Lili’s Life Menu

Take a year off and travel the US in an RV, taking pictures every where

• Blog on said travels and submit work to travel and tourism sites
• Open my refurb store, or something similarly crafty
  
• Blog for a living
• Take Brendan to another country
• Get back into Country-Western dancing
• Take 50 pictures for my grills, wheels and headlights series  This list can be found here
• Go para-sailing
  
• Create a photography book
• Create a studio that constantly inspires me to create in any art median
•  Join a photography meet-up group
• Create a better website, that is easier to add to
• Take a website building course
• Sell my crafts
• Go back to Charleston, SC and visit the downtown market
• Take a picture a day (I tried doing this, it is very hard)
  
• Organize pictures better
• Have a craftsman style house with a detached garage to have as a work space
• Take 100 pictures for my entryway series   This list can be found Bienvenido
  
• Go on a monthly adventure with Brendan and our cameras
• Do what I want on my birthday at least once, not worrying about what anyone else wants
• Do something outside of my comfort zone (I submitted my photos to Expo NM: the State Fair, and am working on another photo show)
  
• Learn to weld
• Learn to do glass blowing
• Take a pottery class
• Write a children’s book
• Create a coloring book
• Take a cartoon drawing class with Brendan
• Go scuba diving in the Caribbean
• Eat gelato in Italy again
• Ride the Sandia Tram with Brendan
• Float down a river on inner tubes with Brendan
• Find an old bike to photograph
• Have a porch swing on my house at some point
• Take ballroom dancing lessons
• Leave 20 inspirational cards around town
• Participate in a walk for the cure
• Donate some of my wreathes to local charities for auction
• Donate a photo to a not-for-profit (borrowed from Karen)
• Say hello to at least one stranger a day (easy to do now that I greet people at work)
• List at least 1 thing I am grateful for every day
• Continually keep a journal
• Visit Spain
• Sing karaoke at least once
• Finish Brendan’s 2nd scrapbook
• Let myself be loved when I meet the right man
• Leave a present in a mailbox at least once a year
• Tell Brendan I love him everyday
• Have a beach house that overlooks the water at sunset, with a big bay window where my desk can sit
• Live abroad for a year
• Volunteer
• Be in charge of something involving Brendan
• Attend a blogging conference
• Publish a helpful book
• Have a dinner party
• Join a bunko or reading group
• Visit Greece
• Have a romantic picnic
• Attend a Broadway show in NYC
• Have Hot Chocolate at Serendipity during Christmas time
• See Time’s Square at Christmas time
• Go ice skating
• Create an A-B-C wall for a classroom
• Read to a kid’s group
• Host a Girl’s Night Out creating session
• Get a professional picture done with Brendan
• Give out 40 gifts to strangers on my 40th birthday (I decided to do this mostly Random Act of Kindness style and loved every minute of it)
• Acquire some OLD cameras  (I have acquired 1)
• Learn my camera
• Prepare my photos for an exhibition (I entered 3 at Expo NM, the state fair)
  
• Enter a photography contest (I use ViewBug)
• Write a guest post for a photography blog
• Shoot 5 big cities at night
• Learn how to really use Photoshop  (Elements 12 is making it a lot easier to use)
• Create an online portfolio like SmugMug (here)
• Print a photo large and hang it (it’s hanging in my mom’s house)
  
• Continue to update my photography bucket list
• List 20 locations I would like to photograph, ever changing