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It’s resolution time, people. I am now in the first bright and shiny year of my thirties, and boy howdy, do I have plans. Here, for your reading pleasure, is my list of 30 things I would like to accomplish before I turn 31.

1. Go somewhere I’ve never been.
2. Take 1 class a month.
   Intuitive Painting – May
   Intuitive Painting – June
   Sea Glass Painting – August
   Intuitive Painting – August
   Glass Fusing – January
   
3. Visit the west coast.
4. 30 days of minimalism challenge.
5. Have high tea in another state.
6. Have a girls only mini vacation.
7. Try 10 new restaurants.
   Blaze
   Salt Water Seafood Co
   Grain
   Liberty Bar & Restaurant
   Thai Basil
   Brick & Spoon
   Sugar
   The Edison
   Mayuri
   Green Truck Pub
   Sentient Bean
   Gnome
   Dellz
   26 Devine
   Southern Public House
   
8. Make 12 recipes from cookbooks I already own.
   Chocolate Toffee Coffee Cake
   Orange Spice Cookies
   Everyone’s Favorite Birthday Cake
   Blood Orange Tiramisu
   English Chocolate Tea Bread
   Dark Chocolate Fudge
   A Very Vanilla Sprinkle Cake
   Cinnamon Streusel Cider Muffins
   Dolly’s Doughnut Cake
   Cranberry Maple Muffins
   Irish Tea Bread
   Apple Pecan Cake
9. Make 5 projects off of my Pinterest “Craft” board
   Sharpie Mug
   Scrabble Ornament
   Jingle Bell Wreath
   T-shirt Vest
   Filled Ornaments
10. Finally, finally, FINALLY open my Etsy shop.
11. Go to a blogger meet-up.
12. Read 30 new books.
    City of the Lost – Kelly Armstrong
    Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
    The Mermaid’s Sister – Carrie Anne Noble
    Redemption Song – Craig Schaefer
    The Living End – Craig Schaefer
    Plain Dealing Villain – Craig Schaefer
    The Killing Floor Blues – Craig Schaefer
    The Spirit Class Charade – Colleen Gleason
    The Clockwork Scarab – Colleen Gleason
    The Butterfly Garden – Dot Hutchison
    The Paper Magician – Charlie N. Homberg
    The Glass Magician – Charlie N. Homberg
    The Master Magician – Charlie N. Homberg
    Play Dead – Anne Frasier
    Stay Dead – Anne Fraiser
    Pretty Dead – Anne Fraiser
    The Body Reader – Anne Fraiser
    Shes Not There – PJ Parrish
    The Moonlit Garden – Connie Bomann
    The Beaufort Bride: The Life of Margaret Beaufort – Judith Arnopp
    Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet – Charlie N. Holmberg
    The Bloodletter’s Daughter – Linda Lafferty
    The Crying Girl – Glen Ebisch
    The Storied Life of AJ Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin
    Weightless – Kandi Steiner
    The Room – Emma Donoghue
    The Heir of Linn Haug – Karen Charlton
    The Sans Pareil Mystery – Karen Charlton
    Betrayals – Kelly Armnstrong
    
13. Wear fake eyelashes.
14. Try to do 3 creative projects a week.
15. Walk on the beach and collect sea shells.
16. Get my makeup professionally done.
17. Try purple lipstick.
18. Get a tattoo.
19. Formulate a five year plan.
20. More original content for the blog.
21. Work on my photography skills.
22. Collaborate on projects with other creatives.
23. Host a Sunday brunch.
24. Get better at participating in social media.
25. Finish the gallery wall in the master bedroom.
26. Paint and decorate the guestroom.
27. Paint the guest bathroom.
28. TBD – Complete an entire puzzle
29. Make something that I can wear.
30. Get my home office to the point where I can actually work in it.

I left 28 as sort of a swing goal. Every year I run into something challenging or interesting and what better way to force myself into action than to add it to this list where I have you guys to follow along and keep me accountable. Last year I did pretty well if I do say so myself. You can check out my 29 before 30 here and see how I did.

Image from here.