My 101 list - sticky post - scroll down for tasks completed

New Day Zero - 20th January 2009
My end date is Tuesday, 18 October 2011

I love this idea of choosing 101 things to do over the next 1001 days.Much better than New Year Resolutions, and fitting that I found this site

The 1001 Day Project

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined.
Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year's resolutions.
The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
Some common goal setting tips:
1. Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
2. Stay Focused. Any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. Constantly evaluate your progress.
3. Welcome Failure. Frequently, very little is learned from a venture that did not experience failure in some form. Failure presents the opportunity to learn and makes the success more worthy.
4. Write down your goals. It clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
5. Keep your goals in sight. Review them frequently, and ensure that they are always at the forefront of your thinking.

My List
1. Finish reading War & Peace
2. Learn to crochet
3.. Learn to make soap
4. Paint my Buddhist Mani Stone
5.. Read Dante's Divine Comedy
6.. Write my MA dissertation, even though it's too late to hand it in now
7. Spend a night star-gazing
8. Take a Hopi-Ear candling course
9. Learn sign language
10. Write my '1001 things to do before I die' list
11. Write my will
12. Catalogue all my books
13. Go back to Venice
14 Go back to Rome, this time with my husband
15. Work on my Family Tree : research, compile tree, photos & stories ...
16. Make a family scrapbook
17. Move house
18. Strip & re varnish the sewing table I inherited from my Mum
19. Strip, re varnish & re upholster the rocking chair I inherited from my Mum
20. Organise a Family Picnic
21. Sleep under the stars
22. Watch a sunrise on the beach
23. Dance in the rain
24. Go snorkeling
25. Go to an open air performance of Shakespeare
26. Walk around Chester Roman walls again
27. Take part in the Playtex Moonwalk Half Marathon in 2011
28. Buy the perfect little black dress
29. Go to a day spa
30 Buy a pair of diamond earrings
31. Scan all the old photos
32. make a snowwoman
33. Go to a concert 9/5/09
34 Go to an opera
35. Watch Wales play rugby at the Millennium Stadium again
36. Read all the books in Milton's Paradise Lost
37.Create a work of art
38. Go tobogganing
39 Re-read all Shakespeare's plays
40 Re-read all the Canterbury Tales
41 Knit a cable afghan
42 Finish my Flower afghan
43 Go camping
44 Watch a sunset
45 Look into a green burial for myself 29/1/09
46. Go on another Buddhist retreat at Taraloka
47. Go on a silent Buddhist retreat July 2009
48. Make a new bird table for the garden 13/6/09
49. Private (mloab)
50.Swim in the sea at night
51. Knit the Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf
52 Get a personal 'Colour analysis'
53 Learn to identify cloud types
54. Go to Faenol Festival
55. Private (mlitf)
56. Knit 25 charity items & post off (7/25)
57. Catalogue my yarn stash on Ravelry
58. do a NaNoWriMo
59. Release 10 books into the wild with book crossing (0/10)
60. Read 10 Italian Short stories in Italian (0/10)
61. Learn more / improve my Italian
62. Send 10 postcards with Post Crossing 13/2/09
63. Publish something (research article, letter to editor, photo, paper, etc)
64. Reach my ideal BMI
65. Watch a cricket match and have a picnic
66. Buy a nice Mahjong set
67. Learn to play the violin again
68. Participate in NaJoMo
69. Write a ghost story
70. Write a story based on a local legend
71. Write a piece about travel and food
72. Learn to play Cribage
73. Knit my first lace piece e.g. the Travelling Roses scarf
74. Make the Sweet Satisfaction Skull Knitting holder from Anticraft
75. Reserve a place for my green burial
76. Make myself one and promote Morsbags
77. Write a living will
78. Learn greetings, goodbyes, and basic pleasantries in Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, Greek, Arabic, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and 10 other languages.
79. Sell something on Etsy
80. Selll something on DeWanda
81. Make a few spell bottles for the house / car
82. See a Mystery Play in Chester
83. Spend a day at a zoo by myself
84. Have afternoon tea in a hotel
85.Plan my funeral - where, service, wake, etc.
86 Take part in national plot writing month one December
87 Take part in NaPoWriMo one April (poetry)
88 Get an Italian penpal who I can write to
89. Make a nice family recipe book which can be handed down to my daughter
90. Make a portfolio of graveyard photographs
91. Go to a woman's rugby game - Wales Women RU
92. Go watch an ice hockey game
93. Bathe in St. Winefride's Well in Holywell
94 Visit Jodrell Bank Observatory
95. Plant a vegetable container garden
96. Make a Garden Journal
97. Make a camping journal
98. Keep a writing diary
99. Take part in Earth Hour in 2009
100. Go wild swimming
101. Decorate and keep my dream diary

