I love this idea and I can't wait to see what you create!! Now to make decisions on what I will do.....
Well, it is the 23rd. Who is doing this project? I am but I started on February 5. I was ready to get to my counted cross stitch project. I actually started this project back in 1990 but put it away in 1992 when I stopped doing cross stitch. I went back to cross stitching last year and decided to finish this project. It is a series of 50 small projects that are relatively easy to stitch. I've refocused the final display of the project since my first vision doesn't appeal to me anymore. What I am doing. A cross stitch for every state in the USA. How am I going to display it... well, I've decided to only display the states that I have visited but be able to add on to it as I visit more. Thankfully due to my mom making photo albums for me from birth to age 18, I can pretty much put the states in order as to when I visited them! When I started stitching again last summer, I had already stitched 6 of the states I have been to. I finished another 4 before I took a break during December and January. I can say that I have stitched for at least 5 minutes every day since February 5. I've been doing it in the evenings while watching TV. I have completed 2 more states and started on a third one last night.
That sounds amazing!! I love that you're doing the states you've been to and adding more as you visit them! I also love that, thanks to your mom, you can put them in order! I'm in! I thought about knitting, but after doing the temperature blanket last year, I decided that was enough of that for a bit. I wanted to do something different. So, I picked up my DSLR again after probably more than a year of not using it. I hope to take at least one photo every day with it. I haven't left the house today, so my dog became my subject. She was less than thrilled, but here she is
Here's what my cross-stitch project looks like now. Let's see how much I get done over the next 100 days.
I did it last year, a physical art journal page each day, I was going okay up until around Day 60 when I decided to start doing some hybrid pages where I could create them in Photoshop and then just add some embellishments! lol! I was starting to fall behind. Life is too busy for me this year so I won't be doing it but I am still doing some art each day. Even though it was stressful at times, I really did enjoy doing it and it did get me out of my slump, enough to go on and make another small art journal with around 60 pages afterwards and then two smaller ones. I rearranged all of paper pieces supplies so they are close by and each evening while watching shows on the computer I can open the journal I am working on, grab my glue stick and start gluing stuff onto a page. If I want to add wet mixed media stuff I do that on the weekend when I can spread everything out on my desk near the window and then do a few pages at a time from different journals. Here are a couple examples of the pages I did during last year's 100 day project.
Oh and I meant to add, it really doesn't matter 'what' you do each day, as long as it is 'creative' in some way. You don't have to complete a page or project in one day, like you could start a real life painting if you wanted to and then each day add some brush strokes to it. The main objective is to get into a routine of working creatively each day so there is no need to set yourself up for failure by challenging yourself to start and finish one project each day. I began by starting two pages, the next day I would finish one off and then the next day work on page 2 and then start another page and so on ........... when I say starting a page, for me it was simply to start glueing paper pieces onto a page etc. The next day I might have used my pen to make marks and/or spread some gesso over the paper pieces ................ at one time I think I had about 4 or 5 pages going......... as I finished them off they became Day 1, Day 2 etc. - that doesn't mean that they were all 'started OR finished' in one day if you know what I mean. The bottom line is ............ it's YOUR challenge, YOUR rules, do want YOU want to do in YOUR own way! Have fun!
Have you heard of The100DayProject? Yes as far back as in 2016 Have you ever participated? Yes, twice! I did 100 days of coffee in 2016- ie I took a photo of me with my coffee cup (or just the cup) every day for 100 days... was fun! I did it again a few years later (I think it was 2019) when I did quilling projects for the 100 days (mainly cards). I can't say I am a prolific crafter to do this again or 100 days but in one way I do scrap most days so that would count... I just don't share my layouts every day.
Thanks for reminding, @HavaDrPepper I have started, and doing for a while, will update here, once I scrap about the first few days.. Might not scrap about every day, but will do my first scrap soon. Can't wait what creativity you are up to. Angela this cross stitch is a beautiful beginning, can't wait for updates, Ona, your pages from last project - beauty!
@zinzilah Oh my gosh, Olga! Those are absolutely fantastic!! I'm a day behind because my camera battery died lol. Should have been the first thing I checked, I guess!
Have you heard of The100DayProject? I have now! Have you ever participated? No but I want to do it with journaling!
I'm still stitching every day. I started on Feb 5 instead of the start day the actual project used so I'm on day 62. I've finished 6 of the states (almost finished with #7). 2 more on my want to get done list which should be doable. I just paid for my trip for the next 2 states on my list today so I could work on them when I've finished all the states that I have actually been to. To document that I have actually been stitching, I've been taking a photo at the end of the day which shows my progress.
@zinzilah and @HavaDrPepper I'm so impressed and cheering you on. I fell off a couple of weeks in I need to put more thought in to next year or jsut start something on my own timeline.
