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The List: Completed (mostly)

I have been working on The List from last year–and I am finally done.  Not necessarily because I completed everything on said list, but because I am out of time.  My deadline was Chinese New Year, which was on Sunday.  A few weeks ago I posted about my progress, and from the original list of 25 items I had about seven left to do.  Well, people, I didn’t complete all seven, but I did a solid four, and that has got to count for something.

Items Remaining on The List:

• Make a quilt
• Learn to ski
• Learn to make gnocchi pasta
• Photograph, organize and label the rest of my shoes.
• Try canning something like peaches or soup or something, hope for success.
• Makeover my sad, green couch, into something a little more, um, lively.
• Paint or refinish my dining table & 10 chairs…this is a BIG project.

Let’s break this down, shall we?  I tried to get some kind of photographic evidence for each of these:

1. Make a Quilt

Pink Suede Shoe helped me pick out some adorable fabric, and then she babysat me through the cutting out and sewing together parts.  Good thing to, because if left to my own devices I would have been all sorts of skeewampus.  I still need to quilt the top of this–which will be done on my sewing machine in some kind of geometric-square pattern.  But, this is done and snuggly and adorable.  I love it.

2. Learn to Ski…

…which didn’t happen.  My bad.  I did go snowshoeing this year (and have plans to go several more times before the snow is gone) and that has got to count for something, but I did not attempt skiing.  It goes back on the New List.

3. Learn to make Gnocchi Pasta

Ta-daaah!  This is done!  And it was delicious!  And I have copious amounts of gnocchi in my freezer.  To be fair, I don’t know how often I will be rolling own my own potato-pasta, it took absolutely forever.  Give me a few weeks so I can use up what’s in the freezer and I may feel differently, but for now go ahead and cross this off My List.

4. Photograph, Organize, and Label the rest of my shoes…

…Well, I have not completed this if you are going by the letter of the law/item…but I have joined Shoe Per Diem and will be posting photos of my footwear daily.  Or as close to daily as I can manage.  This goes back on The List.

5. Try canning something and hope for success

I didn’t can peaches or soup, but I did make a small batch of jalapeno jelly, which is delicious!  Again, Pink Suede Shoe babysat be through this process, let me stink up her kitchen with apple cider vinegar, and borrow her canning equipment. She’s a doll like that.  But, by the end of the morning I had 6 jars of goodness and one more thing crossed off my list.

6.  Make over my sad, green couch into something a bit more lively

This is not my sad green couch, this is my even sadder and more scary-blue-plaid couch.  I decided that it needed a little help more than the not-scary green one.  A couple of king-sized sheets from Target, a few pillows and voila! Classy couch!  I am totally counting this.

7.  Paint or refinish my dining room table and 10 chairs

You will note…there is no “After” picture.  Here is the thing, I have made the executive decision that I do not like the chairs enough to bother refinishing them.  I will strip and stain the table in a dark cherry-mahogany color, but I think I will replace the chairs with something like this:

Thoughts?

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