#54 Send twenty five postcards via Postcrossing

#54 Send twenty five postcards via Postcrossing December 3, 2009

Filed under: Housey Things & Hobbies — 101livelynotions @ 19:50

One of the IWs who got me into 101 things also got me into Postcrossing (Tsk to you Madge!). Its an excellent project and it means that for more than twice a year (birthday and Christmas) you look forward to the post coming.

Five out of twenty five gone!

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My 101 list

Completed (6/101)
Work in progress (6/101)
Still to start (94/101)

The Project
1. Set up a blog to document the journey - 01/12/09
2. Update the blog 101 times (6/101)
3. Set aside 1gbp for each task completed (2/101)
4. Donate 2gbp for every task not even attempted
5. Take photos of every task

Days (and weekends)
6. Do a duck tour of one UK city
7. Enter Wales
8. See somewhere new in Ireland
9. Visit twenty places in the UK from my 501 places to see book.
10. Go “somewhere” at least every month for twelve months
11. Visit ten National Trust properties
12. Visit the Eden Project
13. Go back to Weymouth to replace the pictures that we lost
14. Cross the Forth Bridge
15. Visit the Lake District
16. Do the Forbidden Corner – inspired by Bobbin's Blog
17. Visit Buckfast Abbey
18. See the Giants Causeway
19. Visit Lands End
20. Visit five English Counties
21. Visit three UK Islands
22. Try skiing at least once

Photography
23. Organise Photos from our year in the USA
24. Complete a photobook
25. Print five pictures and hang them in the house
26. Do a photography safari at the WHF Big Cat Sanctuary
27. Learn how to do five new things on Photoshop and use them properly
28. Take twenty pictures of things that make me happy (only two can be my cats!)
29. Photograph wild horses in the New Forest
30. Do photobooth pictures of Ben and me
31. Change pictures on digital Photoframe at least every two months
32. Take a photograph of the same scene in every season

Food... and drink!
33. Eat at a Michelin star restaurant- 25/03/10
34. Make a homemade Christmas gift
35. Eat in ten restaurants i've never been to before
36. Eat a curry on Brick Lane
37. Organise an organic veg delivery
38. Cook twenty new recipes
39. Get geeky about wine to learn what I like and don't like
40. Grow five different herbs
41. Take a cookery course
42. Make chutney
43. Make three new types of soup
44. Visit (and hopefully taste at) three English Vineyards
45. Make homemade Hot Cross Buns
46. Buy a wine rack and fill it with wine
47. Make five things from the Star Wars Cookbook
48. Have afternoon tea with a friend
49. Go for a picnic

Housey Things & Hobbies
50. Finish my cross stitch
51. Organise my pins
52. Move house
53. Throw out all shoes that hurt!
54. Send twenty five postcards via Postcrossing - started 03/12/09
55. Receive twenty five postcards from Postcrossing
56. Organise my received postcards
57. Write a will

Just for fun
58. Go to five gigs
59. Go ice Skating on an outdoor rink - 18/12/09
60. Read ten books from the BBC Big Read List
61. Watch twenty five films from the IMDB Top 250 Films List
62. Read five books a friend recommends
63. Go out with friends at least once a month
64. Have ten dates with Ben
65. Watch Dexter
66. Go fruit picking
67. Build a snowman - 06/12/09
68. Take my Goddaugter somewhere fun
69. See three shows /musicals
70. Go to a comedy standup
71. See a TV show get filmed - 26/04/10
72. Reach 50GB of music on iTunes
73. Go to an ice hockey game - 11/12/09
74. Participate in ten pub quizzes
75. Shoot a gun - 03/01/10
76. Have a Singstar party
77. Dress up for Halloween

Things for me
78. Private for now
79. Become a member of the National Trust
80. Keep in touch with my US friends at least every three months outside of facebook!
81. Have a spa day
82. Take a packed lunch to work every day for a week
83. Go to a Hygienist at least four times
84. Run another Race for Life or other 5K run
85. Do an otter experience
86. Sign up for three evening classes
87. Join a gym and go at least once a week (for three months)
88. Try a new gym class
89. Go to BMF at least once!
90. Babysit nephew – eek!
91. Go to an Art Gallery
92. Try five new authors
93. Buy a new perfume
94. Buy a bike and go out on it at least once a month
95. Attend open air Shakespeare
96. Get tickets for at least one event in the 2012 Olympic Games
97. Buy and carry a notepad to write down important things - 03/12/09