At the start of the year, I decided I would do 35 things--learn new techniques, participate in five boutiques, double my business--to celebrate my 35th year.
Well, it's August, past the year's halfway point, and I have only completed FOUR things.
Yeah. Not good. Not good at all.
But I'm not giving up: I'm looking reality in the eye and I am denying it.
So here are 31 things I am going to do by December 31 (fingers crossed):
1. Participate in 4 more boutiques (Can RAW count as 3?).
2. Complete the riveted round link tutorial.
3. Make a fold form bracelet.
4. Learn how to make rings.
5. Start working in bronze (not copper, sigh, since I can't fire the stuff).
6. Complete my Bill Fretz tutorials that I bought 1.5 years ago.
7. Make a honing owl pendant, which will help me practice my riveting and sawing techniques.
8. Make a cold fusion necklace.
9. Make a hinged bracelet.
10. Make a book necklace for someone special who had her birthday a few months ago.
11. Make riveted flower ring (hopefully #4 goes well).
12. Learn how to etch in metal with a ballpoint pen.
13. Make a forged cuff bangle bracelet that Cleopatra would be proud of.
14. Reorganize my Etsy shop.
15. Solder a ring.
16. Make a silhouette mixed-metal pendant.
17. Work with faux concrete.
18. Contact a business or boutique to discuss the possibility of selling my jewelry there.
19. Learn how to make a hinge.
20. Learn how to successfully use glycerin to preserve my clay's flexibility.
21. Make a treasure bag (depends on #20).
22. Make a hollow bead for bead.
23. Set a stone in a bezel.
24. Make a pill box.
25. Make a hidden bale pendant.
26. Take photos for my Etsy shop.
27. Post a photo showing what I'm working on once a week on my Facebook page.
28. Make rubber band earrings (again this depends on the success of #20).
29. Make an open weave pendant--it looks so cool!
30. Mix silver and bronze clay to make a mixed-metal pendant.
31. Stay home AND work on my jewelry more often so I can get all of this done!
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