Monday, 3 August 2009

101 - decorate and keep dream diary - done

Dream diary - decorated with pictures and quotes
Kept daily



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47 - Go on silent retreat - done

Buddhist Silent Retreat at Taraloka from Friday to Wednesday, July 29th 2009...

Main enterance


















Handsome Gorgeous Dharma Cat














Tara Shrine Room

















BAck of main living area

















Bee on Lotus Flower






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Sunday, 14 June 2009

48 - Make a new bird table for garden

Put the new bird table up yesterday - looks good!
Photos to follow

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Monday, 11 May 2009

# 33. Go to a concert 9/5/09







Went to Radio 1's BiG Weekend in Lydiard Park, in Swindow with a friend on Saturday

See more about this on my holisticknitter blog here:

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Friday, 1 May 2009

# 95 - Create a vegetable container garden

Done- filled my small back yard ( 8' x 16') with lots of pots and grow bags.
Growing: tomatoes, cherry tomatoes (in hanging baskets), sweet peppers, chili peppers, courgettes, rocket, minuza, mixed salad leaves, beet spinach, pak choi, spring onions, chives, garlic chives, peas and beans, various herbs, 2 x blueberry bushes, a redcurrant bush, and a tayberry.

In my front garden (smnall again) I have a few buckets conatining: potatoes, carrots, leeks, beetroot. I also have herbs in pots here.

I'll be adding to the garden as the season goes on.











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# 97 - Make a camping journal

Made a camping journal with tips, recipes, dog info, etc. in, as well as ages to record my camping trips.


















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Wednesday, 8 April 2009

# 96 - Make a Gardening Journal - done

Made my journal with tips, growing guides, a yearly planting guide and journal entries.



















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# 99 - Particiapate in Earth Hour 2009 - done






We did particate in Earth Hour this year - playing cards by candlelight for an hour - great fun.

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Friday, 13 February 2009

# 62. Send 10 postcards with Postcrossing - completed

These are the 10 Postcards I've sent with Postcrossing to complete this task:

GB-63370 NeonFox U.S.A. 12 Feb, 2009 5,664 Kms
GB-62907 manu_hsp India 9 Feb, 2009 6,642 Kms
GB-62755 Linus Finland 7 Feb, 2009 2,045 Kms
GB-61390 kala U.S.A. 27 Jan, 2009 5,957 Kms
GB-62753 fannni Finland 7 Feb, 2009 2,124 Kms
GB-62815 Rikki Germany 7 Feb, 2009 997 Kms
GB-61959 giusel Italy 1 Feb, 2009 1,780 Kms
GB-61958 smila Germany 1 Feb, 2009 824 Kms
GB-61960 Dike Finland 1 Feb, 2009 1,824 Kms
GB-61957 lenakilpela Finland 1 Feb, 2009 2,009 Kms

I've enjoyed sending these so much that I'm now going to aim for 101 postcards by the end of the 1001 days ;0)

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Thursday, 29 January 2009

# 45 Find out about a green burial - completed

I've found out about Green / Eco burials in the UK via this site: The Centre for Natural Burial

The nearest site to me is Gwarchodfa Boduan Sanctuary Wood, near Pwhelli.Site here

I've downloaded all the inforamtion and will now be trying to save the £400 needed to reserve a plot in these woods.

