My Life List

This will be fun! (I keep telling myself that! In hopes that I will have fun) I am not one to talk much about my personal life on my blog... sometimes I will expose myself and share but it's hard.  
I read a few life list over the past few weeks, and started a list of my own.  Here is a place to start if you feel like doing one yourself!  She really makes it easy.


If you are interested in sponsoring one of my goals, please contact me at cyng1 at me dot com. (borrowed that from Mighty Girl) thought to myself, "Hey, it doesn't hurt to put it out there!" right!


The Life List of Callie!  
(this is a work in progress and I will be adding as the idea's come up) 
Not in any particular order:

1. Visit Rosslyn Chapel
2. Attend a music festival in the UK
3. Own a house by water, small cottage
4. Create yearly inspirational journal, collections to pass on the my nieces
5. Crochet a bed cover from my left over yarn, {started}
6. Fall completely, unconditionally & helplessly in love
7. and spend the rest of my life with that person
8. Visit Niagara Falls completed 2010
9. Grow an organic vegetable garden that I can live off all summer {started, 2011}
10. Learn to bake cakes and pies really well (as good as my grandmother, Ovaletta)
11. Learn to sew so I can make my own really  cool skirts and dresses
12. Vacation with my parents yearly. Get to know more and more about them
13. Finish my book on the family history
14. Try indoor rock climbing to conquer my fear of heights (actually, falling)
15. Learn to golf {started, 2011.... and working on it}
16. Speak French Fluently (better than my broken high school French)
17. Speak Scots Gaelic
18. Visit Quebec
19. Walk around Boston
20. Be a complete tourist in D.C. & N.Y.
21. Drive the entire East Coast beginning in the South
22. Build a cottage on the land that grandfather was born
23. Lounge on a beach in Bora Bora (stole that from Erin!) and read a trashy novel (I added this part)
24. Cross the Atlantic Ocean from the UK, like my family did when they came to Canada/America (but on a nice cruise liner)
25. Build a wine cellar and fill with my favorite red wines
26. Schedule a girls weekend away annually with my besties!
27. Take each of my nieces to Scotland on their 13th birthday so they will understand where we are from
28. Mentor a high school girl and try to make a difference in her life {Step Up Chicago!}
29. Speak on a panel
30. Eat a huge lobster in Maine
31. Attend the Kentucky Derby and were an awesome hat!
32. Have tea in London
33. Get a massage under a canopy in a place that has a beautiful view
34. Create an online store {started}
35. Sell my paintings
36. Publish my blog in yearly books, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
37. Go to Greece
38. Go on a sister trip with to a destination of her choice:
39. Take my dad to se a baseball game in Boston at Fenway Park
40. Build out my garage to make any man jealous!
41. Install a patio in my backyard and host BBQ gatherings
42. Meet other like minded bloggers from around the world
43. Stand in line and eat freshly baked ginger bread in Graesmer, England
44. Own a pair of Louboutans
45. Visit Amish communities in all the states around where I live, buy a beautiful blanket from each.
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