40 things to do before I'm 40

1. bake sourdough bread. then give starter culture and recipes to someone else.
2. plant sunflowers with Elly
3. go see an opera
4. go on a proper holiday
5. finish piecing blocks for my “old t-shirts” quilt
6. learn new fingerpicking techniques for guitar
7. run city-bay fun run faster than I did last time
8. buy an overlocker and learn to use it
9. make a meaningful video and post it on youtube
10. learn to cook on bbq
11. paint the living room
12. record some of the songs I’ve written
13. do kitchen science experiments with Elly
14. get a tattoo
15. do a wine tasting trip with Dave where neither of us has to drive
16. get a dog, or get chickens. probably not both.
17. help Elly make or decorate a kite, then fly it
18. try out playing a banjo
19. make or renovate a piece of furniture
20. make cheese
21. finish knitting 10 things from my ravelry queue (not all hats)
22. donate blood regularly
23. write my will
24. watch a TED talk every week
25. replant my veggie patch. install a second one.
26. make a pinata
27. rewatch all my favourite movies
28. stay a whole weekend in a nice hotel with no plans
29. make Martha a book about inspiring women I have met or read about
30. bake an apple pie from scratch and make vanilla icecream to go with it
31. do a WEA course on something just for the fun of it
32. watch an eclipse or other astronomical event
33. organise all my craft stuff and my work space
34. stop buying cards and make my own
35. de-grass, build shade shelter/bird netting, and plant fruit trees in the mini-orchard area.
36. design and make some fun clothes for Martha and Elliot
37. use my washing line more and my clothes dryer less
38. sew skirts from all the pretty cotton I’ve been collecting
39. go to gold class cinema with Dave
40. make a gingerbread house

Some of these I have done before. Some will take longer than others. Some I'm unsure of - number 14 I'm looking at you. Clearly there's similarities throughout; I guess 2012 is going to be the year of making stuff.