August goals made explicit

I am a list maker.  I have a nice big white board in my studio where I list the projects I have in progress and ones I want to do next.  As I come into the final stretch on unpacking and setting up the studio, I decided to make my next month's goals public.  Because external deadlines are easier for me to meet.  So, here's what I want to accomplish in August.

First, of course, finish the unpacking & setup.  This was my goal for July and got delayed due to a nasty summer cold made worse by the last few days of smoke hanging over Bellingham like winter clouds.

Next, in no particular order, finish the Green Eco-chicken.  This is the fourth or fifth chicken I've done and while doing this one, I'm taking notes so I can publish a pattern for it.  It's also the only goal for August that I have a picture to share which is why it's being mentioned early on.

When I was doing research for the first chicken, I realized chickens came in an amazing array of colors but not green.  And since I'm in the PNW, green can also mean Green so I started thinking about what an Eco chicken would look like.  So far, I've picked the fabric for the chicken from sea to mountain (right to left in the photo).  What's left to do?  The stitching on the edges between colors, some stamping or painting added on to most of the stripes to make the sea to mountain more explicit, and creating the background.  I'm of 2 minds about the background:  a single piece of patterned fabric or a background with realistic photos collaged onto fabric to suggest the whole Seattle/Green idea.

My other major project for this month is to do some silkscreening with the new soy wax pastes I bought for myself in January.  Due to the whole packing/moving thing, I haven't had a chance to play with them yet.  I have a large plastic bin of thrift store shirts to upcycle in some way so my goal for this area is to do a dozen shirts this month.  I'm going to use the screens I have already made so that probably means leaves or dragonflies.

Along with making the shirts, I'm going to reactivate my etsy store and update my webpage.  I'm still deciding what goes in which place but I definitely need to redo my webpage to reflect all the sales I did at my moving sale in March and the changes I'm making to what I'm working on.

Longer term, I have my endangered species piece to start.  My goal for August is to do the paper sketch which will include picking a flower for the hummingbirds to hover near and what pose I want them to be in.

And in the personal life area, we are putting a storage shed in the backyard.  My motivation is that moving storage stuff from the garage into the shed will give me room in the studio to do demos and consultations.

I have a tendency to try to do too much when doing my goal setting so I tried this month to rein that in a bit.  We'll see how I did in 4 weeks.