I call them “reverse resolutions.” You can call them whatever you want. Instead of making goals I might not be able to keep (although I AM making goals this year) I list all the great stuff from this past year and have the pleasure of checking them all off.
2018 in review
MADE ART
Y is for Yearning
currently traveling with the
Migrant’s Alphabet project
Accession: Something Added
currently traveling with
Best of Dinner@8 exhibit
Celtic Knot Quilts in need of names
LEARNING SOMETHING NEW
Used a long arm machine for the first time
Learned Ukulele
Abbey Glassenberg’s Email Marketing class
Lauren Dahl’s Creating PDF Patterns class
Climbed 30′ up a tree (about halfway.)
ENTREPRENEURIAL ENDEAVORS
Start Your Art card deck
A new SHOP for my website
New Online Courses:
Bead It Like You Mean It: pt 2 beyond the basics of beading on fabric
The Artist’s Toolbox: the Elements of art
Moved into a new studio where I can watch birds land on the branches right outside my window.
TRAVEL
Santa Clara, CA
Ocean Isle, NC
Greenville, NY
Washington, D.C.
Dimmit, TX
Haymarket, VA
Omaha, NE
Orlando,FL
Ashville, NC
Cleveland, OH
Houston, TX
DOING SOME GOOD IN THE WORLD
Days for Girls Project
Social Justice – immigrants rights
Committed to no 1 use plastics whenever possible
BEING AMAZED AT MY CHILDREN
Far flung places
All grown up
Upward
Onward
A summer obsession
A little higher
A week away at band camp
Bashing things with sticks
What a lovely long list of wonderful things to check off. I feel so accomplished. Imagine me laughing uproariously! Seriously it’s all awesome but if I had written them down ahead of time there would be so many things that never got checked off. Why don’t you give it a try!
Share your own REVERSE RESOLUTIONS with me!
Most wonderful of all my friends, is that I feel I’m doing something worthwhile because of…. YOU!
I love my family, I love the world, I love meeting YOU!
I love sharing ART with YOU!
I love seeing you open your Artist’s Eyes so that you can
FIND JOY
CREATE BEAUTY
and
BE INSPIRED
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