99 in 999: The Beginning

I mentioned the other week that I am going to try to complete 99 goals in 999 days.  Well, I finally finished my list!  I have divided up my list into several categories for the convenience of both of us!

Things to do:

1.     Go to a 30 Seconds to Mars concert

2.     Go to a Grizzly Bear concert

3.     Participate in a shop hop

4.     Start a Project Life

5.     Open an Etsy shop

6.     Have business cards

7.     Attend Sewing Summit

8.     Go Parasailing or paragliding

9.     Fold a thousand paper cranes to make a sincere wish. According to Japanese legend, if you fold 1000 paper cranes, you get to make a wish.

10. Go stargazing 5 times with the Star Walk app

11. Have a photography shoot at a factory

12. Spend time photographing my favorite factory

13. Make 72 hour kits

14. Make a friend who is a quilter

15. Take a Craftsy class

16. Have lunch/dinner with someone from High School

17. Print Instagram photos

18. Make my own stationary

19. Have a stamp professionally made

20. Have dinner with Jake’s parents and mine

21. Meet Breanna’s baby boy

22. Buy fruit/vegetables at a farmer’s market

23. Give only handmade birthday gifts for a year

24. Make s’mores

25. Make chocolate chip pancakes

26. Sell a quilt to someone I don't know

27. Get my childhood bracelet fixed

28. Participate in a food co-op

29. Take a dance class with Jake

30. Maintain a bonsai tree

31. Make a six piece collection of paintings

Quilt and Sewing things:

32. Write a quilt pattern

33. Make a quilt for each month of the year

34. Host/co-host a quilt along

35. Make a quilt for mom

36. Make mom a pillow to match her quilt

37. Make a City Sampler quilt

38. Go to Quilt Market

39. Make a Weekender Bag (or similar)

40. Make color coordinated scrap boxes (you can see Amanda's scrap boxes on the top of her shelf here!)

41. Sew a summer wardrobe

a.     10 dresses

b.     7 skirts

c.      15 shirts

42. Make a quilt for our bed

43. Make an Outfox the Fox quilt

44. Sew curtains for the kitchen

45. Make ruffle pillows for couch

46. Bind a quilt with scrappy binding

47. Make Jake a quilt

48. Put up a design wall

49. Submit a quilt pattern to Quilty

Things to own:

50. Buy bikes for Jake and I

51. Own every song Passion Pit ever released

52. Add 10 more crystals to my collection

53. Add 5 more pieces to my Lenox collection

54. Own a pair of gold flats

55. Own a shirt made by Jay McCarroll

56. Start a collection of vintage buttons

57. Buy another work of art

58. Own a Marc Jacobs bag

Places to go:

59. Go to Oregon

60. Go to Disneyland

61. Go to the zoo

62. Take Jake to Six Flags over Texas

63. Go camping

64. Visit Canada

65. Go to the planetarium

66. Go to Zion’s national park

67. Go to the state fair and eat cotton candy

Things to learn:

68. Make/can jam

69. Learn how to use Illustrator

70. Learn how to screen print

71. Learn printmaking

72. Learn how to knit socks

73. Learn how to quilt feathers

74. Learn how to make gnocchi

75. Learn how to make dark chocolate sea salt caramel fudge

76. Learn how to sew with knits

For the home:

77. Make the bed for 30 days straight

78. Grow a garden

79. Organize important documents and files

80. De-clutter something once a month

81. Finish painting/decorating the master bedroom

82. Unpack the boxes in the basement

83. Remodel the spare bathroom

84. Put Christmas lights on the house

Personal goals:

85. Be consistent in an exercise routine for 60 days.

86. Be sugar free for 30 days

87. Use the DSLR every day for 90 days

88. Get up at 6am 5 days a week for two months

89. Spend time drawing every day for a month

90. Develop my alias (who doesn't have an alias?)

91. Avoid fast food for a month

92. Have a new list of 99 goals at the end of the 999 days

Religious things:

93. Read Jesus the Christ

94. Attend all the temples in Utah

95. Read the Old Testament cover-to-cover

96. Read the New Testament cover-to-cover

97. Bare my testimony of the Savior to a stranger/acquaintance

98. Subscribe to the Ensign

99. Visit Temple Square Christmas lights

So, as I accomplish each of my 99 goals, I plan on blogging about it and keeping a record.  The end

the 999 days is March 5, 2016 (that will be our 5th wedding anniversary!) and at that time, for every goal I have accomplished I will donate a dollar to the Utah Humane Society.  I'm really excited about this and I hope that this challenge helps me get some things done that I really want to do!  I hope you'll follow my adventure!

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