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
- designed a website for a friend
- designed a website for a family friend
- 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
- learn how to make and edit videos
- put together a brand board
- write and sell an online course
- sew a leather pencil case
- create an online course for printmaking on fabric
- create my own subscription service
- come up with another maker project (5 Postcards, 5 Days!)
- keep writing in the kids notebooks
- create a business around writing and making
- designed a quilting course with Mom
- sewed a family wall hanging
- designed another website for a client
- took a writing course with Ann Douglas
- project Make the House Cozy
- completed #the100dayproject 2018
- completed #the100dayproject2019
- took Meghan Genge’s Magical Eating online course
- took Meghan Genge’s In Cahoots online course
- took tarot card course with Susannah Conway
- make cabbage rolls
- 12 Days of Mittens
- sell at another craft show at Christmas time
- get photo books done for Thatcher and Tate
- wrote a family book for the kids
- create the documentation books for the kids
- create a 30 day email course: How to Document Childhood
- learn how to screen print tees
- took the Radical Rest Rhythms course
- create an online course for upcycling your own mittens
- print some holiday cards
- create resources to help others capture their family stories
- create an online course: write your love story
- helping someone write their life story
- facilitated an online community for a year through The Search for Self
- was a guest on a podcast
- submitted a pitch to a publisher
- applied for a business mentorship program and was accepted
- created a studio space
- built a window bench and built-ins
- bought new decor for our house (redesigning spaces)
- redecorated Charlie’s room
- reorganized the boys’ room
- recreated the Very Lainie website
- recreated The Search for Self website
- sewed masks for the local hospital
- figured out Restrict Content Pro
- tried breathwork for the first time
- did Kelly Rae’s Wear your Joy online course
- started going to a chiropractor
- did a year ahead reading with cards
What’s on my List:
design a quilting course with Momset up mail chimp on my WordPress- l
earn how to make and edit videos take line drawing lessons online (check out the botanical line drawing book)make a vision boardput together a brand boardmake a swingfigure out a fun project related to mail (i LOVE getting mail) – I think I have an idea…make my 100 rejection notes listarticulate my valueswrite my photography / travel blog postwrite my story (through book spines / drawing)write my money storycreate my Lainie roommake self-care circles (I’ve started! Will share soon.)take the wellness quiz and write a blog post about my resultstake photos of plants and draw themtake 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 hairlearn to make breadlearn how to do fun line drawings of people (I’ve started on Skillshare!)sew Charlie a hat for fall / wintertake another course through IDEOteach a crafting class (maybe how to sew mittens from recycled sweaters?)go to MAC and learn more about applying makeupmake my creativity tackleboxplay with mixed media art (take a Skillshare class)- draw / create my writing toolbox (inspired by On Writing, by Stephen King)
- 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 storiestake a writing course from Firefly Creative WritingLive. Love. Bake! Valentine’s Day ProjectMake keepsakes from the kids’ car seatsew hanging fabric pods (for mittens, toques, etc.)- sew my Lainie quilt
make wall hangings from Grandma Beatrice’s crochet workwrite a free email coursewrite and sell an online coursecreate a free resource for makersget photo books done for Thatcher and Tatekeep writing in the kids notebookswrite my wife storylearn more about my family- learn how to use PhotoShop
take photography classes on Skillsharecome up with another maker projectcreate my own subscription service- plan a trip to Washington / Oregon / Northern California
create an online course for upcycling your own mittenscreate an online course for printmaking on fabricmake cabbage rolls12 Days of Mittenssell at another craft show at Christmas timecreate a business around writing and makingsew a leather pencil casewrite the family book for the kidsprint some holiday cards- learn how to sew my own clothing (tunic / shift dresses)
learn how to screen printcreate the documentation books for the kidscreate a 30 day email course: How to Document Childhood- write my life story for the kids
- collaborate with other women to offer something great
- build a community
- offer writing workshops
- help people write family books
- help people write childhood books for their kids
What is 101 Lainie Projects?
101 Lainie Projects is a personal project I started to find myself again. Long story short, I had been feeling a little lost.
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.
I took classes that interested me. Made stuff. I started reading more.
On this page, I’ve kept an ongoing list of the projects I’ve tried and what I’m still looking forward to trying.
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