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Explore some projects on Instructables that you might choose to try this year. Topics include computers, cooking, sewing, woodworking, and other crafts. See also the Signup Post: Arts and Crafts Challenges in 2025.
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Among the popular materials for journaling are embellishments like stickers and tape. Here are some options to explore.

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Having offered journals and planners to buy or to print at home, it seems useful to cover related supplies. This post covers pens, markers, pencils, inks, and a few extras. Understand that the physical experience of writing is a big appeal with recordkeeping on paper, so pay attention to the handfeel of what you use. Also, many people in this activity are highly visual, with an interest in color-coding and/or using a set of symbols to store information. For this reason, they often want multiple colors. Another reason for variety is when you do different things in your journal -- writing, drawing, filling in areas of color, etc. A good handwriting pen may not excel at coloring in spaces and vice versa, so you might need different ones for each task.

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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 [community profile] 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 [community profile] 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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Chore Charts

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Chore Charts
You can use chore charts to organize housework, yardwork, and so on. Anything that's basically a bunch of little subtasks can be set up this way. These work for one person to track a string of things, or for a group of people to track who is responsible for what and which things have already been done. There are styles for all ages and many contexts. If you want to connect a reward system, consider having a board or basket with lots of perks to claim, and then getting first pick of those per day / week / whatever becomes an incentive to complete chores promptly. All this stuff can help with goals related to completing various types of chores consistently or at certain times, or with goals related to a peaceful family.

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