I've been meaning to make a list of dreams and goals and things I want to do for awhile. I learned recently that when you put things out in the Universe that they happen. Partly because you are doing the leg work to make it happen, but also partly because when you say something like "I want to open a Crafty Coworking space in Chicago" people say that's a great idea and sometimes they even ask how they can help make it happen, or they connect you to people that can help make it happen. I am seriously blown away by the craft/indie community here in my beloved home town. Blown AWAY! Then I was reading Inward Facing Girl (a blogger I admire and I love the layout of her blog) and I clicked over to her Mighty Life List and I had an "Aha" moment. Awhile back I had a small life list and I actually did many things on that list, but I have grown and changed in ways I could never imagine and that list needs to grow and change as well.
Mighty Life List
Mighty Life List
- Find a vintage building and restore it.
- Open a Craft Coworking space in Chicago to teach classes, host events and have studio space.
- Design the quiet zone in the craft coworking space.
- Spend a month traveling throughout France collecting textiles, craft knowledge and speaking French.
- Visit Norway so I can visit Marimekko and some of the other fabulous places with textile.
- Speak in public about something I love.
- Teach a craft class in the UK.
- Draft a line of my own patterns.
- Write a book.
- Be a guest contributor on a blog.
- Finish a quilt.
- Take a vacation to a place where I can incorporate bike riding.
- Be a guest lecturer at a university.
- Finally get my tattoo.
- Release a seasonal clothing line.
- Create a line of home accessories.
- Create a fabric line.
- Sing at the Park West.
- Take a horseback ride in Hyde Park.
- Have a booth at Renegade.
- Finish reading Moby Dick.
- Go to Angola and Morrocco to learn new craft techniques.
- Get a proper mint tea tea set.
- Return to Iraq to visit friends.
- Only say yes to something if the response is Hell Yes.
- Create space to do the things on my life list.
- Clear out my closet and replace it with things I love
- Buy only what I love and what will last.
- For every thing that comes into my space, something must go.
- Take a cooking class.
- Cook once a week. Just cook something.
- Go for a motorcycle ride.
- Write a poem
- Send someone a letter
- Make a little something and give it away
- Leave an ATM (Always Trust magic)note
- Fly a kite
- Do yoga (this is another just do it!)
- Make it to the Etsy front page.
- Write a business plan.
- Help others with their life lists or connect them to someone who can help.
- Be featured on a design blog- any of the one's on Mighty Girl's list will do!
- Be more patient/kind
- Swim in as many seas as possible
- Find out where my family was from in Poland and visit their town.
- Bake Macarons
- Get myself a kitchen aid mixer
- Learn how to use Twitter
- Take a ballet class
- Give back through Meandering Design
- Ride a scooter in Italy.
- Be a guest on Ted
- Scan and organize the family photos
- Carry my camera more
- Be an active feminist.
- Play soccer
- Get a 1950 Ford F-1 Pickup truck and paint it turquoise.
- Have a dinner party and serve Iraqi dolma (with the caramelized onions on the bottom-mmmm)
- Spend a week doing absolutely nothing at Canary Island.
- Take a train ride through the slavic countries.
- Reupholster my favorite chair in vintage grey tweed.
- Have another girls weekend
- Drink more champagne
- Visit my nieces and nephews
- Find art for over the fireplace
- Crochet more in public
- Feel less self-conscious
- Have a rainy day fund
- Learn how to develop film
- Go on a creative retreat
- Have people over more often
- Live a life that allows for constant travel
- Go to Scotland
- Fall in love again
- Get all of my sewing machines working
- Have a sewing class for men
- Get the contact information for at least one person for each event I attend
- Reach out to people that I admire
- Use my Liberty of London fabric.
- Organize my fabric and sewing notions
- Go to New Orleans
- Make ice cream again
- Try to eat seasonally
- Finish the Prezi presentation I started
- Make all the electronics in my house work properly
- Create printed materials for Meandering Design
- Get a loom
- Make a rug
- Dye my own wool/fabric
- Take a sewing class
- Take a drawing class
- Refinish Poppies workbench
- Give away the crafty things I will not use to someone who can use them
- As much as possible, buy handmade
- Rewatch Amelie
- Make a hat
- Sew curtains for the kitchen
- Always have something on hand for visitors (snack and drink)
- Slow down and enjoy my food
- Leave town at least every 3 months.
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