A Blogging Year in Review

I started this blog in July of 2005 but this year is when I've actually gotten very interested in it and posted regularly. The blog has a total of 210 entries and this year I wrote 128 of them and received 132 comments. The comments are the best part of writing a blog. Another good thing about writing a blog is that you can go back and know what you were thinking or doing at any point in time. So now that we are starting a new year and every TV show and news channel is doing a recap of 2007, I decided to do the same. And just like those recap shows where they rehash old material, follow the links to my old posts if you care enough. I am always hard on myself for not getting anything done with my life or not making enough art, but after re-reading all my blog posts this year I feel better. So what did I do in 2007?

• I redesigned my website aynex.com



• I was attacked by a dog.



• I made 16 quilts and 1 sculpture. Sold 10.



• I had the best birthday party ever that people still talk about.



• I made a silent film that got me started making videos.



• One of my quilts won a blue ribbon.



• iListPaducah started with me in the iLove It! section and later iDate which by the way won 3rd place in the Best of 2007 awards.



• Western Baptist Hospital commissioned me to make 8 quilts for the new Heart Center.



• I organized the Quilt Walk for the third time which is a national juried quilt exhibit.



• I started Down in Lowertown, a Lowertown Video Blog and made 25 videos.



• My silent film was in the River's Edge Film Festival.
  

• I was the T-Shirt Diva at the Lowertown Art & Music Festival.



• I got Kandisnky, the blogging cat



• I took online classes on Photoshop and Flash



• I was suspected to be the Rubber Duckie Bandit.



• I took a quilting class with Katie Pasquini Masopoust and made this quilt.
  



• I started working part-time at the Lowertown Information Center.



• I visited my family in Maryland.



• I tried Altered Clothing, Screenprinting and Digital Collage.



• I tried to toilet train my cat.



• I was involved in an almost-drug bust



• I started and ended "the online dating thing".



• I was interviewed for the Boston Globe.



• My hard drive died.



• I went to 3 Thanksgiving and 3 Christmas dinners.



• I made a new friend.



• I planned a funeral and the hearse was believed to be stolen.



• I interviewed William Sledd.

Here is a list of my most popular posts according to the comments I received:

6. Yesterday Methadventures

5. The case of the Stolen Hearse

4. Kandinsky Sunday - Reporting on Mystery Man

3. Adventures in Online Dating

2. Do I get a thumbs up after this?

1. The End

In my first post of 2007 I posted a new year's wish someone had sent me. It said:

May your 2007 be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in 2007, you surprise yourself.

Thanks to whomever sent me that wish. I did all that except for the book part. The year isn't over yet...