Resolutions
May. 24th, 2005 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsI'm not going to get anything else done before Media*West. Not a lot of progress this month, except in reading. I've been book and review centered.
To Be Read: Stopped counting at 113 in mid-May.
It's time to put this one to bed, I think. I originally had 575 TBRs, although the actual number of books I've gone through in the last year and a half are unknown, since I kept buying and getting them as well. With the new review jobs coming and so much of the work already done - hey, the stack has gone down by more than 3/4! - I'm going to say "good enough" and focus on reading and enjoying, not burning through, the rest of the stack.
2005 Resolutions
HANDIWORK
Cutting Y2K patches down to size
Cross-stitching Tudor roses on black twill bodice
HOUSEHOLD, GARDEN & LIFE CLEANUP
Declutter basement
Donate excess fabrics or make quilt kits for PfF III
Organize all fabric by project in neat containers
Clean up Library (dumping ground for things that didn't belong in basement)
Apply for Gov't job
Clean up bedroom
Sell on ebay:
- psaltry
- gold crystal ball stand private sale
- old BatB fanzines taking most to Media*West
Buy frames as necessary and hang at least two more pictures
For Garden:
- order 100 more bags mulch
- aphid treat roses
- Rescue Roses!
Go through magazine stack in basket and pull articles for future reading.
SHORE LEAVE
Recruit crew
Set up dedicated database (with help of programmers)
Buy Young Fan awards for Shore Leave (not dealing with embroidery this year after all)
Order Shore Leave awards
Run Masquerade
TEAM WENCH/CHARITY
TW 5K MS Walk
Lead Bylaw committee - get mission statement and bylaws drafted by mid-June
Help with Prepare for Fair III
Make book baskets for MSFB:
- Grounds for Suspicion - 13 paperbacks, coffee, cookies (book cover?)
- Calgon, Take Me Away - 12 paperbacks, calgon, bath oil (book cover?)
- Once Upon a Time - fairy tale books, treasure candle, Ever After game
- Swords and Sorcerers - 6 hardcover sword & sorcerer fantasies +...? Chocolate coins, and...?
WRITING
Get another reviewing job
Write 10K/B&B crossover story
Finish putting old BatB fic online
Write up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
plan_9_from_lj:
- Maine Pyar Kiya
- Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
EDUMACATION
Learn to make bread by hand from scratch
Learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine
Tudor history self-study (19 books to go)
Choose possible next degree
MISSIONARY PROJECT
Outline missionary book
Create pitch package
Finish Hiram's Diary - scanning, putting into timeline, hunting down quotes
Look up pitching requirements for McFarland
Create comprehensive list of HMCS references, give to Aunt
COOKBOOK PROJECT
Go through and reorganize cookbooks
Create personal cookbook of favorite recipes
Make holiday-recipe cookbook of tried and trusted recipes (NaCookWriMo?)
Finish old recipe cleanup - gut and toss backlog of magazines and clippings
MENDING/SEWING
Mend mundane clothes
Dye stained skirt and blouse, both black
Mend Renfair clothes
- Embroider
- - blue Irish dress (with celtic thistle)
- - black Irish dress (applique with tudor roses)
- - green Irish dress (celtic knot)
- Take in black skirt
- Fit flat caps (black,green, tapestry)
- Convert drawstring skirts to elastic
- - street skirt
- - light brown skirt
- - dark brown skirt
- - light blue skirt
- mend two chemises
- - heavy cotton - pick out lace on wrists and put in elastic
- - light cotton - hem, put elastic in neck and wrists
- sew three chemises
- - white cotton
- - natural cotton
- - black gauze
CRAFTS
Make tassels for decorative carabiners
- shades of pink and purple for purple butterfly (regular tassle)
- white and blue stars for howling wolf
- gold and silver and blue with gold stars for "celestial"
- blue and black with silver stars for moon
- shades of pink and white for pink ribbon (regular tassle)
- red, green, and gold for dragon (regular tassle)
Try making three variations on milk and olive oil soap
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy
- molded chocolates
- eggnog fudge
- press cookies
QUILTING (to be rolled over into 2006 as necessary)
Hang grandmother's quilt in hall
Make baby quilt for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tchwrtr
Pineapple scrap quilt
Rainbow Braid quilt
Embroidered denim quilt
Denim and flannel crazy quilt
Silk Fibonacci butterfly crazy quilt
Machine embroidered redwork
Y2K Colorado stripe quilt
Y2K watercolor quilt
Machine embroidered floral cheater cathedral window
TRAVEL
Go to VA quilt show and make a stop in Colonial Williamsburg
Weekend in NYC and see Spamalot!
