Welcome to our blog.

This was our original purpose for creating this blog:

We are both baby boomers fast approaching sixty. This blog will chronicle the time leading up to reaching our significant day. Our mutual goal is to complete sixty specific tasks each by our 60th birthdays, and to both celebrate our experiences and our accomplishments.

We are "the fabled tortoise" in this effort. Our blog will begin with a slow start, so we ask for your patience. We are aiming for a strong finish, so we ask for your encouragement. We invite you to join us on our journey, laugh and cry with us, and celebrate with us. We encourage you to leave us your comments and feedback. Most of all, we hope you become inspired to perhaps create and complete your very own "___ by ___ list."

We borrowed this idea from a blog one of our nieces told us about: http://makingitlovely.com . The author is working on her list of "30 Before Thirty."

As we progressed we continued to reflect on the process and the progress:

We would like to make a point of clarification. Because we did not begin our endeavor until April that left us both with less than a year to complete all 60 tasks on each of our lists. Actually, JR has about four months and CEA has about seven months. For that reason we agreed that we would both use CEA's birthday so that we both have the same amount of time to complete our tasks.

Now we are both 60 and moving forward. We have decided to continue the blog, setting goals and celebrating our accomplishments, sharing our experiences and voicing our thoughts, and enjoying life by making the most of every day with which we are blessed.

Monday, July 19, 2010

JR’s List Item #8 – (making progress) Expand the BCLT collection by 50 posters.

I have added about twenty or so new posters so far.  Back in February I had created a new category called -TUDE posters.  The idea is to aid teachers in building a positive attitudes in the students about the subject they are teaching.  The posters were actually created originally with math teachers in mind, but I expanded the -TUDE posters that worked into versions for reading, science, and history.  I have also decided that there needs to be a set for writing, so I will work on those today.

I have listed about 50+ posters on ebay in hopes that teachers will purchase some for their classrooms for this coming school year.  The most viewed poster so far has been a new design, "No Negativity", which I find quite fascinating.

It has taken me awhile to get motivated to actually sit down to create any new designs.  I think having an order from the emails I sent out and selling a few posters through ebay has been encouraging, so I'm more motivated to increase the offerings.  Of course, it is on my 60 by 60 list to complete.  I guess I better get busy!
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