Friday, June 28, 2024

101 Things in 1001 Days

 1) Make chicken broth from scratch--Just found a recipe that uses juniper berries.  Sounds divine. 

2) Make a poptart house--The new gingerbread house! 

3) Make your own lantern festival--A fun craft with tissue paper and bottoms of soda bottles. 

4) Make a butter board or a butter candle--Sounds like delicious fun! 

5) Read the Book of Mormon again--A traditional 101 goal now. 

6) Have a Christmas campout--An indoor campout under Christmas light stars. 

7) Do the "It Takes a Village" advent calendar--a service advent calendar to count down Christmas.

8) Get and read the latest AP style book--The language of journalism.  I want to learn! 

9) Make rainbow wooden blocks--Another lovely craft. 

10) Write for Bella Grace--A beautiful feel-good magazine. 

11) Do the December Photo Challenge-Another fun advent calendar. 

12) Collect some dolls and donate to Memory Lane in Sunshine Terrace or Capsa--Love dolls and ways to give charity with dolls. 

13) Have a fall brown sugar festival--My favorite flavor of them all! 

14) Make muffins for a local fire station--A RAK that sounded fun.  

15) Make silver pipe cleaner trees and felt angels.--A vintage Christmas craft

16) Sing in the Echo Tunnel--A place in our favorite park with great acoustics 

17) Go to Riverton Pool-A favorite place as a kid 

18) Study Joseph Smith's life and teachings and write a paper.-A gospel study I've been wanting to do.

19) Make a set of peg dolls-Another fun craft. 

20) Prepare a Christmas box like Uncle Carl--My great uncle made Christmas boxes that were the stuff of legends. 

21) Celebrate Black History Month--Plan to learn about one famous black person every day. 

22) Make a tin of butter cookies--Found a recipe! 

23) Sing Ave Maria--Such a beautiful song! 

24) Paint rocks--A happy pastime! 

25) Create a treasure hunt somewhere around town--I love to create surprises and magic! 

26) Make a junk journal--Another fun craft! 

27) Make a dandelion chain--Always wanted to try that. 

28) Make homemade maple bars--Always wanted to try that too. 

29) Go to Hot Lakes in La Grande for soaking in the hot springs and a movie.--bucket list! 

30) Make the vanilla peach pie--A peach pie with vanilla bean specs in the pie dough. 

31) Make flower cupcakes--practice cake decorating skills! 

32) Make homemade postcards--Make them out of my pictures 

33) Make something fun out of an altoid tin with Adam--Been trying to do this one for awhile.  Going to make it this time! 

34) Write a magical realism story--One of my favorite genres! 

35) Get a mammogram.--enough said. 

36) Read the collection of Emotional Health conference talks--A collection someone put on Etsy. 

37) Make five of my "top recipe" pins from Pinterest--Making my way through all of them! 

38) Make a quilt--still want to do my 100 Women quilt. 

39) Have 4 seasonal comfort days--Relaxation and comfort in its finest form.  

40) Learn a hymn in sign language.--So cool! 

41) Make homemade napkins--enough said. :) 

42) Pay a more generous fast offering for a year--an important part of my church's worship. 

43) Cozy Cottage Art Challenge--A positively delightful challenge! 

44) Make Alice Water's turkey--A lovely recipe!

45) Have a focaccia bread art night--So much fun! 

46) Bake and decorate a bakery style cake--Always wanted to try this too! 

47) Play all the hymns in the simplified hymn book--I keep wanting to learn the piano 

48) Make a Sesame Street food tray--Sesame Street is a childhood comfort show and this sounded so fun! 

49) Paint 3 pictures--Keep wanting to improve! 

50) Go canoeing--Never been! 

51) Do 101 temple ordinances for the dead--Loved this goal last time, want to do it again! 

52) Find a primary care doctor and have a physical every year. 

53) Make a fish dish--Huge fan of fish and would love to cook with it more! 

54) Make miniature evergreen wreaths--A fun Pinterest craft. 

55) Learn to cut fancy snowflakes--Always wanted to be good at that! 

56) Do the 6 step glow-up challenge--Another fun Pinterest challenge

57) Do a summer library reading challenge--Haven't done one of those for awhile! 

58) Decorate an old Fisher Price house as a Christmas house.--A fun thing I saw on Pinterest! 

59) Make homemade Popsicles with Max for pool time in La Grande.--I love time with my aunt in the summer! 

60) Write about my health crisis in 2022.--Been feeling the need to do that for awhile. 

61) Make a doll-I love dolls.  I thought it would be fun to have my artist sister design and paint the face! 

62) Do a study on grace and write a paper--Another story I've wanted to do. 

63) Have a marmalade day--A delightful idea from Paddington. 

64) Create a cinnamon roll recipe--stay tuned! 

65) Have a sidewalk paint party--similar to Bert in Mary Poppins

66) Write 3 poems celebrating life--a medium I haven't tried too much.  

67) Make graham crackers, animal crackers, and cheese crackers--Okay, I like crackers. 

68) Participate in Operation Ornaments--A wonderful charitable organizaton. 

69) Rent the telescope from the library--Always wanted to! 

70) Go to puppy yoga--At Elevation Rock gym! Can't wait! 

71) Organize a Jimmy Fallon game night for Blake Bash--So fun, stay tuned! 

72) Organize a Scout office reunion-for any of my office peeps reading this, pie will be involved. 

73) Make the dollhouse Adam gave me--Maybe put in some electric lights! 

74) Barbecue hamburgers--something that has always scared me a bit! 

75) Create a recipe with Mom--Sounded like fun! 

76) Make blessing bags to hand out to panhandlers. --Would love to include my family in this. 

77) Make mini lemon and apple orchards--gardening crafts! 

78) Make 52 sparkle sticks for people--My favorite craft! 

79) Take 101 walks/hikes--Another must for my list. 

80) Make five real fruit snowcone syrups--Lime has to be among them! 

81) Create a purple raspberry pie recipe--gonna die over it! 

82) Submit a recipe to Gooseberry Patch--You never know! 

83) Submit a story to LDS Living--the actual magazine

84: Have a cul-de-sac rootbeer fest--Stay tuned neighbors! 

85) Redo my doll cabnet--I got a beautiful doll clothes closet and I am restoring it. 

86) Have a dentist appointment every six months--gotta do it! 

87) Have a Bella Grace list and fulfill it--They have such beautiful ideas! 

88) Read the animals book-a beautiful and informative book about animals. 

89) Go to La Grande drive-in--Haven't been in years! 

90) Watch the list of the 12 Ted Talks that will change your life--excited to hear. 

91) Make Jackson's from Gilmore Girls raspberry peach jam and his smores--a fun summer activity. 

92) Create a moon garden--Bucket list! The flowers come out at night. 

93) Do little gifts in the Christmas boxes for someone--A fun idea of wrapping little presents and hiding them in the Christmas boxes after everything is put away, to be discovered next year. 

94) Do a Gold Rush activity with the kids--Such a fun idea! 

95) Pick huckleberries on Mt Emily--can't wait! 

96) Clean and vacuum out my car every month for a year--trying to do better! 

97) Paint blown Easter eggs.  Always loved doing this as a kid. 

98) Reread The Work and the Glory books--excited! 

99) Make a doll dress--I'm thinking a white dress with a blue satin sash. 

100) Cook through the Honest Pretzel book--a sweet cookbook with simple dishes! 

101) Get a keratin treatment on my hair--at Leilain't salon.