A Million Things I Haven’t Done

Aside from just being eternal Hamiltrash, I’ve picked the title of this post to reflect a fairly ambitious goal I have this coming year.

My sister and I have been itching to collab on something for the last few years, but could never quite settle on what. When I pitched this to her, she seemed interested¹, but we are still working out exactly what form the documentation of the project will take. YouTube channel has been tossed around, as has podcast, but a collaborative blog (like a Tumblr, that easily integrates multimedia) is also on the table.

But — hand-waving that whole debate side, the gist of the project is, we each pick a creative practice we’ve never tried, but wanted to, and devote five weeks to researching, practicing, and learning the skill, and document it (means of documentation, as mentioned, TBD).

To that end, I am compiling a list of skills I wish to explore — at five weeks each, we can fit ten new skills into 2025, so here are my Top Ten:

Ten New Creative Endeavors for 2025

1. Decorative Calligraphy
2. Embroidery/Cross-stitch
3. Stamp-making
4. Shrinkydink Graphic Jewelry
5. Wood Carving
6. Mixed Media Assemblage
7. Perler bead art
8. Paper quilling
9. Clothing alteration
10. Book sculpture

Some of these have been on my Want to Try list for literal decades — like, shrink plastic art? Quilling? My sister went through a quilling phase herself in the late 90s/early aughts, and while I was vaguely interested, I had both so little confidence and so little patience with myself that I just never undertook the endeavor. Just handwaved it away as something I “couldn’t” do.

I think I’m finally in the state of mind where I genuinely feel like with time and patience, all things are possible.

I am beyond excited to have such an ambitious plan for 2025 — this will be on top of my own creative endeavors, and I am hoping to be able to use my creative calendar to keep track of and plan each of these learning experiences.

I have even more exciting potential projects in the works that I can’t wait to share with all y’all, but (sadly) as they are collabs, I’ve gotta hold me tongue until I get the all-clear from the other participants.

What creative ambitions do y’all have in the pipeline for 2025?

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¹ “She seemed interested” might be generous — intrigued might be a more fitting descriptor, as in, it sounded interesting and maybe fun, but might also be waaay too much of a time or energy commitment for her, so… should that be the case, I still intend to Do the Things, but I may simply document progress and results right here in this cozy little space instead of setting up elsewhere. Stayed tuned, I guess.