Will I finish?



Oh My!!!   20 more days, 1 more goal

Goal # 83:  Be working on the bed spread that I bought 6 years ago (counted cross stitch)

I bought this about 8 years ago.  I'm glad I made it a goal so I

was motivated to get it done.  The picture shows what it is supposed

to look like when I'm done.  In between the flowers there is pink lace tied into

a bow.  I don't think it will take me too long to finish it now that I

have completed one of the roses.  It is going to be very pretty.

 

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Goal # 30:  Convert tapes to CD"s

These are ones that didn't make the cut to be re-recorded.  Unfortunately they

met the garbage can face to face, however I kept the covers that were

still in good conditions.  There are numerous things they can be used for.

Some of them are holding things like earphones etc. and looks a

lot better in my drawer than snack bags with cords in them.  Lorin

hooked one of the bigger cases to the bed to hold his iphone at night. Smart!!

 

 

These few below were worth listening to. I used the same program that

I use to do the music for the movies I make.  It is called "Wave Pad Sound

Editor".  It is fairly easy and the fact that I have used it before helped.  I got

 a tape player and hooked it up with a cable to my computer which let

me copy the tape into the program with no problems. 

Thanks for helping me Lorin.  The only thing I don't know

about is that it recorded as an extension .wav, which I'm not

sure if it will play on the car stereo.  Does anyone know?  I guess I'll record

one and see what it plays on.  It was a lot of fun.  I love that I'm learning so

many new things that I wouldn't have tried if I hadn't made these goals. 

Thanks Tish for inviting me to join you in the challenge.

 

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Goal # 86:  Have Tish give me a copy of "Book of Dad's art"



Actually I revised the goal because I don't want Tish to "give" me

a copy, but I got my copy in the mail, and I love it!!!  Great job Tish

on putting it together.  I love that all the pictures are together in one place now.

I had forgotten how many pictures he had drawn,

and how good they are.  Lorin and I looked at it together and he

was also surprised how many picture there were and how talented

Don was.  It is really an awesome book.  Thanks Tish for making it.

 

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Goal # 13:  Sew a new skirt

I have to admit that I really was wishing I hadn't written this

as one of my goals.  There are a few reasons, laziness, easier to

buy a skirt than to make one, list goes on.  Well, Lorin and I went

hunting for material to use and a pattern, which isn't an easy task. 

We finally found some material, but I couldn't find a pattern.  We had

been shopping in Idaho Falls a week or so earlier, so I decided to use

a skirt I bought for a pattern.  Easy right?

 

 

I racked my brain for when I used to make up my own patterns, when

my kids were small, and decided to just go for it.  I didn't actually

make a pattern, I just laid the skirt on the material and started cutting. 

 Somewhat surprising that it turned out. 

The finished product next to the inspiration.

 

 

Different views of how it fits

 

I wore it to church Sunday and I am pleased with

the results.  The bottom picture is the church look.

As an added bonus I found this sweater on sale at

K-mart for $1.99 on Friday.  I think it was an omen.

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Whew!!!!!

Whew!!!  Time is running out

Things I've been working on:

 

Goal #28:  Finish the home movies that I'm making.

I really enjoy making movies on the computer, but they take a long time.  I

worked on this one for about 4 weeks.  Actually the thing that takes so long

is finding the music.  I'm not extremely happy with some of the music, so I may

change a couple of them later.  It was a lot of fun.

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Goal # 71:  Buy frames and put up the family pictures that Lorin and I talked about.

We bought these frames about a year ago and have just had them sitting around

the house.  Of course we didn't have any pictures that would fit in the spaces on

the frame, so we went online and found "infraview" that helped us size them and

then we printed them.  It was a lot of fun and I feel like I learned a lot from this goal.

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Goal #70:  Decorate living room and sun room 

We didn't actually hang these in the front room, but they are in the hallway so you

can see them when you walk in the front door.  We knew we needed something

to hang with them so we went to Beehive Book and found this frame.  I like it

because it has the Rexburg Temple, the one Lorin and I served together in for

a couple of years.  Wonderful memories!!!!!!

 

We hung this picture about a year ago, but didn't have anything to hang with

it so it looks pretty bare.  We knew we needed more pictures to hang here.

 

I really love the ocean so we looked around and found a long poster

of the ocean that also had a bit of a sunset.  We made two pictures out

of it and then had to find a couple of frames.  I think that Oak frames are no

longer in style, so we bought a couple that we thought would look ok.

