101 in 1001 - 520 DAYS IN

If you don't remember my original post on 101 Things in 1001 Days you can see it here. I was so inspired by Mckenzie Horan's List of Design Darling, I wanted to join in and make a list of my own too. I am currently 520 days in or about a year and half. I wanted to revisit my list, see how I am doing, and give myself a little motivation to get back on my goals. Right now I have ticked 18 items off my list. 

1. Come up with 101 things - May 19, 2016

2. Inspire friends to make a list of their own - June 2016

3. Buy a house - October 2016

4. Pay off all debt

5. Photograph my home and the decorating process for the blog

6. Have my home featured on a blog or online magazine

7. Reach 50-70,000 views on WSLG 

8. Hit 5000 on instagram

9. Invest in calling cards for Henry and I * Preferably before the next wedding we attend

10. Evolve my wardrobe into all classic, southern, timeless style

11. Throw a housewarming party

12. Throw my first dinner party

13. Use my wedding china

14. Work-out 3-4 times a week for at least 3 months straight

15. Take a trip to the mountains with Henry

16. Go to Bald Head Island

17. Beach with my girlfriends two times -1/2 - Memorial Day Weekend May 2016

18. Back-up my computer

19. Organize my computer photos

20. Attend a Blog Conference

21. Make an address book for family and friends - June 2017

22. Make a Christmas card address list

23. Start my Christmas book with cards from every year

24. Take a yoga class

25. Buy and frame a piece of original art

26. Visit my brother and Chelsea in Nashville

27. Find and frame the perfect state map for our travel goals

28. Make 10 recipes off Pinterest

29. Send my mom a gift out of the blue

30. Plant an herb garden 

31. Find the perfect little black dress

32. Get a facial

33. Get a massage

34. Buy a bicycle

35. Read twenty new books - The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews, Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young, Anderson Cooper: Dispatches from the Edge, Summer Rental - MK Andrew, The Dry - Jane Harper, Girlboss - Sophia Amorusa, The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware, The Singles Game - Lauren Weisberger, Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty, In A Dark Dark Wood - Ruth Ware, The Glittering Court - Richelle Mead, Nantucket Sisters - Nancy Thayer, Heres to Us - Elin Hildebrand, All Is Not Forgotten - Wendy Walker, The Perfume Collector - Kathleen Tessaro, All The Missing Girls - Megan Miranda, Since She Went Away - David Bell, The Girl Before - JP Delaney, The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern, We Were Liars - E. Lockhart  - 22 as of October 20, 2017 

36. Read all Jane Austen

37. Go camping

38. Start buying furniture - November 2016

39. Refinish headboard - November 2016

40. See a double feature

41. Go two months without shopping

42. See a concert

43. Learn how to tie a tie

44. Read for 30 minutes every night for a month - July 2017 

45. Redesign my blog

46. Mail a care package to my sibling

47. Make Henry breakfast in bed

48. Go to Mass every Sunday for three months

49. Visit the Mardi Gras Museum

50. Do a blog guide to Mobile

51. Try 1o new restaurants

52. Visit Mosleys in NYC  - Mosleys came to Mobile October 2017 

53. Play mini golf

54. Go to a baseball game

55. Find the perfect bar cart - August 2017 

56. Read 5 biographies

57. Blog every day for a month 

58. Get a manicure/pedicure

59. Go 1 month without eating out

60. Get back into tennis

61. Be at my ideal weight

62. Have a staycation - The Grand Hotel July 2017 

63. Open a retirement account 401K - July 2017 

64. Buy a fiddleleaf fig tree

65. Leave a 100% tip for great service

66. Get 5 just because gifts

67. Go to Midnight Mass at Christmas

68. Go kayaking with Henry

69. Play 18 holes with Henry

70. Bake a puppy cake for Charlie's 6th Birthday

71. See a movie at The Saenger

72. Stay at a Bed and Breakfast

73. Have a party for Henry's Birthday

74. :) 

75. Grow Instagram to 10,000

76. Visit an aquarium

77. Get up at 6 am for a month

78. Learn how to make the perfect cocktail

79. Make 3 videos  on my YouTube channel

80. Buy a bookshelf - September 2017 

81. Celebrate something special with a nice bottle of champagne

82. One room challenge to complete a room in house and photograph

83. Organize attractive/functional filing cabinet

84. Start a collection  - Ginger Jars September 2017 

85. Research and learn more about the presidential candidates - September 2016 

86. Send my grandmother a letter - My grandmother passed in October 2016 and I so wish I had done this before she did. :(

87. Buy myself peonies

88. Take a great beach family photo

89. Frame that photo

90. Buy new bedding/towels and monogram them - August/September 2017 

91. Plan a family trip with entire family for future - something we have never done before

92. Watch the sun rise

93. Have my makeup professionally done

94. Buy a lemon tree

95. Stock my bar cart - August 2017 

96. Take Charlie to the beach

97. Give Henry an amazing gift

98. Henry get a new truck - May 2017 

99. Outdoor patio area

1000. For every goal accomplished put $10 in savings 

1001. Make a new list for the next 2.75 years



A few items on my list I would like to check off before 2018 include:

Purchase Calling Cards
Use our Wedding China 
Start my Christmas Book with yearly recap and our cards from every year
Get a Facial
2 Jane Austen Novels 
Blog every day for a month - Tentatively blogging in November/December with Gift Guides, Recipes, etc. 
Visit the Mardi Gras Museum 
Midnight Mass at Christmas 
1 Biography - please send me recommendations 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and let me know if this list inspires you to make your own. Revisiting it has definitely made me want to keep going and it is so much fun to keep up with everything you are doing/accomplishing!