New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

The old sunshine_challenge is defunct, but other folks are reviving it this summer with the sunshine_revival. See the schedule and link below for more information. Spread the word!

Are you looking for a month-long July goal for blogging, writing, art, or other creative expressions?  This event works great for that kind of goal.



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Today is the last day to nominate projects and patrons for the 2025 Rose and Bay Awards. If you have not yet nominated or boosted the signal, please do so now. It would be especially helpful for folks you know via places like Kickstarter or Patreon, as I'm not on those sites.  If you have goals like "participate in more Dreamwidth activities," "read more," or "support crowdfunding" then this is a good opportunity for those things.

These are the handlers for the 2025 award season:

Art: fuzzyred Nominate art! Vote for art! (3 nominations)
Fiction: curiosity Nominate fiction! Vote for fiction! (4 nominations)
Poetry: fuzzyred Nominate poetry! Vote for poetry! (4 nominations)
Webcomic: ysabetwordsmith Nominate webcomics! Vote for webcomics! (2 nominations)
Other Project: ysabetwordsmith Nominate other projects! Vote for other projects! (3 nominations)
Patron: curiosity Nominate patrons! Vote for patrons! (3 nominations)

I found some editorial cartoons for the New Year.

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There are all kinds of craft challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different arts and crafts including but not limited to crochet, drawing, knitting, painting, quilting, sewing, and woodworking. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for Art and Crafts. Note that get_knitted makes regular checkin posts for your craft projects.

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Arts and Crafts challenge in goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Arts and Crafts Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Art, Crafts, Crochet, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to crochet the crew of the Enterprise, sew a complete capsule wardrobe inspired by hobbits, or carve a replica of Hogwarts, go for it. Either writing about or posting pictures of your progress will count. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g. stashbusting, crochet, and Fannish 50.

Do you know of any other arts and crafts challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.

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These materials show examples of the kinds of things you can draw yourself for your own habit tracker, which you may keep in a bullet journal or separately. Most are designed for dot grid pages, others for blank pages. Some are elaborate, for the crafty; others are minimalist, for the straightforward. There are also lists of things that people like to track. See also Habit Tracker Printables.

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