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The 100 Day Project - going back, going forward





As #The100Day project enters its third week, it's time to do a little re-assessing.... the coordinators of the project keep in touch throughout and we are given prompts along the way to encourage us all to keep going. Today's newsletter asked us to ask ourselves these questions ... and my answers are in red.
  • What’s getting you energized lately?  Finishing & posting by 6pm every day, 
  • What are you learning?  To let go and not overthink the process. 
  • What do you do when you don’t feel like doing your project? Just do it. 
  • How are you measuring progress? Blogging 
  • What’s working, and what’s not? Setting a time limit- and keep to it! 
And here are my latest two #100pinpoems 

15/#100pinpoems 
 Day 15 was easy . When I woke up, there was a discussion on ABC radio about tea on British National Tea Day....   and the usual questions... 
"Debating again
Pot or bag, milk first or last? 
National Tea Day." 
Materials: fabric , tea bags, threads, safety pin. 
Techniques: paper fusion, collage, stitching. 

Today (Day 16) , it was a beautiful warm Autumn day, and the sky was a clear blue and then all of a sudden while I was walking a  large clattering of cockatoos flew overhead filling the sky 
"White flares in the sky ,  
Screeching invades the stillness. 
Crested cockatoos."
As we are reflecting and re-assessing today, I thought you might like to revisit Days 15 and 16 of my project last year for #The100DayProject. 


 


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