5 Reasons to Do a Year of Making (+ Free Worksheet!)

I’m still finding my way around Periscope, and one of the things I love most about it is that people can comment as you record, so you can respond to what they say or ask. I just love it. Anyway, as I’ve been experimenting with the platform, I find I’ve been chatting with people more and more about daily making and Year of Making, so I did a scope highlighting five reasons to do a Year of Making. The video of my five reasons is below, as is the link to get the free worksheet I promised in the scope!

Scope Notes

• I mentioned my friend Meighan O’Toole (whose scopes are ace, btw), and this post she linked to from someone doing a Year of Making.
• Bullet Journaling. (I’ve written about my own here, here, and here.)
• Here’s a direct link to the #yearofmaking stream on Instagram.
• My online not-really-a-class: Daily Making Jumpstart. (That’s what you’ll find at the website I mention in the scope: kimwerker.thinkific.com. In a few weeks, I’ll launch my next class on there; sign up for my weekly email to be the first to find out about it!)
• You’ll get the Year of Making ebook if you choose the ebook option when you sign up for the Daily Making Jumpstart, or you can purchase it on its own right here.
• Crafts/art/cooking I’ve done that I had never done before I did my first Year of Making (many of these have become standard fare for me):
  • soap-making
  • other skin-care products like lip balm and lotion
  • mixed-media art stuff
  • watercolour painting
  • stamp-carving
  • related: print-making
  • general cooking (I mean, obviously I’d cooked before, but I’ve become a far more competent cook)
  • challah baking
  • weaving
  • bookbinding (my newest love)
• I’m going to start an Alabama Chanin sew-along at some point, and I’ll be picking up this book to learn and work from.
• The brush-lettering ebook I mentioned.

{The app that let me embed a Periscope video here went kaput! I’ll try to dig up the original and will post it when I find it!}