Seashell Garland

An easy project I've been meaning to do is a shell garland. It's a great way to display all of the shells I find on the beach. I think I'll use the thicker hemp twine instead of thin fishing line like some people suggest. It will give it a more nautical rope like quality.

The garland can be whatever you dream it to be. Crowded full of shells, a shell every couple inches, super long, short, it can be put up sideways with danglies or hang straight down in a single strand. The one I'm going to start out with is something like in this post (I got the picture from here too). They will look perfect hanging in our bedroom.

Ideas and Projects

There are so many craft ideas whizzing around in my head that it's getting difficult to remember all of them. So even though I haven't completed them yet, I'm going to blog about them. We'll call them...ideas and projects. That should work well. Ideas will be anything I'd like to do. Projects will be once I've started them. This can be anything from crafts, art, gardening, house projects, sewing, internet stuff, or anything in between and outside. I found many of them on Completely Coastal. Others I found reading House Beautiful. I love that magazine. And still others from browsing the web. Aren't you excited? I am!!

Goals

Remember this: 101 in 1001? Well I kind of threw it out the window. I haven't been keeping up with it at all. So when I came across this website I decided that something else is more my style. I would like some goals to work towards and not have a set deadline. I'm crap at deadlines. So I am making a "bucket list" of sorts. Some things will be easy to accomplish while others will take a long time. How about 10 short term goals and 10 long term goals. Once the short term are complete I'll make a new list. Sound good? Sounds muy bueno to me!

Short term goals list
1. Family trip to the Oregon Zoo

Photo courtesy of Oregon Zoo

2. Family trip to the Oregon Coast Aquarium

Photo courtesy of Oregon Coast Aquarium website.

3. Family trip to the Wildlife Safari
4. Get a new tattoo and get my foot tat finished
5. Write and illustrate a childrens book
6. Stop drinking soda for one month
7. Show Jasper the outdoors; camping, swimming, fishing
8. Throw the awesomest, nifftiest, sweetest 1st birthday party ever for Jasper in our new house!
9. Make some friends. Put in genuine effort to keep contact, mend bridges and start new friendships.
10. Take Jasper to our backyard beach often and show him the fun!!

Long term goals list
1. Get to a weight that I'm comfortable, healthy and happy with.
2. Get my drivers license - oy vey, is that a post in itself.
3. Visit all 50 states
Craft project: make a cute map to track it.
4. Get our finances in order and get ahead finally.
5. Start my own business
6. Travel to Alaska
7. Find our "forever home". Who knows, maybe it's where we're moving now.
8. Have a baby girl
9. Become a domesticated lady. Do dishes, cook, clean, laundry, crafty home projects, bake, etc.

I feel this pic describes my blunders pretty well. Plus, I think it's sexy.

10. Send greeting cards every year with photos. Make them something family and friends look forward to.

Let the goals begin!!