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Stitching & Crafting Room:  What is on your "Bucket List"?  |
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Lorie Marler
True Blue Farmgirl
265 Posts
Lorie
Guymon
Ok
USA
265 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 08:56:20 AM
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I got this idea from reading a post from emsmommy. I thought it would be fun to see what is on other farmgirls lists. A "Bucket list" is things you want to learn and do before you kick the bucket.
My list is mostly craft things I want to learn It is far from finished but at least it is a start.
1. Learn to spin (dog hair and angora)
2. Learn to do leatherworking
3. Learn to knit
4. Move back out to the country
5. Raise chickens for eggs
6. Make candles (I have all the stuff but never enough time)
7. Make a hexagon quilt
8. Get all of the Farmgirl Badges
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http://bikerbunniesrabbitry.webs.com |
Edited by - Lorie Marler on Jun 17 2010 07:07:55 AM |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 10:08:34 AM
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I like this idea!
1) Learn how to spin
2) Knit a sweater
3) Travel to Italy, Spain, and Greece
3) Open a photo gallery
4) Compete in a triathalon
5) Learn how to use my sewing machine
I'm sure they'll be more things to add!
God's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal. |
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urban chickie
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Catherine
Niles
IL
USA
734 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 10:10:25 AM
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Mmmm....my list is long and ever growing LOL. I am happy to say, though, that I have done most of the things that were on my list 10 or 25 years ago! But you know the old saying, the more you know the more you know what you DON'T know. So the list grows. Right now it includes:
1. Learning to spin wool (am a total newbie right now)
2. Learn to weave tapestry better, and learn both rigid heddle and 8 harness weaving
3. Learn bobbin lace making
4. Learn needle lace making
5. Learn to tat with a shuttle
6. Raise chickens
7. Start & maintain a beehive
8. Grow 95% of my food (I love to cook and refuse to give up exotic spices or tea lol)
9. Scrap all my family photos
10. Learn canning
11. Learn to make my own miso
12. Make my way through all the classic Western literature
lucky I have always said I will live to be 100!!!
Catherine
Farmgirl #1370
City Girl By Birth,
Suburbanite By Location,
Farmgirl at Heart
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9439 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9439 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 4:59:09 PM
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Well, I have already started doing some of the things on my list.
1 Learning to play piano. ~ I've had 3 lessons so far.
2. Getting back down to my 'normal' weight.~ I have 4 lbs to go. And I am grateful for Weight Watchers helping to change my eating habits.
3. Would love to learn tatting
4. Learn to do needlepoint.
I am sure my list will get longer.
"All you need is faith, trust and......a little bit of pixie dust" ~Peter Pan |
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bellagirl
True Blue Farmgirl
129 Posts
Carmen
Holland
MI
USA
129 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 5:34:37 PM
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Oh My Gosh!!!! A bucket list...Let's see
1. ride in a hot air balloon
2. see Ireland
3. learn tatting
3. become completely self sufficent in growing my own food
4. learn to make soap
Just for starters.
MJFG #1443
Bellagirl
Blessings from Heaven and Earth |
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tea_lady_tammy
True Blue Farmgirl
1485 Posts
Tammy
NE
USA
1485 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 6:50:53 PM
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My list would be:
1. Continue to improve in quilting.
2. Go to Italy, London, and Paris
3. Learn to garden...I don't have a green thumb at all
4. Learning to cook now...loving it
5. go to a beautiful beach
6. See the Pacific Ocean
I am sure my list will get longer
hugs
Tammy
Tea is like being in the stars with God.
http://breathsoffaith.blogspot.com |
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 7:20:56 PM
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My list would be:
1. spend the weekend all by myself
2. get my children on a liveable routine
3. finish my Mother's journals
4. make my children quilts
Farmgirl Sister #235 |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 8:45:47 PM
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Hmmmmmmm okay....alot of the things some of you listed are things I already love to do..of course I amlikely older than most of you!
my list now is:
1. learn to play piano and fiddle
2. drive a jeep ( I mean OWN one and drive it)
3. NEVER move from this house..ever. I have moved enough and love this old place
4. To see all 7 of my kids happily grown up and settled down. (the youngest ones are 13)
5. To meet my dear friend Suzy in Alabama in person
6. To make my back yard into all garden and NO grass
7. To eventually have my own preschool at my home.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
2460 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 07:57:25 AM
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I absolutely love the movie "Bucket List" and I have have had one going for quite some time. I even accomplished some of them this spring!
1. Travel to Norway
2. Travel to Wales
3. Learn to play the guitar
4. Learn how to tat
5. Learn how to Knit
6. Swim with the dolphins (Did this one in April in Cozumel, absolutely brilliant!!)
7. Sing Karaoke (Did this one in a karaoke bar on the cruise ship. Sang Muskrat Love with my BIL)
8. Visit civil war sites and participate in a civil war period re-enactment
9. Piece and hand quilt a quilt for my children and future grandchildren.
10. Cross-stitch a Paula Vaughn Bride picture for my daughter and future daughter in law.
11. Design and implement a garden retreat at my new log home.
12. Buy a new camp trailer with cash.
I'm going to be a busy bee!
