30 days of lists // days 3-12

i'll just dive right in and ignore the fact that i am so behind in posting these.



day 3 // i'm looking forward to: owning a bungalow or cottage in a historic neighborhood; the new explosions in the sky album; traveling to the scottish highlands and upper islands; my 31st year; being debt free; mastering screen printing; reading more classics.


day 4 // today's playlist: my maudlin career - camera obscura; rubber soul - the beatles; bored to death - soundtrack; the con - tegan & sara; dark was the night - compilation; lungs - florence + the machine.



day 5 // weekend goals: photograph, edit & list etsy items; go to the movies!; clean (but probably not); go back to estate sale when everything is 50% off; tinker with blog layout; celebrate my birthday with the family ♥; watch misfits.



day 6 // my least favorite words: panties (i hate that i had to write that!); gelatinous; package; lol (ironically, my dog lola's nickname has come to be lol. the horror!); bi-monthly (why does this not mean twice a month? it confuses me every. time.)



day 7 // blog goals: define and follow through with weekly series; put finishing touches on layout + design so it will be super snazzy!; host giveaways for awesome things; make new friends (but keep the old, of course).



day 8 // in my bag: iPhone; iPod; q-tips (it's a weird quirk); post-it notes; wallet; sharpies; lip balm; victoria's secret 'the fragrance' body mist; loose pennies (oh so many!).



day 9 // my favorite sites: design*sponge; boing boing; geekologie; swissmiss; craigslist; we heart it; neatorama; pugly pixel; whorange; etsy; facebook (obvs); stereogum; serious eats.



day 10 // my (vintage) wishlist: a mint condition portable record player; a blythe doll!; teak danish modern dining room set; shelves and shelves of cathrineholm pieces; golden book of biology illustrated by the amazing charley harper.



day 11 // date night ideas: thrifting + coffee; indie film + brew pub; camera + botanical gardens; art museum; autumn hike; live music/concert; bike rides around the lake or on the trails.



day 12 // weekly rituals: grocery shopping (yawn); local thrift store!; dinner with friends; glee, the office, 30 rock, modern family (catch up on hulu.com); update etsy sales spreadsheet; estate sales on the weekend.

30 days of lists // days 1 & 2

things i should have added: worrier and perfectionist. after i wrote the list, i wanted to connect some of the letters more clearly, so i went over it again, which only made it darker. so then i went over the whole word, making some words stand out more. i worried that it looked weird and messy. then i just let it go. (but then i went over a few more words to make it appear artistically messy)



this was a hard list. i feel awkward listing things i'm good at because it goes against my introvert grain, but i'm working on that. i really like the remembering and maintaining a sense of direction choices. my family teases me for my memory - i do not forget! they claim i remember things that never even happened, but i know. oh, yes, i remember.

i have to admit that i have a stellar sense of direction. i can study a map or a set of directions once and then i'm not likely to have to look at them again. this comes in handy while traveling. i memorized paris on the trip over from london and didn't need a guidebook all day, so i was free to wander and enjoy the experience. when my friend and i were traveling in scotland in a smart car, a lack of discernible street signs had us going in circles. i finally told my friend to turn on the path with no signs at all and we ended up going through a field of sheep, but on the other side of the field? the road we needed.

30 days of lists

i joined up for 30 days of lists (thank you, mandy!) and i'm pretty excited about the prospect of jotting a list every day. there's nothing that makes me happier than a list, except, perhaps, a crossed-off list.

i have tons of journals, books, and paper lying around my apartment, so i wanted to make use of these materials instead of buying a new book. while looking for a moleskine journal i know i have (somewhere), i came across a stack of old christmas envelopes from paper source and i had an idea: an accordion envelope journal. i even had watercolor paper on hand, so i just cut 30 cards (plus a few extra for mistakes, of course) to stash in the envelopes.

i did treat myself to a new sharpie pen, though. a list is only as good as the pen that wrote it, right?