101 in 1001

Here is my list of challenges for the next 1001 days. I will blog about each task i have completed I'm hoping at the end of my 1001 days i will be more skilled in crafts and cookery and have a lot of fun along the way

 Last updated 17th January 2014
1 Renew my passport - Completed 12/10/12
2 Make a birthday cake for a friend
3 Make my own sushi
4 Bake a cake  - Completed 17/3/12
5 Go a week without coffee - Completed 25/2/12
6 Make a pizza from scratch - Completed 21/1/12
7 Drink 5 cocktails I've never tried before - 1.elderflower saketini 2. Apple &
Elderflower Martini 3. Dirty Rosebud 4.Bramblefinch 5.Turtle Dove - Completed 7/6/13
8 Learn how to decorate a cake
9 Pass my theory driving test  - Completed 16/4/13
10 Eat ice cream for breakfast - Completed 17/3/12
11Get my provisional drivers license - Completed 19/11/12
12 Go on a romantic picnic
13 Make chocolate chip cupcakes
14 Bake a homemade pie - Completed 27/8/12

15 Improve my handwriting
16 Journal every day for a month
17 Go on a picnic - Completed 27/5/12
18 Create a budget and stick to it! (2k for my first car not a penny more!)
19 Make a list of things that I like about myself
20 Move in with Dan! (house hunting has commenced!)
21 Learn to use my DSLR camera properly
22 Enter a photography competition
23 Complete a 365 day photo challenge
24 Bake someone a cake for no reason
25 Listen to a live jazz band
26 Listen to 10 albums by artists I've not listened to before click here to see what i listened to  Completed 12/7/12
27 design my own cross stitch pattern
28 Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor
29 Learn to knit
30 buy a slow cooker - completed 27/10/11
31 Spend a day at the beach Completed 13/6/12
32 Build a snow woman - Completed 5/2/12
33 Learn to make Viennese biscuits - Completed 27/8/13
34 Replace my old broken TV with a brand new one - Completed 20/9/12
35 Learn to crochet
36 Make fizzy jelly 28/8/2013
37 Don't say anything negative for one day Completed 4/2/12
38 Grow some herbs
39 write a blog - Done your reading it :)
40 See Wicked the musical - Booked for valentines day!
41 get a decent camera bag 25/12/12
42 Make sausage rolls - Completed 16/12/12
43 Watch all of Mike Leigh films
44 Visit to Paris - Completed 22/4/13
45 have a stress free Christmas!  completed.. although new year was emotional!
46 bake cheese sables Completed 26/2/12
47 Go a week without buying anything - Completed 26/2/12
48 Learn to drive in progress! i passed!!!! 9/1/14
49 Send in a photograph to a contest
50 Have a zombie movie marathon
51 Spend a romantic night in a hotel   Completed
52 Find the perfect fitting pair of jeans - Completed 22/12/11
53 Go to a concert - Completed 11/10/12
54 Watch 100 movies I haven't seen before - Completed 15/11/12
55 Spend a day exploring and photographing my neighbourhood
56 Eat at an Indian restaurant
57 Write a list of 101 things I've already achieved
58 Take a photo of a rainbow - Completed 11/4/12
59 Post 100 pictures to Flickr  Completed 23/11/11
60 Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
61 Make a Year in Pictures album
62 Eat fish and chips at the seaside - Completed 13/6/12
63 Bake bread from scratch
64 Eat 5 things I've never tried before - Elderflower ice cream - Chicken Palak - Bacon Grill -Rye Bread - Banoffee Pie - Completed 22/07/12
65 Try a new recipe every month
66 Make Chocolate Chip Cookies
67 Make my own cookbook
68 Make breakfast in bed for someone
69 Tour a vineyard
70 Try a new restaurant - Completed 24/4/12
71 Make red velvet cupcakes
72 Pass my practical driving test completed 9/1/14
73 Go on the London Eye - Completed 19/11/11
74Go to a fireworks display - Completed 04/11/11
75 Save £5 for every task I complete
76 play elder scrolls V: skyrim - Completed 22/11/11
77 Complete a cross stitch project - Completed 20/07/12
78 Visit York again
79 spend Christmas with my family - Completed 25/12/11
80 buy some plastic canvas - Completed 27/10/11
81 learn to make toad in the hole - Completed 20/3/12
82 Identify 100 things that make me happy
83 Go camping
84 Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet
85 get a massage - Completed 15/6/12
86 Go to 5 different museums 1) Norwich Castle 2) Bygones Museum 3) Musee' D'Orsay 4) Musee Louvre 5) musee' l'orangie
87 Go to the zoo - Completed 14/6/12
88 try rib-eye steak Completed 23/11/11
89 make a cauliflower cheese topped cottage pie completed 25/8/13
90 try roast pork -Completed 1/1/12
91 Try Quinoa - Completed 15/6/13
92 Buy a slow cooker recipe book
93 Blog every day for a week
94 Make pasta from scratch
95 Make whoopie pies
96 Take a decent picture of a bird in flight - Completed
97 Learn how to give a massage - Completed 3/6/12
98 Go on a bicycle ride
99 See the Eiffel tower  completed 24/4/13
100 Buy another lens - Completed 9/6/12
101 Buy some knitting needles and some yarn


