Bucket List or Dream List

Been playing around with graphics today... one of my favorite things you might have deduced by now.  I was playing with the title of this blog when I began thinking about the things I want to accomplish during this next phase of my life.  A bucket list if you will.  GBE2 had it as a weekly writing prompt last week.  And while I didn't get the post written then, I'm doing it now.  Day late and a dollar short as usual.  But what the hey, this is about fun, motivation, and peer response.  Deadlines be damned!

Ok, here goes:

• Number one on the list is definitely to get the book on healing MSbP abuse done and spend a while on marketing it.  
• The Gene Stratton-Porter biography is high priority too after MSbP book.
• A month of wearing wool sweaters, eating oatmeal, and writing in a stone cottage on an island (Hebrides - maybe Skye) just off the Scottish coast has always been a dream.  
• Touring through the desolate wilderness of Patagonia in South America.
• Spending a week in Paris with time spent between the Musée du Louvre  and the Museo de Orsay. 
• Redeveloping my relationship with my husband so that we are best friends again.    
• Having a garden again.
• Making bread again.
• Getting up to 400 plus as my regular score in Scrabble®.  

This is fun because I'm making it fun.  It isn't a list of things I've failed to do as yet, it is a list of things I still dream about doing.  I'm glad I'm still dreaming!  What do you dream about doing now that you are done nesting?

Happy December!

I really want to get back to FUN posting, so I'm doing NaBloPoMo this month, December 2011.  I hope to fill the month with lots of photos and fun posts about family, milestones, grandbabies, baking, and traditions. 

As an early Holiday gift, I'm posting this texture (above) that I created for use in Second Life® back a couple of Decembers ago.  Feel free to use it if you like in a craft project or other non-commercial use.

 Similarly, feel free to use this folk-craft texture made at the same time by me with the same restriction, non-commercial use.

 Same story for this one. 

And this one.