Last Day Of 2017

FIRST AND FOREMOST....HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE TO ALL OF MY FAMILY & FRIENDS!!!

So far, regarding my accountability list for 2017 has been doing ok.   Out of originally 31 items, pretty much the majority of them were completed.  There are now just the ones that are on going to carry on with, which at the end of this post I will finish off with a new list to begin with in 2018.

But today, I would like to talk about a challenge that I have thought out for myself and now bringing it out onto the table.

#ArtADay2018ForHealth

I will be blogging daily, every day this time for the entire year, and not give up like I did last year.  Well that is my determination anyway...my intent of this is to do my best to keep moving and do at least a little bit every single day, exercise more,eat healthier, and be healthier, I do not want another repeat of this year that is for sure!!!

My idea of Art A Day 2018 for Health are the following.  It could be at least 18 minutes of making something, anything, like an ATC, or alter a rolodex.  It could also be a journal page, or a master board.  Perhaps a painting on canvas (large or small), or playing with my spirograph.  As long as I make something.  I would ideally prefer the project to be finished, and posted by the end of every single and posted for my readers.  However realistically we all know that life happens and things can get in the way of such an on taking, right?  For example I have 2 day surgeries coming up very shortly in the month of January.  On the 5th of January, I am scheduled for the carpel tunnel release of my left wrist.   And on January 20 I will be facing the music and going for a colonoscopy.  I have had far too many reasons NOT to get this done in the past year.

So, #ArtADay2018ForHealth will commence as of midnight tonight.  I would like to challenge you all to do the same, or similar, or an average of.

My most recent project found me collecting toilet paper rolls for the last 12 months!  Fun Fun Fun!  Blows me away at how many I ended up with.  To give you an idea, I needed 9 rows of 14 rolls.  WOW!  I saw a fabulous video on Facebook of ideas of things to make with them, one of totally tickled my fancy, so I started the process on Friday.  The project is a marker/pencil crayon holder.  I really love the idea of being able to find anything you need or want in a split second or a couple of split seconds.  So how I decided to engineer this is to put rows in proper rainbow colored instead of the colors being amuck every where like the video showed, and I decided to expand it.  The one on the video showed maybe 6 rows across and 6 rows down.

I started with a bunch of plain boring looking toilet paper rolls

So I took the acronym (that my good friend Kat taught me), Roy G Biv and went to work.  This is what I have completed so far.  

I have painted all of the rest of the rolls and they just need to be glued together.  Except I need to repaint the violet ones. But I am probably more than half done.

I will likely have this completed by midnight tonight, so that I can end the year with completing a project.  So then all there will be to do is to find a place for which I think I have one on one of my shelves, so that it will be handy.  And then to load all of my markers and pencil crayons into it.  If all goes well, I may make one for my crayons.

insert photo of finished marker holder.

Last but not least for this post..here is my new accountability list for 2018.

ART RELATED

1) Swap Bot projects to fill in gaps for when I have no other art to do
2) On going group projects either with my own group or my other main-stays
3) Greeting card challenges and send more home made birthday greeting cards by snail mail
4) Cut down more cardboard boxes to ATC size
5) More water color painting at the very least on ATC size
6) Update profile on swap bot
9) Work harder on putting all ATCs received from beginning of time into binders
10) Organize all stash better
11) Trade more in Sharon's group
12) Keep art desk and room cleaner
13) Revisit and finish any incomplete project

HOME RELATED

1) Sorting of all paper work for income tax etc
2) Go througn all photos, name them and burn them onto DVDs
3) Be a better housekeeper

HEALTH RELATED


1) Fight sleep better
2) Exercise more



ON GOING ALL THE ABOVE ALL OF THE TIME

Accountability List for 2017

How am I doing on my accountability list? See below!

