101 Projects

What I’ve tried:

Block Printing on Fabric
Humans of Danforth East
Learn to Make Strawberry Jam
Sew Myself a New Bag
Take a Pottery Class
Make a Swing
Take photos of plants and draw them
Learn how to make bread (I made basil bread. I should post a photo of my first attempt – too funny.)
Articulate my Values
Learn how to french braid hair
Set up mail chimp on my WordPress. Done!
Take another course through IDEO. (Insights Into Innovation.)
Take line drawing lessons online (check out the botanical line drawing book)
Wear My Joy: A Personal Project
Take the wellness quiz and write a blog post about my results & make self care circles
Sew Charlie a hat for fall
Take a Brene Brown course (the vulnerability course and another leadership one – forget the name) (finished! Sept. 2017)
Create my Lainie Room
Learn how to do fun line drawings of people (I’ve started on Skillshare!)
Figure out a fun project related to mail (i LOVE getting mail)
Take some courses through SkillShare. I think this will be ongoing. Just a few that I’ve taken so far… one, two, three, four.
Play with mixed media art (take a Skillshare class). I took what I learned and tried a self-portrait!
Sew Charlie a hat for winter
Sew hanging fabric pods (to hold mittens, toques, etc.). I did it! I just didn’t post a pic anywhere.
Make keepsakes from the kids’ car seat
Live. Love. Bake! Valentine’s Day Project
Take a writing course from Firefly Creative Writing
Make wall hangings from Grandma Beatrice’s crochet work
Create a free resource for makers
Write a free email course
Write my money story
Make my 100 rejection notes list
Make my creativity tacklebox
Make a vision board (I’ve done it and one of these days will be brave enough to share it.)
Write my story (through book spines / drawing)
write my wife story
sold what I’ve made at a craft show
hosted a mitten making workshop
hosted a printmaking workshop
designed a website for a client
went to MAC to learn more about applying makeup (bought new make up from Beauty Counter, asked questions about brushes at MAC, and have learned about applying makeup through online videos)
write my photography / travel blog post
learn more about my family
take photography classes on Skillshare

What’s on my List:

design a quilting course with Mom
~~set up mail chimp on my WordPress~~
learn how to make and edit videos in iMovie
learn how to take great portraits (photography) — take a photography class?
~~take line drawing lessons online (check out the botanical line drawing book)~~
~~make a vision board~~
put together a brand board
~~make a swing~~
~~figure out a fun project related to mail (i LOVE getting mail) – I think I have an idea…~~
~~make my 100 rejection notes list~~
~~articulate my values~~
~~write my photography / travel blog post~~
~~write my story (through book spines / drawing)~~
~~write my money story~~
~~create my Lainie room~~
~~make self-care circles (I’ve started! Will share soon.)~~
~~take the wellness quiz and write a blog post about my results~~
~~take photos of plants and draw them~~
~~take some courses through SkillShare (I’ve already started! This site is too much fun.)~~
~~take a Brene Brown course (the vulnerability course and another leadership one – forget the name) – working on one of her courses right now (September 2017)~~
~~learn how to french braid hair~~
~~learn to make bread~~
try window decorating for a business (just for fun)
~~learn how to do fun line drawings of people (I’ve started on Skillshare!)~~
sew Charlie a caterpillar dress
~~sew Charlie a hat for fall / winter~~
~~take another course through IDEO~~
~~teach a crafting class (maybe how to sew mittens from recycled sweaters?)~~
make a zine
~~go to MAC and learn more about applying makeup~~
take Caroline Winegeart’s Drawing Your Memories online course (registered!)
draw / create my writing toolbox (inspired by On Writing, by Stephen King)
~~make my creativity tacklebox~~
~~play with mixed media art (take a Skillshare class)~~
get a piece of my writing published somewhere (on another blog, in a magazine…)
~~wear my joy (I’ll explain this one soon – a project inspired by Kelly Rae Roberts)~~
write and publish a book
create resources to help others capture their family stories
~~take a writing course from Firefly Creative Writing~~
~~Live. Love. Bake! Valentine’s Day Project~~
~~Make keepsakes from the kids’ car seat~~
~~sew hanging fabric pods (for mittens, toques, etc.)~~
sew a lap quilt from mackinaws and wools
sew my Lainie quilt
~~make wall hangings from Grandma Beatrice’s crochet work~~
sew spring / summer dresses for Charlie
make a large collage piece that represents my life story (so far)
~~write a free email course~~
write and sell an online course
~~create a free resource for makers~~
get photo books done for Thatcher and Tate
keep writing in the kids notebooks
~~write my wife story~~
~~learn more about my family~~
make my own merit badges
learn how to use PhotoShop
~~take photography classes on Skillshare~~
come up with another maker project
create my own subscription service
plan a trip to Washington / Oregon / Northern California
create an online course for upcycling your own mittens
create an online course for printmaking on fabric
12 Days of Mittens
sell at another craft show at Christmas time
create a business around writing and making
sew a leather pencil case

What is 101 Lainie Projects?

101 Lainie Projects is a personal project I started to find myself again. Long story short, I’ve been feeling a little lost lately.

Inspired by an old Reader’s Digest book, I loved the idea of trying a bunch of different projects (at least 101!) and doodling the tools needed in the front cover.

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Doodles inside my project book

I’ve been taking classes that interest me. Making stuff. I’m reading more. And even though it feels a bit weird to do, I’ve been sharing as I go along. Maybe it might encourage someone else to start their own personal project? It will also force me to keep going.

I’ve been dabbling, experimenting, and learning — which is very Lainie (hence the name change of my blog – formerly called Hodgepodge).

On this page, I’ll keep an ongoing list of the projects I’ve tried and what I’m still looking forward to trying.