 Movies

Here's a list of the movies Ive seen so far for
54.Watch 100 movies I haven't seen before

1  Attack The Block  
2  Buried
3  Somewhere
4 The Roommate
5 Gnomeo and Juliet
6 Mixed Nuts
7 The Retreat
8 Naked - Mike Leigh
9 Another Year - Mike Leigh
10 Made In Dagenham
11 London Boulevard
12 Chalet Girl
13 Shrek The Halls
14 Little Fockers
15 Scrooged
16 Lucky Christmas
17 Midnight In Paris
18 Miracle In Manhattan
19 A Christmas Memory
20 The Help
21 Marmaduke
22 Electra Luxx
23 All I Want For Christmas
24 Clue
25 You Again
26 Arthur Christmas
27 Textuality
28 Killers
29 Connie and Carla
30 The Duchess
31 Working Girl
32 Unfaithful
33 Taxi Driver
34 Vicky Christina Barcelona
35 The Woman in Black
36 Casino Royale
37 Carry On Cabby
38 Reality Of  Love
39 Wild Wild West
40 My Dog Tulip
41 Mr Popper's Penguins
42 Romeo And Juliet
43 Into The Wild 
44 Elegy
45 Alfie
46 Bright Star
47 Little Children
48.Crazy Heart
49.The Wrestler
50. The Big Lebowski
51. Dark Shadows
52. 8 mile
53. Rise Of  The Footsoldiers
54. Hangover 2
55. Shawshank Redemption
56. Real Steel
57. Dark Knight
58. The Crays
59. The Business
60. Four Rooms
61. Unknown
62. Precious
63. Friends With Benefits
64. How Do You Know
65. Johnny English Reborn
66. We Own The Night
67. Nowhere Boy
68. Bronson
69. The Dark Knight Rises
70. The Jacket
71. Ted
72. Love Honour Obey
73. Malice In Wonderland
74. Aristocats
75. Honeymoon In Vegas
76. Failure to Launch
77. Fargo
78. Trust The Man
79. Lymelife
80. Hell Ride
81. The Losers
82. Meantime (Mike Leigh)
83. Two For The Money
84. The Mechanic
85. Taken In Broad Daylight
86. Requiem For A Dream
87. Eternal Sunshine In A Spotless Mind
88. The Man Who Wasn't There
89. Happiness
90. Taken 2
91. The Maid
92. Sucker Punch
93. You Instead
94. Melancholy
95. The 4th Floor
96. Meantime (Mike Leigh)
97. The Scouting Book For Boys
98  Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
99  Everyday
100 Perfect Sense

101 Things I Have Done
1. Learned how to make a roux
2  Learned to cross stitch
3  Learned how to make proper gravy
4  Learned how to make roasted garlic chicken
5  Learned how to make a casserole
6  Organised my massive DVD collection of over 900 DVDs
7  Brought myself a digital camera
8  Taken some macro photographs mostly insects!
9  Brought a printer to print off my photographs
10 Taken a lesson in archery
11 Learned to make bechamel sauce
12 Moved back to my hometown
13 Gone on a blind date
14 Fallen in love!!
15 Gotten over my ex pahaha
16. Learned how to make boilies
17. Eaten 2 mr whippys and 4 flakes in between popping into morrisons lol
18 Experienced a multiple orgasm
19. Attended a Turin Brakes concert
20. Seen Limehouse Lizzy perform
21 Been to Paris
22. Learned to drive
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