Tag: creative

#16 Scrapbook

I’ll be honest right out the gate: technically this isn’t fully accomplished yet and there is a very just reason!

My brother actually has all the old photos and I’m near a desperate state to steal his hard drive and go through a decade worth of photos. I haven’t entirely reached that point yet, but I would really love to finish the scrapbook I am working on.

I have put together a scrapbook of my brother’s and I Comic Con adventures and for some odd reason I have 0 photos and he has them all. What I do have however is loads of artwork and the professional photo ops, as well as all the random cards and stickers from booths over the years. For the most part I kept everything we ever got from any con in my bottom dresser drawer and now all that hoarding has paid off!

It has given me plenty to begin this scrapbook, enough that I feel confident in sharing some of it! So here it is y’all my first ever scrapbook.

I know it still needs lots of work and lots more photos and probably some stories. The thing is I haven’t accomplished a goal for my list in a while and I really have been trying to cross this one off and right now I am settling for close enough because I would feel better seeing progress.

Though not entirely right, I do feel I have made the effort to check it off and since this is my list and my rules I can do what I want. That settles that then.

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#14 Finish a full art journal

Y’all it has been a hot minute since I’ve made a post. This year has already been so chaotic with work and now with covid19 I have absolutely no idea what’s going on anymore. But what I do know my challenges and goals are super important to me, so I want to take some time and refocus and try to get some things accomplished. 2020 has been a year of work and stress so far and I feel like I haven’t moved forward and right now I need this list to motivate me to go forward and to do things.

Now onto the actual post!

I don’t wanna bombard you with the full thing, but here are some of my favorite things I’ve done in my Journal.

First Here is my Art Journal:

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Cue collage!

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A lot of this isn’t my original work or anything, it’s stuff I’ve followed along off tutorials, or stuff I saw on pinterest and tried my best to copy. I am not good with calling images to my mind, so I always need a reference to do any sort of art, but this wasn’t for me to show off my art. This art journal became a place to distract me from stress or boredom and it was just something fun to play around with. There was no pressure for it to be good and it’s not like when I was in grade school where it would be graded on based on assignments. It was just whatever I felt like doing and that was so freeing.

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Master List

The Plan: Have 100 goals completed before I turn 30.

The Goals:

  1. Know over 25 go to healthy recipes
  2. Clear skin
  3. Find a fitness activity to be passionate about
  4. Get to and maintain a 59 kilograms weight
  5. Keep consistent pace on a run
  6. Dance every day for a month
  7. Do another OCR
  8. 20 Mile Hike
  9. 20 Consecutive Push Ups
  10. Learn some yoga
  11. Master a classical piano piece
  12. Make a table top game
  13. Build a game table
  14. Finish a full art journal
  15. Paint a picture
  16. Scrapbook
  17. Learn calligraphy
  18. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
  19. Learn ballroom dancing
  20. Write a Book
  21. Zorbing
  22. Sky dive
  23. Parasailing/Paragliding
  24. Canyoneering
  25. Learn to Sail
  26. Zip line
  27. Surfing
  28. Scuba Diving
  29. Bungee jump
  30. Backpacking trip
  31. Read 1000 books
  32. Fluent Spanish
  33. Decent Korean
  34. Obscure history
  35. Connoisseur of Tea
  36. Study Business
  37. Art History
  38. Astronomy
  39. Study a Theory
  40. Learn something I have no prior interest in
  41. Puerto Rico
  42. Spain
  43. Italy
  44. Peru
  45. South Korea
  46. Southeast Asia
  47. Greece
  48. Iceland
  49. New Zealand
  50. Road Trip the U.S.
  51. Budget
  52. Savings
  53. Start Investing
  54. 800+ Credit Score
  55. Passive Income
  56. Financial Freedom
  57. Pay off all Debts
  58. Proper Accounting
  59. Start my own business
  60. Own a Home
  61. Gardening
  62. Fly Tying
  63. Cardistry
  64. Survival
  65. Knife Throwing
  66. Leather Craft
  67. Bartending
  68. Fighting
  69. Videography
  70. Beauty
  71. Go Dancing at least twice a month for a year
  72. Monthly Board Game Night
  73. Go out every night for 1 week
  74. Throwback outings
  75. Live music
  76. Make New Friends
  77. Say Yes
  78. Go to Vegas with a Group
  79. Dating
  80. Join a Club
  81. 9 Ball Break and Run
  82. Complete a Dozen Escape Rooms
  83. See a Play on Broadway
  84. Stay in a Haunted Hotel
  85. Fly First Class
  86. Have the best Theme Party
  87. Go to a World Festival
  88. Cook Everything in a Cookbook
  89. Drive an Expensive Sports Car
  90. Teach dog utterly useless trick
  91. Have a Car Chase
  92. Befriend strangers at hotel
  93. Go to a Psychic
  94. Start a dramatic scene from a movie to someone in coffee shop
  95. Return something lost to someone
  96. Have someone tell me their life story
  97. See someone in a bookstore looking at a book and buy it for them
  98. See a shop that is doing some type of class and go sign up for one
  99. Make up a different persona for a day
  100. Attend a fancy affair

