Day Zero is a place to record your goals, discover new challenges, and gain motivation to achieve them. I have a list of 100 things I want to do over the next 1001 days.
The list was started on the 19th September 2010 and completed on the 16th June 2013. I will aim to blog a short summary of any tasks I have achieved at the end of each month.
1. See the Northern Lights
2. Have another baby
3. Move house
4. Post a historical biography on my family website every fortnight for 6 months
5. Read at least one book every month for 12 months
6. Choose an eternity ring
7. Decide whether to return to work or not
9. Lose baby weight
10. Make a new friend
11. Identify 100 things that make me happy
12. Learn to ice biscuits
13. Send a secret to PostSecret
14. Complete a 365 day photo challenge
15. Don’t eat fast food for a month
16. Make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011
17. Plant a tree
18. Bake a Union Jack cake
19. See a movie in 3D
20. Get E christened
21. Bake and decorate Christmas cupcakes
22. Bake 10 different gingerbread recipes
23. Make a snow angel
24. Make cushions for my sister
25. Buy a new Orla Kiely handbag
27. Finish Edward’s nursing chair
28. Make Willow a cushion
29. Make Edward’s dinosaur blanket
30. Make my own Christmas cards
31. Make soup from scratch
32. Take part in at least one swap a month for 6 months
33. Use my fabric stash before I buy any more!
34. Make a video of Edward’s first 6 months
35. Make a video of Edward’s first 12 months
36. Have tea at an exclusive London hotel
37. Make Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon recipe
38. Do at least one geocache a month for a year
39. See Keane play live
40. Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet
41. Find a suitable nursery for Edward – one day a week
42. Move my blog to self-hosting
43. Go to a Christmas market in Europe
44. Learn to knit bunting
45. Read a biography
46. Learn how to drive
47. Open an etsy shop for all my vintage finds
48. Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
49. Learn how to take better pictures with my camera
50. Join the WI!
51. Book a babysitter for the first time
52. Make cake pops
53. Weed the garden in preparation for summer
54. Find a place for the type drawer!
55. Successfully grow some vegetables
56. Go to an Olympic event in London in 2012
57. Go on a creative course
58. Have a pedicure
59. Successfully grow herbs
60. Make Edward’s baby book for his 1st birthday
61. Visit friends in Ireland
62. Make 12 gingerbread houses
63. Scan my historical photographs
64. Set up a new blog for my family history
65. Buy a new winter coat
66. Make a badge blanket
67. Write 12 how-to crafty posts
68. Make a union flag mug rug
69. Make my sister a draught excluder
70. Make meringues
71. Complete a cross stitch
72. Book driving lessons
73. Pass driving theory test
74. Pass driving test
75. Finish the nursery
76. Make Edward’s advent calendar
77. Make Edward a Clothkits cushion
78. Make a paper-pieced quilt
79. Win a Maclaren pushchair!
80. Make vintage tags for swaps and parcels
81. Take Edward to baby signing classes
82. Take Edward to a new nursery group or activity
83. Bake sticky ginger cake
84. Finish felt gingerbread house
85. Finish felt gingerbread ornament
86. Make a bib kerchief
87. Make a soft rattle
88. Improve my blog
89. Make a giraffe quilt
90. Buy a vintage dolls house
91. Make Edward a cot quilt cover
92. Set up a Facebook fan page for my blog
93. Make a cross-stitched iPhone case
94. Make a crawling mat for the Second Baby
95. Make gingerbread men (from Crafting Christmas Gifts)
96. Make a tea cup candle
97. Take part in Dress a girl around the world
98. Learn to decorate interesting gingerbread men
99. Make/bake a gingerbread house
34 Comments
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Emma
January 29, 2011 at 12:00 pmI love to find others who are doing this too, I crossed another one off today!
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Sarah
May 20, 2011 at 1:44 pmHey,
You’ve joined Emma’s linky. I’m Sarsm and wondered if you’d like me to put you on my 101ers blogroll too?
Great list and you’re really marching through it!!
jenny
May 20, 2011 at 7:47 pmHi,
Please add me to your blogroll! Can’t wait to have a look at your list too 🙂
Jenny
Sarah
August 15, 2011 at 6:31 amI’m so sorry. I’ve just seen this. I will do it ASAP. (I just came back to see how you’re getting on) You’re totally striding through your list – impressive.
I’ll put you on my next update and tell the others.
Julie
May 24, 2011 at 3:05 pmI made a list as well! I am inspired to see how many you’ve crossed off already.
Not a Notting Hill Mum
June 16, 2011 at 1:38 pmHi
Thanks for visiting. Good to meet you too – but are you going to brave the cold water of the actual event!!
love the list – I do these – but admittedly keep them on my desktop so noone else can follw my ( lack of ) progress!
See you at cybermummy
Not a Notting Hill Mum
PS I have friended you!
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Elaine Kidd
July 29, 2011 at 11:54 pmI keep thinking about doing a list but wonder if the lack of things ticked off will be bad for my self esteem. you seem to be getting on well with your list.
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SammyDee
August 22, 2011 at 2:27 pmHi, I found your site from Sarah’s blogroll. I’m taking the 101/1001 challenge too. I love that you have so many creative items on your list. Have you published photos of all the things you’ve made? I’d love to see them. What is your Esty shop called?
emma tustian
August 23, 2011 at 4:19 pmOoh a great thing to do…Will have to think what I can do and record it on my blogs (maybe I’ll do some craft based and some baby based, plus some general ones – but which blog to write it on?!)
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Jen
March 26, 2012 at 4:01 pmHi! I’m a new 101er. I’m so impressed that you’re almost through with your list. Good job! 🙂
jenny
March 26, 2012 at 9:37 pmThanks! It’s fun to have a list to work through. Will check your list out too 🙂
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Erica Price
July 7, 2012 at 7:39 pmYou’re really getting through them now. I must do something like this.
Josephinedrania
August 31, 2012 at 11:39 amI’ve been reading about your list for a while now, and you’ve encouraged me to start my own. 🙂 Thanks!
Jo
January 7, 2013 at 3:13 pmWow! An impressive list and you are working through it at a pace.
Great idea.
Enjoying reading your blog.
Jo x
Amy collins
January 16, 2013 at 5:48 pmI’ve just come across your website. Really enjoying reading your posts, thank you.
This is an amazing list and I’m so impressed with everything you’ve crossed off.
I started blogging this year as I love reading other people’s blogs. Yours has been one of my favorites so far.
Amy
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