My Life List
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 9:08AM We started this business last year with the tag line: "Live life the way you picture it." It can be taken literally in the sense that our camera bags allow you to "picture your life" with more ease. But more importantly, it's about the idea that your life is waiting for you to make it yours. "What do you intend to do with your one precious life"?
The first part of this post can be found here. Thanks again to Maggie, who is inspiring people all over the world to make life more fun.
I wanted some kind of physical representation of my list around because 1. I love stuff that's visual. And 2. It serves as a reminder to keep at it. The butterflies are totally not my idea, but cute right?
The wall in my office:
As I complete them, I'll put them in here. Now that I'm thinking about it, this should've maybe been a bucket.
I wanted to start off with two things that I could easily check off, which I have no inclination to ever do in my lifetime. :)
1. Don’t run a marathon.
2. Don’t go on a cruise.
3. Leave an inspire card in 100 random places.
4. Lean how to use my mac and consolidate.
5. Stay in a cabin where there are masses of fire flies.
6. Photograph another celebrity.
7. Re-do the family room.
8. Have a photo session with my sister.
9. Purchase a square dining table.
10. Do six photo sessions with my kids within 12 months.
11. Spend a vacation with my mom and sister and family.
12. Sponsor one life list thing for five people.
13. Give something away 1x a week for 6 months.
14. Photograph a family in Chinatown, SF. (sort of)
15. Throw away all my inauthentic clothes.
16. Purchase a wardrobe that I’m in love with.
17. Spend a weekend at a dude ranch.
18. Re-do the kids’ rooms.
19. Photograph grown sisters.
20. Drink a Guinness in an Irish pub.
21. See the pyramids.
22. Learn conversational Spanish.
23. Go to church four times in six weeks.
24. Let someone take a portrait of me.
25. Host an adult dinner that includes candlelight.
26. Go on an african safari.
27. Host an anniversary party near a beach.
28. Install new flooring in the house.
29. Finally find a hairstyle and color that I love.
30. Learn yoga.
31. Take the family to NYC.
32. Get together with my high school girlfriends.
33. Take a road trip.
34. Create a line of greeting cards.
35. Take my girls to the ballet.
36. Visit Spain.
37. Visit Italy.
38. Photograph ten small towns.
39. Photograph ten big cities.
40. Stay at the Borgo La Fornace.
41. Learn the tango.
42. Create ten new Epiphanie designs.
43. Draw pencil sketches of my children.
44. Go to Tokyo.
45. Eat chow fun on Maui.
46. Visit Peninsula Bay, New Zealand.
47. Take the kids to South Padre again.
48. Host a party that generates money for a charity.
49. Go to a photo workshop.
50. Purchase an original painting by Kal Barteski.
51. Take a hip hop class.
52. Re-do my bedroom.
53. Learn to play a song on the guitar.
54. Make sure my kids are bi-lingual.
55. Purchase a timeshare in Maui.
56. Purchase a lake house.
57. Swim with bioilluminescent plankton. (stolen from maggie)
58. Visit England.
59. Go dancing in Austin.
60. Create an inviting backyard.
61. Visit France.
62. Renovate the bathroom.
63. Go to Mexico again.
64. Stay at the Rockhouse in Jamaica.
65. Go on an antique-ing adventure.
66. Photograph my sister’s family.
67. Photograph another birth.
68. Visit my childhood home in Kaupakalua, Maui.
69. Ride a camel in the desert.
70. Go to Rwanda.
71. Ride in a hot air balloon.
72. Photograph a day in the life of ten moms.
73. Stay at the Amayara.
74. Hear Elizabeth Gilbert Speak.
75. Ride in a helicopter.
76. Stomp grapes.
77. Visit the Meditteranean.
78. Go to Bali.
79. Fully experience Fiesta in San Antonio.
80. Go parasailing again.
81. Re-do my portrait website.
82. Swim with dolphins
83. Ride an elephant.
84. Organize a retreat.
85. Take the kids to the Houston Space Center
86. Go on 5 dates to new places in downtown San Antonio.
87. Stop eating white flour and sugar for 30 days
88. Make a slideshow of my family photos for 2010.
89. Visit all 50 states.
90. See the aurora borealis.
91. Take an art class.
92. Shoot a gun.
93. Experience a white Christmas.
94. Create a unique tradition for every holiday.
95. Do a family session for Genevieve Gorder. (is that stalker-y? Love her.)
96. Go to a Spurs game.
97. Visit wreckage of the Titanic aboard a submarine.
98. Learn to play the harmonica.
99. Go to the Kentucky derby.
100. See U2.
101. Have our family photographed by Tara Whitney.
Reader Comments (71)
I LOVE your list! This is such a great idea! I am definitely doing one now! :)
Is it bizarre to say that I think that we might be twins separated at birth??? My friend (Lori M - you are shooting her family portraits this fall!) first t old me about you and how much you reminded her of me - then I visited your blog and think we'd be besties if we met- haha! I love your list :)
jen :)
How do I make those butterflies?
This is a wonderful (and inspiring) life list. I thought I was the only person in the world who had a "square dining table" obn theirs!
This is a beautiful List! i especially love the first two items perfect! Those butterflies are adorable.
I am going to do your #34 as well it is my #16
Hope you will come take a look at my list
Thanks everyone! Kiki, the butterflies were traced and cut out by hand. Half way through I realized I was insane and that there's probably a much better solution online. At the time I just wanted them done now now now. Laura, lucky duck. Square tables are the best, no one gets left out at the end and they're cuter than round!
love your list - i love that i could cross some of those off.
hope your butterflies find beautiful places to land
Wonderful list. I think I will post mine on my blog soon. I have it on paper, but it would be fun to make it public. I love the butterflies!
I share your disinterest in running a marathon or going on a cruise. Maybe I'll think of a couple of backwards items for my list too!
If you go to the Kentucky Derby, I will meet you there. Also a friend of mine owns a beach house in Outerbanks NC if you're interested for future family / friends getaways since it has 7 bdrms.
I am totally with you on NOT running a marathon, but I would like to go on a cruise...maybe a nice big sailboat one. Of course, here I am starting my list on your blog...
fabulous list! i hope your life wishes come true.
if you ever make it to 58, you could do 19 while you're here with my sister and me. pretty please x.
OH MAN! I'm on your list!!
(I also have a birth coming up and it would be so cool if you could photograph it!)
Just saying.
I love the butterflies. Truly! Awesome list and I hope you don't mind if I just follow along a little!
I can help w/ #19! I'm one of 8, grown sisters. Think how much fun WE would be to photograph!
I wish I could be as creative, but since I don't have a creative bone in my body
I"m going to use this idea too. I tend to keep notes to myself with my lifeplan in the "Awesome Notes" app on my iPhone, but this would definitely spruce up the wall in my bedroom and help me to remind me of my goals as well. I also like the idea that you added yourself, with the jar!
I'm so glad I found this site, I'm ready to purchase one of these bags. I eventually want to get them in all colors. Hopefully, there will be a backpack version.
There are TONS of dude ranches out there to choose from, but this one is truly amazing : http://www.sweetgrassranch.com/
Amazing people, amazing riding and one of the most beautiful places on earth. I worked here during summers for nearly a decade and they were some of the most incredible summers of my life. I recommend late June to mid July: the chance for snow diminishes greatly, the wildflowers are still blooming and the river is perfect for floating...
I love your list and I am so inspired to make my own.
I love your list.
I am also volunteering my sister and I to be the grown sisters you photograph. :-)
I love this idea!!!! You're so creative. I never would have thought to do something like this.