27. Make journaling a habit.
28. Expand my vegan (possibly gluten-free) menu.
29. Eat out less.
30. Update website.
31. Travel to Denmark.
32. Travel to Sweden regularly.
33. Visit Newfoundland.
34. Take yearly month-long retreats in the North woods of Wisconsin.  (Thoreau-style)
35. Finish a few of my ongoing projects.
36. Learn Swedish. 
37. Visit a state park at least once a month.
38. Embrace camping again.
39. Meet up with local-ish friends.
40. Help X reach for her dreams.
41. Get a bike that I can ride in a dress, preferably with a basket.
42. Read the paper with breakfast ... instead of emails and blogs. 
43. Don't feel guilty about setting aside time for emails and blogs.
44. Snap more photos with film.
45. Get a new DSLR.
46. Acquire more lenses. 
47. Buy an awesome video camera. 
48. Find a nice piano accordian, preferably the Blue one that used to be at the music store in Baraboo.
49. Do more advocacy for type I (juvenile-onset) diabetes.
50. Contribute to the family income by doing what I love without feeling guilty for selling what I do.
51. Come to peace with promoting myself and submitting work, then doing it.
52. Make mixed-media documentaries.
53. Take regular walks for no particular reason except the experience. 
54. Always let the people that I care about know how much that they mean to me.
55. Organize the pieces of my daughter's childhood into something meaningful and efficient, like a set of bound journals. 
56. Get a massage and/or cranio-sacral work done at least monthly.
57. Do the daily Sudoku. 
58. Grow Lilies of the Valley, which I've had trouble with thus far FOR VERY GOOD REASONS.
59. Throw our daughter a wonderful graduation-slash-18th-birthday-party in June. 
60. Practice piano and get a bit better. 
61. Have my own violin again. 
62. To shamelessly own a Saab again.
63. Visit the Grand Canyon. 
64. Go to Maine. 
65. Always strive. 
66. Be gentle to everyone and myself.
67. Learn how to handbind simple books.
68. Make some handbound journals and/or books.
69. Expand my website design skills.  Or hire someone else to do it.