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NEW challenges for the NEW year..and what I’m into lately

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Happy NEW year! (How can it be Jan 10th already!?!)

I don’t particularly do “resolutions” but I do like a good challenge. It makes things fun. So here are my 2025 challenges:

Reading challenges:

Read at least 52 books

Read 12 books in the 12 different time periods suggested at “When Are Your Reading Challenge)

Read all books by a certain author (I think my best shot at doing this is reading all of Susan Meissner’s books).

Travel challenges:

I already have my travel challenges ongoing. Visiting 100 waterfalls and all of the National Parks. We’ll be doing quite a bit of traveling this year, so I’m sure it will be easy to add to these lists, but here are a few marked for this year:

Visit Acadia NP, New River Gorge NP, Indiana Dunes NP, Cuyahoga Valley NP, Shenandoah NP and Gateway Arch NP.

And of course, visiting Iguazu Falls is happening this year. Yay!

Physical challenges:

Do another (or multiple) 30-day steps challenge (might be easy as we’re hiking to waterfalls!).

Do a 30-day yoga challenge

Ride on 20 (NEW-to-you) bike trails.

And lastly, what am I into???

Junk journals and art journals! I LOVE looking on Pinterest at creative art journals and watching videos about making junk journals. I’ve got one of each started (one art journal and one junk journal). My plan is for the junk journal to be vintage looking and I’ll be answering questions from a book my son gave me a few years ago called, “Tell me your story, MOM”. The art journal will be more vibrant and I will do some decoupage, watercolor, digital art, and other types of art. I created all of the images in this post with AI (Midjourney). I will use the image above as a focal point in one of my collages. That might seem like cheating, but anything goes in my journals, haha!

That’s it for my 2025 plans. My interests might change next week and I might be into something totally NEW and different! I’ll let you know. Maybe sometime I should do a blogging challenge and try to update this site a bit more regularly, haha! Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day and that you get to learn or do something NEW today! Take care!

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday!

Here’s another photo from our Labor Day weekend trip.  Toquerville Falls ATV’n was on Saturday, and we went on another ATV ride on Monday, but up in the mountains that day.  This beautiful view is from a mountain property my family owns.  We’re dreamin’ of putting some sort of get-away shack right here (if only the Forest Service road getting there was passable with anything other than ATVs – so we could actually get supplies up there to build our get-away shack!). Drreeeaam…dream, dream, dream.

Other random stuff:

Although I’m trying to get more fish in my diet, I recently learned that tilapia isn’t something I should be eating. Darn, because it’s pretty cheap and easy to prepare.  But here’s a video explaining why it’s actually pretty unsafe (and gross)…HERE.  Can I just get someone to be my personal chef – to cook or prepare good food for me, so I don’t have to worry about what to eat – or what not to eat!?!  That would be heaven!

I’m such a wanna-be artist!!! I’m currently obsessed with watching YouTube videos of people working on their art journals.  I really should stop watching videos about it and dive in and start me one!  My excuse is…I really need to learn what Gesso and Matte Gel is first – then I’ll start my own!  I’ve enjoyed watching Vicky Papaioannou and Donna Downey.  Do any of you have any tips and tricks before I go for it?

And that’s about it.  Have a great week ahead.  Do or learn something NEW!