1. Do this challenge first - Buy yourself a notebook. Use this as your journal to document your challenges. Take pictures of completed challenges where possible and add them to it. Use this notebook to collect all the things you need to write down. Use the notebook for all the lists you have to create during challenges. 20 June 2011
4. Listen to classical music while doing the housework (this may be difficult as I have a cleaner).
6. Ask a friend if you can baby-sit for them for no reason at all.
7. Go out of your way to do something kind for a stranger
8. Buy a blank canvas. Create a master piece together with the children. 12 September 2012
9. Create some bubble mixture and give it away as a gift to a child.
10. Buy an utterly frivolous piece of lingerie. 11 November 2011
11. Run a bath turn of all the lights and light one candle. Add bubble bath or oil to the bath. Hop in close your eyes and enjoy the silence – what do you hear and see? 12 November 2011
12. Go to the home of a friend who has just recently been sick, take a homemade casserole or soup and help out in any way needed during this time.
13. Cut flowers, weeds, tree branches whatever is there and arrange them in a vase creatively. 26 June 2011
15. Have a picnic 03rd December 2011
16. Make homemade jam or relish or preserve fruit and give the first one away 04 September 2011
17. Think about a complimentary thing for your waiter/waitress ~ write a little note on the serviette and leave it on your table.
18. Get the children up early one morning and watch the sunrise.
19. Go to a market/fair and look at all the colours, people, stalls etc Look Listen & Smell. 03rd December 2011
22. Teach someone a new craft – help them on their first ‘project’. 02 March 2012
23. Book a great restaurant and take yourself and a friend out for a dessert-only dinner. You must only eat from the dessert menu.
24. Clean out your closet and donate everything to your local charity shop rather than sell it on Trade Me. 03 August 2011
25. Buy someone a bottle of bubble bath and a rubber ducky – this has got to be given to an adult!
26. Fill my car up with petrol and take my car for a warrant (normally Mr B does this for me) 08 September 2011
27. Ring a friend you haven’t seen for a while and take them out to a movie.
28. Find out what a friend’s favourite cake is and make it especially for them for no particular reason at all.
29. Create an occasion to wear your most impractical pair of shoes.
30. Go for a walk in your neighbourhood and take you camera. Take a picture of anything you find with a particular thing on it (e.g. numbers, colour, shape etc). See how many weird shots you can get.
17 July 2011
31. Go for a walk along the beach at night – almost dark. Take your shoes off and walk in the water.
32. Arrange a Soup Swap with friends/neighbours
33. Send a friend a message via snail mail.
34. Spend one day taking pictures of everything you find beautiful.
35. Go to a restaurant with a friend, order only from the dessert menu
36. Write a letter to yourself at seventy from yourself right now. What do you need to tell yourself? 16 September 2011
37. Pick a bunch of lavender and put it in your bathroom.
38. Organise a dessert evening at your home with some of your closet friends.
39. Lay on a blanket with your kids and watch the clouds. 20 November 2011
40. Decrease my fabric stash - by at least half.
41. Take your camera with you when walking to school. Take lots of pictures of the world around you. 22nd September 2011
42. Take a batch of unusual but yummy homemade muffins to a meeting.
43. Have a veggie garden and give away something from it.
47. Be a good neighbour/friend and take over a batch of homemade cookies or a cake. 18 June 2011
48. Buy a hard-working friend a take away coffee and drop it off to them. 28 June 2011
49. Spend an hour in silence.
50. Put a love note in Mr B's lunch box.
51. Pay for someone’s coffee that you do not know. 08th November 2011
52. Buy tickets to a play for you and a friend and post it to them, with a note saying where to meet you. 16 March 2011
53. Look for a funny childhood picture of a friend or family member. Frame it and give it to them for no reason other than to celebrate family.
54. Go on an op-shopping adventure with a friend
55. Make all our presents this year.
56. Light a candle and put on great music
57. Find a project/recipe/idea on-line and do one of your own. 29 June 2011
58. Look for some inspiring cards and frame them. 25 June 2011
59. Read a magazine that you would not normally read
60. Read a newspaper from another country. 02nd November 2011
61. Create an area in your home that is just for your ‘creative space’ – maybe a corner with a chair in it or a whole room! 24 June 2011
62. Write a list of things you would like to do or achieve before you die – ‘Bucket List’.
63. Look through your old recipe books, choose one book and try cooking every recipe in it!
(see my chosen book and the recipes HERE)
64. Send a handwritten note/letter to 3 friends letting them know how much their friendship means to you, include a gift. For no reason other than friendship. - 21 December 2011
65. Get some old magazines and look through them and pull out anything that is attractive to you. Paste them in the book and write down why you like it.
66. Give someone a hug; let them let go first.
67. Find a favourite piece of poetry – frame it
68. Plant spring bulbs.
69. Sew something you have never made before and give it away.
71. Create an eco-friendly home by making all cleaners.
72. Make something for your children. Wrap it up and put it where they sit at breakfast time.
73. Write down 7 separate places in your life that you hope to take your children to see.
74. Read a biography of your favourite glamorous screen star, or the bravest, most badass real life heroine. - Freda Stark / December 2011
75. Create a cottage garden.
76. Write something inspirational or copy something inspirational on lovely paper. Put it in an envelope and put it under someone’s wiper in a car park.
77. Send a surprise I-think-you’re-fabulous handwritten note to someone
78. Choose a photo of you and a friend. Write something on the back and send it to them telling them why you like the picture
79. List every colour you can think of.
80. Write down 100 things you are grateful for in your life.
81. Who is Cat? If someone could describe you, would they say?
Write them down and read them every day this week.
82. Donate to your favourite charity. Every little thing matters. 17 September 2011 $50 Child Cancer - In loving memory of Lance aged 4 years who passed away 12 September 2011
83. Go outside in the rain and get really wet. 18th October 2011
84. Make 20 Christmas cards in October. Separate them into 4 bundles of 5. Give away three bundles.
85. Fly a kite at the park. 02nd January 2012 Western Springs
86. Find a favourite poem or verse and memorize it.
87. Read a book you have always said you would read.
88. Have a family meal by candlelight.
89. Take care of a nagging life admin item (a trip to the post office, filing an insurance claim, making a doctor’s appointment). 14 September 2011
90. Get dressed up and take yourself out on a date. Invest in yourself. 08 July 2011
91. Surprise your children. Keep each of them (one at a time) off school one day and have a fun day with them.
92. Organise a night away with your husband for no other reason than because you can.
93. Bake a cake for someone and go overboard decorating it.
Do this once a month.
94. Learn a fancy way to fold serviettes and do it randomly for dinner one night.
95. Let the kids decide the dinner menu one night, help them to make it, set the table and decorate it with whatever they want.
96. Buy a song off iTunes. Play it loud and sing along. Uncle Kracker - Smile
97. Grow something from seed and give it away.
98. Have a media-free day. September 2011 only used computer when children weren't around
99. Make a scarecrow with the kids for the garden
100. Do this challenge last – go somewhere for a night! Take your journal of the challenges with you and look back through it.