I've also been searching for green coffins - made of cardboard or paper.
Some info available here:
http://www.ecopod.co.uk/
http://www.cardboardcasket.com/

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Tuesday, 1 January 2008

My List

My List

1. Finish reading War & Peace
2. Learn to crochet
3.. Learn to make soap
4. Paint my Buddhist Mani Stone
5.. Read Dante's Divine Comedy
6.. Write my MA dissertation, even though it's too late to hand it in now
7. Spend a night star-gazing
8. Take a Hopi-Ear candling course
9. Learn sign language
10. Write my '1001 things to do before I die' list
11. Write my will
12. Catalogue all my books
13. Go back to Venice
14 Go back to Rome, this time with my husband
15. Work on my Family Tree : research, compile tree, photos & stories ...
16. Make a family scrapbook
17. Move house
18. Strip & re varnish the sewing table I inherited from my Mum
19. Strip, re varnish & re upholster the rocking chair I inherited from my Mum
20. Organise a Family Picnic
21. Sleep under the stars
22. Watch a sunrise on the beach
23. Dance in the rain
24. Go snorkeling
25. Go to an open air performance of Shakespeare
26. Walk around Chester Roman walls again
27. Take part in the Playtex Moonwalk Half Marathon in 2011
28. Buy the perfect little black dress
29. Go to a day spa
30 Buy a pair of diamond earrings
31. Scan all the old photos
32. make a snowwoman
33. Go to a concert
34 Go to an opera
35. Watch Wales play rugby at the Millennium Stadium again
36. Read all the books in Milton's Paradise Lost
37.Create a work of art
38. Go tobogganing
39 Re-read all Shakespeare's plays
40 Re-read all the Canterbury Tales
41 Knit a cable afghan
42 Finish my Flower afghan
43 Go camping
44 Watch a sunset
45 Look into a green burial for myself
46. Go on another Buddhist retreat at Taraloka
47. Go on a Buddhist silent retreat
48. Make a new bird table for the garden
49. Private (mloab)
50.Swim in the sea at night
51. Knit the Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf
52 Get a personal 'Colour analysis'
53 Learn to identify cloud types
54. Go to Faenol Festival
55. Private (mlitf)
56. Knit 25 charity items & post off
57. Catalogue my yarn stash on Ravelry
58. do a NaNoWriMo one October
59. Release 10 books into the wild with book crossing
60. Read 10 Italian Short stories in Italian
61. Learn more / improve my Italian
62. Send 10 postcards with Post Crossing
63. Publish something (research article, letter to editor, photo, paper, etc)
64. Reach my ideal BMI
65. Watch a cricket match and have a picnic
66. Buy a nice Mahjong set
67. Learn to play the violin again
68. Participate in NaJoMo
69. Write a ghost story
70. Write a story based on a local legend
71. Write a piece about travel and food
72. Learn to play Cribage
73. Knit my first lace piece e.g. the Travelling Roses scarf
74. Make the Sweet Satisfaction Skull Knitting holder from Anticraft
75. Reserve Green Burial plot
76. Make myself one and promote Morsbags
77. Write a living will
78. Learn greetings, goodbyes, and basic pleasantries in Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, Greek, Arabic, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and 10 other languages.
79. Sell something on Etsy
80. Sell something on DeWanda
81. Make a few spell bottles for the house / car
82. See a Mystery Play at Chester
83. Spend the day at a zoo by myself
84. Have afternoon tea in a hotel
85 Plan my funeral - where, service, wake, etc.
86 Take part in national plot writing month one December
87 Take part in NaPoWriMo one April (poetry)
88 Get an Italian pen pal who I can write regularly to
89 Make a nice family recipe book that can be handed down to my daughter in time.
90 Make a portfolio of graveyard photograhs
91 Go to a Wales Women's WRU game
92 Go watch an Ice Hockey Game
93 Bathe in St. Winefride's Well in Holywell
94 Visit Jodrell Bank Observatory
95. Plant a vegetable container garden
96. Make a Garden Journal
97. Make a camping journal
98. Keep a writing diary
99. Take part in Earth Hour in 2009
100. Go wild swimming
101. Decorate and keep my dream diary

* Make my next '101 things in 1001 days' list on the
* donate £1 to charity for each item not fulfilled
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