I'm doing 33 things
Kiva
10 months ago
Just signed up to Kiva.org and made my first couple of loans to two women entrepreneurs in the developing world, yawww!
superbecc's Life List
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1. Read 50 books in 2009.
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2. finish my novel
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3. learn to play the guitar
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4. paraglide
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5. Make my own t-shirts
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6. learn photography
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7. get into freelance illustration (for fun OR profit)
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8. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
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9. have a meaningful career
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10. sleep earlier and get up earlier
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11. learn to surf
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12. improve the lot of queer teenagers
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13. learn to dance
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14. learn to paint
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15. have a group of friends I consider 'family'
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16. take up swimming laps
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17. learn how to survive in the wilderness
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18. learn sign language
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19. read everything written by michel foucault
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20. see the northern lights
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21. memorize all the words to "we didn't start the fire"-billy joel
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22. Go WWOOFing
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23. build a straw bale house
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24. drupal
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25. reduce my ecological footprint
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26. go to burning man
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27. be the difference/change that I want to see
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28. Learn to play the bongo drums
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29. Surround myself with beauty
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30. get financially educated enough to confidently act to look after my future
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31. have multiple streams of passive income
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32. teach piano
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33. build a cob house
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Recent entries
My first two loans!
10 months ago
1. Zelea Gulam from Mbarali, Tanzania, for bulk rice for her restaurant “Mama Lishe”. Regular fare includes “rice, ugali (a hot sticky dough, made from maize flour), plantain (a cooked savory banana), all served with beans, vegetables, meat, and a variety of yummy sauces”. Um, yum! Where do I get mine???
2. Martha Sosa and her good buddies, the Martha Sosa Group (group loan), from San Pedro de MacorÃs, Dominican Republic. Martha’s had it rough living in extreme poverty all of her life, and is excited about the prospect of starting her own business fixing up and selling clothes so she can realise her dreams of travelling and getting her own house. Sounds fab – go Martha and buds!
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10 months ago
Oh. my. god. I just realised, after about 10 years of wanting to make my own shirts but thinking it logistically impossible, that after using photo emulsion on a silk screen you can still re-use the screen! I bought a screen years ago and only used it once, having found the process of cutting out letters from litho paper with a Stanley knife to be waaaaaay too annoying. Holy crap, this makes for interesting proceedings! I see in my future self-made tshirts… Many self-made tshirts…! :D
A video of the whole process: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-screen-print-t-shirts
The scungey Instructables way (good for reading the comments at least): http://www.instructables.com/id/Screen-Printing:-Cheap,-Dirty,-and-At-Home/
Coating the screen with photo emulsion fluid: http://www.ehow.com/how_10854_coat-silk-screen.html
Removing the photo emulsion fluid: http://www.ehow.com/how_10852_remove-photo-emulsion.html