✔1)  Make a spring flip book for Bev P over on Swap-Bot, which should actually get done today and in the mail tomorrow.  Its due May 5th and should have already been worked on. - CHECK!!!  Done and Mailed on May 3, 2017 - DONE

-I have since made a Halloween flip book for Bev P, I just now have to mail it. - DONE

2)  Finish Bonnie's pocket letter and mail the dies to her from Bev. - DONE
-I currently have a Christmas pocket letter to make and to mail to Bonnie  - DONE

3)  Mona Lisa ATC's for ATC Exchange Circle    - DONE
-I currently have 16 Christmas ATCs to make for Paper Art Creatios ASAP - DONE

 and 2 Harvest Halloween ATCs to make and to send to Marie Schroller = DONE

4)  Make a pocket letter for Michelle on the Canadian Pocket Letter Group.  - DONE

5)  Make a pocket letter for my Mom for Mothers Day, shame on me,  MY BAD this never did get done, I guess I was being delusional?

6)  Make a pocket letter for Laura Toll.  I have already hinted to her that I was going to send something to her "Aunt Laura " oops that was accidental intention because I was supposed to say Aunt Linda.  But it made Laura laugh so that was good.... - DONE

7)  Make a pocket letter for Aunt Linda. - DONE

8) Word die cuts for my partner in pre cut die cut swap group. – DONE

9) Make a few corner book marks and put one in Pats Pocket Letter and mail it - DONE

10)  I have fallen so far behind on the Heart Art Project that I don't know if I will be able to get caught up.  This is not going to happen.  – SADLY GAVE UP – EXPECTED TOO MUCH OF MYSELF – MY BAD

11)  I also have a WHOLE WHACK of die cutting to do especially for my good friend Bev .DONE

12)  On going Swap bot projects. – CONTINUE TO DO
-I am trading and swapping on swap bot all of the time.

13)  On going big group projects. – CONTINUE TO DO
-I did a few big group projects but I don’t want to do big projects very much – DONE

14)  Cut up all card board boxes down to ATC size to use for backings.
-Have since done a whole whack more, AND NOW HAVE MORE TO DO YET AGAIN

15)  Get back into water color painting! love this much but I have been getting artist block.  MUST PAINT

16)  Sorting all paper work we have into order by date for tax purposes. -on going – CONTINUE TO DO

17)  Update my profile on Swap-Bot – this has not been done yet either – MUST DO

18)  HALLOWEEN HOWL DUE AUGUST 31 - DONE
-Have since done another Halloween Howl - DONE
20)  On going sorting and putting all ATCs into order by artist in binders.  – MUST DO

21)   Collecting all of our contacts and info and writing them all down by hand and putting them into the roster manually...just in case if there is ever an information hiway crash...but for the real reason is that Google is messing around with our info believe it or not... - DONE

22)  Going through all of our photos and burning them on to dvd's – MUST DO

23)  On going sorting my craft stuff and keeping it reasonably tidy.  For example sorting whatever clear stamps I have that are not in binders and put them into binders.  Lots of other more interesting things to do in the Art Cave – MUST DO

24)  Being a better house keeper.   This is hard to do when you are sick – MUST DO

25)  Collect all the paper work necessary for an important meeting this week. – DONE

26)  Scan All of my available to trade ATCs to trade individually and put them in my files on Sharon's group, and the big group.  – DONE – BUT HAVE MORE TO DO – MUST DO

27)  Trade more on Sharon's group – MUST DO

28)  On top of all of this I need to spend more time again on the lessons I am taking over at the learning hub. – MY BAD – I HAVE GIVEN UP ON THOSE, THEY ARE NOT REALLY USEFUL TO ME

29)  Over all being more creative especially on rainy days!  And making sure that I am completely all caught up on my promises!
-getting better at this – WATCH FOR 2018 ART A DAY CHALLENGE

30)  Exercising little by little everyday either doing the moving easy program, walking or jogging around the house, or playing fetch with Spencer & NOW  COCO.   MUST DO!

31)  Clean Desk – DONE – ON GOING…MUST DO