Winter Bucket List

I hope to install a bird feeder on my patio this winter.

Do you like writing bucket lists?

Does writing such a list intrigue you or frustrate you? I find that dreaming about what to put on a bucket list is energizing and fun.

I wrote a Fall Bucket List this year. While I did not complete a lot of items on the list, it was fun to think about the items. It was also fun to do what I did. I am sure I accomplished more because of having this list. Some things are not season dependent, so I can do them anytime. And I have a list already made for next year!

Since it is a week into winter, it is an appropriate time to write My Winter Bucket List. I will spend the next 3 months (December 22, 2011 – March 19, 2012) having fun with the below list.

What would you add to this list? Or would your list be completely different?

Activity

• Go snowshoeing.
• Go dog sledding. 
  

  Perhaps this is the year I’ll go dog sledding.

Create

• Make snowflakes for two tree areas in BKC and/or for my sliding glass window.
• Finish afghan.
• Set up home bird feeder.
• Make a snowglobe. This waterless snowglobe is a fun alternative. Perhaps watch the movie Snowglobe. This snowglobe “cake“ made with rice krispies, this one with a “snowglobe” on top, or this flat, 2D snowglobe cake would be fun to make. How about these snowglobe cupcakes? I have got to make this adorable gift card snowglobe! I so want to make this snowglobe soap. Have you seen these snowglobes in a box? 
• Plan home-made ideas for next year’s Christmas. Some ideas might come from here. This link has 100 economical ideas for making presents at Christmas or anytime really.
• Make toothpaste with my daughter.
• Do a tea craft. I.e. a tea wreath or make my own tea bags. Or make this encaustic tea bag wall hanging. Next Christmas I’ll consider making a Tea Advent Calendar. 
• Learn to use rotary cutter (from TLM) and cut material  for quilt.
• Check out scrapbooking challenges. 
• Print out an owl calendar or from here.
• Change out Christmas card wreath for a photo wreath.

Dream

• Add this to winter bucket list.
• More things to do.

I’d like to make fortune cookies from either edible dough or felt. What fun I’d have writing the fortunes.

Food

• Make fortune cookies with fortunes. Perhaps go to the  fortune cookie factory in San Francisco.
• Get a bread machine and perfect one recipe.
• Drink my stash of teas.
• Make goody plate for neighbours.
• Make cookies that sit on rim of mug. This gingerbread house or this sweet round are 2 I’d like to try.
• Do once a month cooking 2-3 times.

Health

• Drink green smoothie 3-4 times a week for breakfast.
• Eat no later than 7 pm.
• Get organized.

Interior Design

• Rearrange my office: move furniture, buy rug and new paint, change out photos, declutter books from one bookshelf (move shelf out of office)
• Set up tea area for quick access at work.
• Declutter one home bookshelf.  Did several bookshelves so this  counted for the Fall Bucket List too.
• Pick new paint scheme for living room – match it to my mug. Paint one wall.
• Do something with hand-dyed fabric (perhaps pillows for couch).
  

  The colours in this mug make me happy. That’s why the colours of my living room will mimic the mug.

Money

• Roll coins from piggy bank. Set aside for trip to Disneyland in the fall of 2012.  I emptied my pink, plastic pig and rolled $162.00 worth of coins.
• Start saving for car

Movies

• Watch Christmas movies on my list..  ..  ..  Bush Christmas..  ..  ..  Santa Claus Conquers the Martians..  ..  ..  Midnight Clear..  ..  ..  Black Adder’s Christmas Carol..  ..  .. A Christmas Tale..  ..  ..   Holiday in Handcuffs..  ..  ..
• Watch the Oscar Nominee Movies

Photography

• Go to ice rink in Rancho Cordova and take photos. Perhaps ride the ferris wheel.
• Take a self-portrait every Thursday during the winter (Dec. 22 – Mar. 19)

Read

Renew library card. 

Read 11 books from my bookshelf. 6 of them are fiction. I learned from the last reading challenge that I enjoyed reading fiction books but don’t normally give myself permission to read them.

Fiction

• Lilah by Marek Halter 
• Sarah by Marek Halter - Don’t recommend.
• Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea MacBride (about Rose the daughter of Luara Ingalls Wilder)
• The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers
• Unspoken by Francine Rivers (about Bathsheba) – Don’t recommend.
• Unshaken by Francine Rivers (about Ruth)

What would it feel like to sit at the feet of Rabbi Jesus, sensing His power and learning firsthand about His kingdom?

Non Fiction

• Life’s Healing Choices by John Baker
• Praying Jesus’ Way by Curtis Mitchell
• Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus by Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg
• The Wonderful Spirit Filled Life by Charles Stanley
• Unmapped Darkness by Thomas Finch (I started this last Summer and want to  finish it)

Travel

• Spend a weekend at a cabin in the snow.
• Plan a 2 week trip for 2012.
• Check out local coffee breweries. Went to Insight Coffee Roasters. Check out #1 at this post for some details.
• Visit the Bay Area twice. Went 3 times.

Unfinished Projects (UFP’s)

• Do something from My Fall Bucket List. Declutter a book shelf , have a family portrait 2011 taken. and write a theological bucket list.
• Do something from my 50th birthday list.

Volunteer

• Teach someone to read and write.
• Teach craft classes.

Write

• Write bucket list and make it graphically cool.  Get ideas from here. Or this has good ideas too. Find another list here.
• Post 25 times on my blog.
• Make 2012 resolutions. 

Your Turn . . .

• What are you most excited about for winter?
• What would you add to your bucket list?

Related Posts

• 5 Reasons I Love Winter
• Summer Bucket List
• Fall Bucket List
• One Month Winter Bucket List Check Up
• Two Month Winter Bucket List Check Up
• Final Winter Bucket List Check Up
• Spring Bucket List
• Why I Don’t Have a Bucket List