Creative

I’m going to have to get creative with this list…. Yeah lame pun. Was worth it.

Creative List:

  1. Master a classical piano piece
    • I’ve been playing the piano since I was a kid and it’s embarrassing to say how much I actually suck at it. This has been something that I have already been working on and it’s something that I have always loved, but have just never been good/patient enough. Also, I’m talking full mastery of this piece, not the easier version just to say I did it. I want the difficult, fast paced piece that will literally make me scream in anguish, but will be totally worth it. This was originally 5, but I don’t want to get stuck on a number. Right now I just want to focus on a piece that I love and if I continue to learn more I’ll be thrilled. But for this goal I’d like just to have one under my belt.
  2. Make a table top game
    • I love board games, card games, dice games, just games. Therefore, I want to make my own table top in its entirety. I want to have a box on my shelf of my game and be like “yeah, I made that.”
  3. Build a game table (Looking at you Brother)
    • As much as I love my board games I have nowhere awesome to play them. My dear brother of mine came up with the idea to build this table a year or two ago and it has yet to happen. I’m going to choose to believe it will happen before I’m 30.
  4. Finish a full art journal
    • With all journals I get about 20 pages in, then forget about it and then start a new one. So for this I want to have a journal and fill it completely up, but writing all the time is difficult (read: she says as she’s writing a blog post). To counter that I am starting an art journal (read: I am so not artistic) that will be full of randomness and maybe some art (read: it won’t be pretty).
  5. Paint a picture
    • I’m not a strong painter, but I’d like to go to a Canvas and Cocktails so I see myself doing this one day. Plus, it’s not like the picture needs to look good…right?
  6. Scrapbook
    • My parents have all of the family and childhood photos just stacked up in a closet still inside the Walmart developed photo envelopes. Never been touched, just there. I’d like to go through all of it, maybe with my family and get them all in photo albums. I secretly wanna be Leslie Knope, so I’m going to make this goal focused on making a cool scrapbook.
  7. Learn calligraphy
    • The videos of calligraphy are always so cool and calming and pretty. I wanna learn the ways.
  8. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
    • This is a smidge drastic and extravagant. I was thinking like Cake Wars, but maybe not exactly like Cake Wars. They go all out and they know what they are doing (ish) and I am not nearly skilled enough. I just wanna decorate a cake that looks awesome at least once in my life though. Think a less extreme Cake Wars cake for the beginner level cake lover.
  9. Learn ballroom dancing
    • Who doesn’t wanna dance like a classy boss?
  10. Learn to Play Recuerdos de la Alhambra
    • For those of you who don’t know this song it is a classical guitar piece that I’ve recently developed a fascination for. Fun fact I don’t know how to play guitar besides Wonderwall by Oasis and this seems like something completely random that I want under my belt.