Sherone
Farmgirl Sister #1682
Women are angels. When someone breaks our wings, we just jump on our broomsticks and fly! We are flexible that way! |
Edited by - sherone_13 on Jun 16 2010 08:00:39 AM |
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
1406 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 11:02:11 AM
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Mine is always on going...but here is a few things that I always come back to:
Visiting all the Presidental Libraries
Getting an Airstream RV
Going to midwifery school
Making and stock piling baby quilts for future grand babies
Seeing the Austrailia Outback
Having the perfect organic garden.....
I am sure there is more. I want to always be grateful for what I have, and to not fuss about what I don't!
Forget buns of steel, I'd rather have buns of cinnamon!
Farmgirl #680! |
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
6784 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 12:44:05 PM
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Lets see...
To learn to knit
Learn to play the guitar
learn how to crochet a shawl and a billion other things
Visit all my farmgirl friends in person
To get married and have a house ful of kids
Become a vet
open a rescue animal shelter for animals that have been hurt, etc.
And a million other things! I'm only 15 so I have tons of things I want to do.
Hugs,
Channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
Just a small town country girl trying to live her dreams. :) |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 7:20:18 PM
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I want to visit the 30 states that I haven't been to yet, return to France and take a class in French cooking there, learn to make bread well enough that it comes naturally, really learn pattern drafting and garment design, learn something new every day, and I would love to learn to play the mandolin or fiddle.
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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ijjie
True Blue Farmgirl
92 Posts
Joan
Knoxville
TN
USA
92 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 8:37:17 PM
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1. Retire and travel the country and visit all 50 states with my husbsnd
2. Finish fixing/renovating our house and land,
3. Learn to speak Chinese and visit China.
4. Own my own successful craft business.
5. Have my children settled in their adult lives with careers and family.
Lots to work on with this list!!
Joan
www.ijjie.blogspot.com; www.exploretheworld.blog.com; www.pittrock.com |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 10:50:00 PM
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Channah, I feel the exact way! There are so many things I want to do, and I'm still a teenager!
God's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal. |
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
2701 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 07:25:32 AM
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1. Travel to England
2. Learn how to make cold process soap
3. Learn how to weave baskets
4. Learn how to spin and make yarn
5. Get one of my stories published
6. Try and make everyone's life a little better by being kind, thougtful and loving. 
7. Give of myself a little more. Even though I am a very quiet, stay to myself kind of person, I try to do little kindnesses for other people through out my day.
8. Learn how to make and can jelly, jam and the like.
9, Get better at needle tatting
Among other things
Farmgirl #170
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give...Eleanor Roosevelt
http://marcysworldofcreativity.blogspot.com/
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Edited by - Marcy on Jun 17 2010 07:27:59 AM |
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sue5901
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Sue
Wellingborough
United Kingdom
122 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 08:13:57 AM
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1.Cook a meal completely made of home grown and produced items
2.Learn to spin
3.Learn to sail
4.Go solo backpacking
5.Learn to ride a horse
6.Do up a retro caravan
7. Keep my handbag tidy and organised for more than 1 week at a time
8.Travel through the Rockies
I think most of mine are achievable - except No 7!
I'm going to start making plans |
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Lin
True Blue Farmgirl
807 Posts
Lin
Sioux City
IA
USA
807 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2010 : 08:37:02 AM
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Hmmmm, let's see:
1. Have my house sorted and have NOTHING in it that I don't love or use.
2. Make time to quilt.
3. Travel to the Country Fairs and Flea Market/Antique Fairs
4. Start a business that will allow me to do all the handcrafts that I so love.
5. Help my 13 year old daughter begin to recognize her dreams of organizing an Animal Rescue.
6. Move to my country home close to the ocean, wherever that may be, and raise chickens for eggs, sheep for wool, have a horse and a cow for milk.
7. Do more volunteer work and give more to others.
8. Organize all my family pictures.
9. Become completely self sufficient.
"Our beautiful earth is worth saving"!! |
Edited by - Lin on Jun 17 2010 08:40:26 AM |
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CyndiAnn
Farmgirl in Training
17 Posts
Cyndi
Crystal
MN
USA
17 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 07:59:16 AM
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I love this! At the moment, my list is small:
learn to spin wool
learn to tat
re-learn to play guitar (it's been a long time...)
become better at all that I already do
Cyndi
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kittykill
True Blue Farmgirl
608 Posts
Pam
Portland
or
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 11:49:35 AM
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It's so great to see everyone's list!
1. Go to France
2. Sing a French Cabaret song
3. Buy a little cottage at the coast or in the country.
4. Go to every state fair.
5. Own a bakery or an antique store, vintage craft store
6. Learn to quilt
7. Learn to sew my own clothes
8. Become an accomplished writer.
9. Have a small dog rescue
10. Learn to knit a sweater.
11.This is huge and something I am working on now. I want to do an art exhibit or a documentary about how urban cities need rural areas are vice versa. I want to show that everyone around the country have connections in some way. I also want to write a book/photograph people on their family farms and document how important the history is. That should probably go to #1. It is my life long goal/dream.
www.fasterkittykill.blogspot.com
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