We don't have many in the house that match so we are "mis-matching" matching.

 

Here you can see the ocean view with the sunset.  Also you can see

my shadow in the big picture.  I am just a great photographer :(

I took this picture through the mirror above the piano.

 

This is the wall just above my piano.  Looks pretty bare.

 

I had this mirror before I married Lorin and it had been stuffed

behind a dresser in the workout room.  I think it looks really good

hanging here.  Again frames that don't match.

 

We actually fixed this room quite a while ago, but I haven't posted a picture of it yet.

 

We are pleased with the things we have done to decorate so far, but there is more

that we are talking about doing as time goes on.  We had a lot of fun shopping,

hanging, and decorating together.

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Goal # 91:  Work on the Fowler family history

So, I went to Family Tree and started going through the Fowler lines.

From what I can tell the work has been done, is pending, or

multiple spouses on the direct line.  I didn't think I should go on

any indirect line to make any changes since I am not blood line with

the Fowlers.  I don't have the documentation to compare with what is

on the computer, so I won't pursue this any further.

 

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Three more goals (One changed)

Go golfing: Goal #41

(changed to typing papers that I've written to get them in the computer)

 

With Lorin's back hurting so bad, I changed this goal because it

isn't much fun to golf alone.  I really hope we can go next summer

though.  I'm making another list to do after I get these done, so I'm

going to add this one to it; also this one was much more time consuming.
 

I don't keep a journal, but when I have experiences I write them down. 

I had some recent ones typed into the computer, however I wanted to

get them all typed so I could print them to keep in a binder.  I also

copied them onto a CD, then made a case insert for it.  

 

 

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Goal # 56:  Finish movie dvd collection

  While Misti and Kevin were here at Christmas, we went

shopping at Target in Idaho Falls. We were in the movie section

and I found these last two movies for my collection.  After Target

we went to her favorite place to eat, Red Robin. 

 

 

What a fun time we had while they were here.

Thanks Kevin and Misti and Myra. 

 

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 Goal # 53:  Try a new hobby

I thought it would be fun to make some jewelry.  I copied a

lot of ideas from pinterest and found this paper at Porter's

so I decided to try watch beading first.  It was a lot of fun and

after the first one it is pretty easy to do the second one.  I

still want to try some neclaces and bracelets. Also I found a

very cute pair of snowman earrings that I'm going to make for

next holiday season.  There are a couple of items that I am going

to have to look for before I can make them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've worn them each a couple of times and they haven't fallen

apart yet, so I guess they are good to go.

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10 more goals to go-wish me luck!!!!!!!



Goal #5 and #21

Time is running out!

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry, ARG!!!!!!!!!

I admit I'm starting to panic with so little time left to complete my goals.  Well here is a couple more that I have completed.

GOAL #5:  Do my mending/altering

This goal was very time consuming because of the large amount

of clothing that didn't fit good at all.

Here are a few waiting in the sewing room for me to get going.

These two sweaters were the same.  The one on the top shows how

much altering I did on them.

This is a before and after picture of the same shirt

Remodeled.  The lighting was different so it looks more blue here.

This is most of the clothes I remodeled in some way. 

Another view of the same clothes.  As you can see there are shirts, sweaters, and pants.

I still have a few pieces of clothes that could be altered, but not now.

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GOAL # 21:  Remodel my Jewelry

As it turned out I only had a few pieces that I decided were worth

working on.  This neclace came apart on both ends, but I forgot about

the picture until I already had one end done. 

It was supposed to be fairly simple, but as I was trying to

open the clasp thingy on the end it broke in half.  I had

 to scrounge around and find one on another piece of

jewelry that I decided wasn't worth fixing.

I have to admit I forgot to take pictures of the other couple pieces.

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A couple of fun goals

 

Goal # 75 - Add to my lighthouse collection

 

Ok, I got on e-bay and found some lighthouses that I liked.  I haven't had

experience with the whole bidding thing, so I put a bid on

all the ones I liked that I could afford.  Well No one bid on 3 of them

so I was the highest bidder.  The Christmas one had a few bids

and it is the one I wanted the most, so with the help of Tish

(and Aaron & Lorins experience) I learned the art of bidding on

e-bay and became the highest bidder.  YES!!!!! 

Top right is Thomas Kinkade-Bottom right is Boston Light (Bradbury Mint)-

Christmas is Harbour Lights Limited Edition-Top left is just one I bid on

and no-one bid on it so it was mine.  They are all pretty and in the curios cabinet.

