Progress Report on 3 Bracelets!

Things are happening!  I have designed 2 bracelets and drew out one.  The other doesn't need to be drawn out because it's very simple.  Lucky for me I date this guy who works at a machine shop.  This means I can cut metal!  The down side is that he knows how to work the machines, not me.  Unfortunately he has his own projects to work on so getting him to sit down and show me how to use these "machine programs" isn't easy...  My hope is that tonight, Friday, we'll work on things and then all Saturday during the day we'll have these guys done.  Though I still have to design a third one...  That'll get done today.  Or at least it has to or I won't be done by Sunday.

Here's what's done so far:

This is my computer drawing of my "feather" bracelet

And this is me programing it...

Sunday Sunday Sunday!!! Must be done done done!!

What are we doing here?

A lot of my life I've been told that I am "sooo creative" and maybe that's my problem.  Maybe I've felt too much pressure to be creative and since college, I haven't really been that.  I've been just...blah.  I been working, I've been sleeping, I've been pooping, I've just been wasting time is what it is.  Sure I've started projects here and there.  I've gotten real excited about something, bought all the equipment to make whatever project it might be and bam.  It's over.  The actual time comes to do something, I have everything I need and...I'm over it.  Well I say no more!  No more to this cycle (and more important money wasting).  I'm creating things GOD DAMN IT and finishing them and it's going to be great!  I think.  The end all goal though is to get one of these projects to turn into a money making hobby...  A stretch, but it's really what I'd like to be doing.  I want to be making money creating things, it's worth the shot and if nothing else at least this might get me out of my slump.  So, this is what I'll be doing.  I will be listing all of the artistic projects I would like to do over the next year.  I will give myself a week to do each project with exception of getting really into it.  If I'm really into a project I'll give myself a max of one more week to work on it.  In addition, I will post each week with photos of the projects that I'm working on.

I'm doing this for myself.  I'm doing this because I've never seen myself as a eat, sleep, work kind of girl and I worry that's what I'm becoming.  As my amazing photojournalism teacher Jon H. White once said "Don't die with your potential." and I'm going to do my damnedest not to!


Here's the list:

January

- Make 2 self designed bracelets
- Make 4 self designed rings
- Make 3 self designed necklaces
- Make 2 hair pieces (clip/headband/other)

February

- Make a main course not following a recipe
- Make a soup not following a recipe
- Make a cupcake flavored something you've never tried
- Design Sugar cookies for Valentines Day not using hearts...

March

- Give yourself a photojournalism project on a current event in Cleveland
- Buy 5 ugly dresses from the thrift store and make them beautiful (with sewing machine)
- Design and sew 3 throw pillows
- Make a chicken coop (oh yes, we will be raising chickens)

April

-Designate and create compost area
-Re-landscape the front yard
-Plant vegetable garden
-Plant flower garden

May

- Create 5 original characters (drawing)

- Create 5 original cards (birthday, holiday, good bye, sorry, thank you) with characters

- Using characters created from before, make a children's book
- Create 3 children's toys (for the record I work with kids)

June

- Paint triptych using own idea
- Using a soldering iron, find 3 items to solder and make awesome
- Make 2 things from old picture books
- Design a pair of shoes using InDesign

July

- Design and sew a dress to be worn on my birthday (July 7th!)
- Create 3 t-shirt designs, submit to Threadless
- Create 3 hair-do's
- Design and attempt to make a bathing suit

August

- Design summer cookies
- Make ice cream a flavor you've never had (or heard of)
- Create a photo project with the theme of bicycles (can change based on inspiration)
- Design a wallpaper pattern

September

- Jar jams/jellys
- Pickle 3 vegetables
- Make apple and pumpkin butter, then jar them
- Make one apple pie and one pumpkin pie

October

- Design/Create/Sew Halloween Costume
- Create 5 of my own halloween decorations
- Carve a pumpkin to look completely original
- Make 5 infused liquors (example: pumpkin infused vodka, Banana infused rum etc.)

November

- Create a cornucopia for the center of the table
- Create 5 Christmas cards and make them to send off by Dec. 1st
- Make 3 styles of savory cupcakes
- Learn how to blow glass...make 3 awesome pieces

December

- Make sweater stockings
- Make 5 Christmas decorations
- Make super awesome Christmas cookies, both designed sugar and another kind made from my own          
  ideas
- Hand make Christmas presents choosing from one of the projects above