30 Days of Lists and Coloring Challenges

The prompt for Day 2 of the 30 Days of Lists challenge was “resolutions that never stood a chance.” Resolutions? Really? Does anyone still make resolutions? I made a few goals for 2015. I forget now what they were. None stood a chance. Not one.

The prompt for Day 3 was “my jams.” I had to look that one up. Should I post photos of my pajamas? In the winter, I usually sleep in sweats. Boring! Does that mean all the ways I’ve messed up? All the trouble I am in? Do I even want to publicize that? So I Googled the term. Apparently in the under-40 crowd, “my jams” means “the songs that get me singing along.” Or something like that. So I listed a few of the songs that always get me chair dancing or singing along when they come on the radio.

The prompt for Day 4 was “favorite online communities you are a part of.” Rather self-explanatory.

The prompt for Day 5 was “cures for the winter blues.” The 30 Days of Lists and Coloring challenges sure help.

Collages for Days 2 & 3 were made with PicCollage and Days 4 & 5 were made with Photo Grid. All were made on my phone.

The 30 Day Coloring Challenge has no prompts (that I know of). For Day 2, I colored another page in the coloring book. While I used Crayola crayons for Day 1, I used General’s pencils for Day 2.

Made with PicCollage 

Made with PicCollage 

Made with Photo Grid 

Made with Photo Grid

The colored pencils I used to color on Day 2

Colored with General's colored pencils

30 Day Coloring Challenge

Sometimes I get tired of being a responsible adult. It’s so overrated. That’s why I’m joining The Daily Marker and her 30 Day Coloring Challenge. I may not be able to keep this up for 30 consecutive days, but I plan to participate for 30 days.

It’s a good time for this challenge, because in my part of the world, winter is never going to end. Or at least it feels that way, with 6 weekends in a row with a snowstorm and another storm last night. (But today, the temps are supposed to reach into the 40s!)

My favorite color! I just LOVE the name! 

I just bought a coloring book! I'll use it for some of the challenge days. Some days, it's too much of a challenge to come up with something to color. 

My first contribution to the challenge. I call it...um...Cow with Pitchfork.

30 Days of Lists - March 2015

I sort of failed at 30 Days of Lists in December. Once the excitement of the project wore off, real life set in. December is a crazy busy month. I still have the prompts for December and can pick it back up any time I want.

For now, though, I am concentrating on their new project: 30 Days of Lists in March. Anyone is welcome to join and follow along. When you join, you gain access to a private blog and private Facebook group page.

Today is day one. So far, I have made a cover and my list for Day 1. (Actually, I have made lists through Day 3, but the one cardinal rule of the project is not to post a day’s list before the day’s prompt is released. While the full list is available ahead of time, some people like to be surprised with each list on the day it is meant to be posted. I happen to like to be able to plan ahead, if I have time, or to "wing it" if I don't have a lot of time. It's a good project to work on while I'm streaming comedies on Netflix or Hulu Plus. Currently, I'm watching Bruce Almighty. And while I plan to make my lists daily, I plan to blog them about once or twice a week.

One beautiful thing about this project is it can be done on actual paper or digitally. I'm doing it on my cellphone, using various apps. These were done with Pic-Collage on an Android-operated phone, and this is currently my go-to scrapbooking app.

The cover for my project is not meant to represent any lists to come. It is meant to represent the end of winter and the beginning of spring. And I am so ready for spring, since this is the sixth weekend in a row that we've had a snowstorm. As the cover says, I am so done with this endless winter.

The prompt for Day 1 was "why I make lists." I have always made lists, mainly to-do lists and lists of things I want to remember to say in meetings and during phone calls. I need to make myself scripts of sorts to avoid becoming tongue-tied. This project raises list making to an art form. Some lists are just plain fun.