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Goal # 51 - Learn more about my camera

I read 179 pages of the manual of features my camera has.  I had no idea it could

do so many things.  Below is a feature that you can make a panorama from

pictures.  I used Photo stitch that was downloaded on my computer.

I will use it again because it was extremely easy-

didn't know I had this feature.

 

 

My first try-didn't get the last two pictures lined up exactly right.  I'll do better next time.

 

This feature is with color enhancement. 

Sepia, Black & white, vivid green, vivid red,

 vivid almost any color, etc.

 

Vivid Color-not a whole lot of difference but enough to use.  I told

Lorin we have to go back to southern Utah now and retake all the pictures.

 

Bottom is regular, top right is vivid blue, 

top left is vivid color - very slight difference.

 

If you have a face that is washed out you can use the

"darker skin tone" effect. It also has a "lighter skin tone" effect. 

 

I can change the exposure to compensate for darker areas and lighter areas.

I know I will use this one.  Needed this one at Hoover Dam.

 

There are a lot more features. Special scene modes

include aquarium, beach, fireworks, foliage, indoor, kids & pets,

night, portrait (with this one is face recognition),snow,

sunset, underwater.  One that I'm sure I will be using is

that I can add voice tags to the picture.  From now on there

is now excuse for shooting bad pictures.

 

 





Some goals take time

Goal # 78 - Make a movie of places Lorin & I have been

Sounds like something that should take a day or two, right?  Maybe for some, but for me it took a month.  The hardest part was coming up with music to go with the pictures.  It needs to be interesting to listen to because there are a lot of pictures.

It was a lot of fun (sometimes a little frustrating) and I am pleased with the result.  It seems like you learn with each project that you try and as I was watching the burned DVD I found some things I would have changed.  Live and Learn....

In the picture below there are two pictures of the program I used
to make the movie, two of the DVD with the cover I made, the other two are the case inserts-front and back.  

Goal # 64 - Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day for a week at a time 6 times 

This is the cup I kept in the fridge because I don't like the temperature of tap water.  I was having a hard time drinking enough water so finally this idea came to me and it worked very well; get thirsty - go to the fridge - get a big drink of cold water.

I will keep it there so I drink more water.

A few more goals completed

Goal # 6 -  Polish Nails 2 times a month for 6 months and

Gaol # 12 - Get a manicure

I didn't take pictures of the 6 months of polishing my nails.  On the 10th of July I took grandma to Evans beauty college to get her pedicure and I did a manicure while she got the pedicure.  I will get pedicures from now on because they do the manicures on one end of the building and the pedicures on the other end, therefore we weren't together. I have to say I did not get a very good job done.I guess that is what you get when you got to the beauty college instead of a salon.  I have mom go to the school because they are much more gentle with her than the salon was.

I need lotion bad!!!!

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Goal # 62 - Watch movies we bought with Lorin

We had a video rental  place in Rexburg that went out of business and they were selling the used videos and games.  Out of curiousity we went in and were able to find numerous shows that sounded interesting. They were mostly $1:00 & $2:00 each.   After watching them we decided there were some much more interesting than others. Here's a list in order of interest, in my opinion.
The Brotherhood, My Sister's Keeper, Flight of the Intruder, The Cincinnati Kid, The Family Man, Four Christmases, Where Eagles Dare, American Outlaws, Bad Company, The Box, Cold Sweat, Mazes & Monsters.
It took a while to watch them and we were very entertained-a little popcorn, soda, comfy couch, and each othere's company.  Pretty fun time.

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Goal # 32 - Organize Memory Manager

This took a long time.  I had scanned all my pictures into Memory Manager on the computer, and put them in seperate folders which took me many months and then I enhanced the old ones to make them look better.  My computer started running very slowly so I thought it had too many pictures on it, so I downloaded it all onto a exterior hard drive and then deleted it out of my computer along with the program.  BAD MISTAKE!!!!!  I lost all the pictures I had entered in to the program.  They wouldn't work for some reason.  Well I had to re-download the program, make new folders for the different pictures, scan all the pictures back in (I scanned them in 3-8 pictures at a time, so I had to make 2-7 copies of each scan to have enough copies to seperate them all), and enhance them all again.  This too took many months of almost daily working on them.

This time I was a little smarter and burned them onto DVD's.  There is a Fowler Vault, Hales Vault, and a Gutke Vault. They will stay on my computer in Memory Manager having learned that the pictures wasn't the cause of the slowness anyway.  Live and Learn.