Malice Domestic
Media*West
Stratford
Bouchercon
To Be Read: Stopped counting at 113 in mid-May.
It's time to put this one to bed, I think. I originally had 575 TBRs, although the actual number of books I've gone through in the last year and a half are unknown, since I kept buying and getting them as well. With the new review jobs coming and so much of the work already done - hey, the stack has gone down by more than 3/4! - I'm going to say "good enough" and focus on reading and enjoying, not burning through, the rest of the stack.
2005 Resolutions
HANDIWORK
Cross-stitching Tudor roses on black twill bodice
HOUSEHOLD, GARDEN & LIFE CLEANUP
Sell on ebay:
- psaltry
Buy frames as necessary and hang at least two more pictures
For Garden:
- order 100 more bags mulch
- Rescue Roses!
Go through magazine stack in basket and pull articles for future reading.
SHORE LEAVE
Buy Young Fan awards for Shore Leave (not dealing with embroidery this year after all)
Order Shore Leave awards
Run Masquerade
TEAM WENCH/CHARITY
Lead Bylaw committee - get mission statement and bylaws drafted by mid-June
Help with Prepare for Fair III
Make book baskets for MSFB:
- Grounds for Suspicion - 13 paperbacks, coffee, cookies (book cover?)
- Calgon, Take Me Away - 12 paperbacks, calgon, bath oil (book cover?)
- Once Upon a Time - fairy tale books, treasure candle, Ever After game
- Swords and Sorcerers - 6 hardcover sword & sorcerer fantasies +...? Chocolate coins, and...?
WRITING
Write 10K/B&B crossover story
Finish putting old BatB fic online
Write up for
plan_9_from_lj:- Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
EDUMACATION
Learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine
Tudor history self-study (19 books to go)
Choose possible next degree
MISSIONARY PROJECT
Outline missionary book
Create pitch package
Finish Hiram's Diary - scanning, putting into timeline, hunting down quotes
Look up pitching requirements for McFarland
Create comprehensive list of HMCS references, give to Aunt
COOKBOOK PROJECT
Make holiday-recipe cookbook of tried and trusted recipes (NaCookWriMo?)
Finish old recipe cleanup - gut and toss backlog of magazines and clippings
MENDING/SEWING
Mend Renfair clothes
- Embroider
- - blue Irish dress (with celtic thistle)
- - black Irish dress (applique with tudor roses)
- Take in black skirt
- Fit flat caps (black,
- Convert drawstring skirts to elastic
- - street skirt
- - light brown skirt
- - dark brown skirt
- - light blue skirt
- mend two chemises
- - heavy cotton - pick out lace on wrists and put in elastic
- - light cotton - hem, put elastic in neck and wrists
- sew three chemises
- - white cotton
- - natural cotton
- - black gauze
CRAFTS
Try making three variations on milk and olive oil soap
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy
- molded chocolates
- eggnog fudge
- press cookies
QUILTING (to be rolled over into 2006 as necessary)
tchwrtrPineapple scrap quilt
Rainbow Braid quilt
Embroidered denim quilt
Denim and flannel crazy quilt
Silk Fibonacci butterfly crazy quilt
Machine embroidered redwork
Y2K Colorado stripe quilt
Y2K watercolor quilt
Machine embroidered floral cheater cathedral window
TRAVEL
Media*West
Stratford
Bouchercon
