Ahhhh! The List…it’s sounds big and important I know….but really it is here to remind me to do the stuff I love and try new things. It is by no means a static list (and right now it is a brief – off the top of my head kinda list) …things will be added and crossed out. At least this list will be tidy…you know usually a typical ‘to do list’ is messy, things crossed out and added. But whether scribbled on scrap paper or compiled neatly on my blog, lists definitely work! Viva la LIST!!
- Move to another city.
- Visit Tokyo
- Visit New York
- Visit Paris
- Eat some macarons at Ladurée
- Visit Berlin
- Master my new camera.
- Learn French (in progress)
- Read Le Petit Prince in French
- Visit Rheinfelden (my mum’s birthplace)
- Travel OS solo
- Get a second tattoo in the first city I visit (Paris, Tokyo, NY, Berlin)
- Learn to Knit
- Make a pair of shoes
- Re-open a clothing/homewares store
- Make croissants from scratch
- Make a beinenstich cake from scratch
- Make a stopstart animation including the soundtrack
- Buy V-Drums
- Learn to play the drums
- Form a band
- Start a new label
- Kill an animal (ok yes this sounds totally weird, but I believe if you are going to eat meat you should be prepared to kill an animal at least once, and cook and eat it of course)
- Dress as Tank girl
- Make a catwoman outfit and wear it well
- Read Brave New World and a possible growing list of all the literature classics I have not read
- Make a huge batch of jam
- Make an impact! sif I haven’t
- Visit Sweet Melissa Patisserrie in NY
- Learn about Madeleine Vionnet Queen of the bias cut.
- Collaborate with awesome creatives with success! Part of Spencer Tunick Sydney Opera House installation
- Get my drivers license back.
- Read Perfume
- Aim to have an exhibition in 2010.
- Visit Carcasonne and Perpignan (finish reading about them and The Albigensian Crusade first…nearly there
) - Get lost in the maze at Cordes-sur-Ciel.
- Learn to scratch (thanks Shaughn for the battle record, the journey begins)
- Go see a roller derby match
- Join a roller derby team
- Sign up for burlesque dancing lessons
- Do some french classes at The French Centre or Alliance Française
- Get a bike
- Attempt to make macarons
- Add stuff to this list, just for the soul purpose of crossing it out
- Make a time – lapse photography movie
- Drink coffee without sugar from now on. (So not ready for this, but I have stopped drinking coffee in the morning)
- Read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and see if it makes me revert back to veganism
- Stop drinking alcohol for 1 month, with the intention of completely giving it up if I feel amazing by the end of it.
- Make sure this does not become some kind of lame ass BUCKET LIST!
- Learn to graff
- Conjure up a 365 photo project here it is
- Become proficient at Illustrator





Designer, Melissa King, is based in Sydney, Australia. She designs, paints, sews, crafts, djs, clicks, pixelates, builds, cuts, collects, reuses, hoards, creates, rips, destroys, draws, samples, hangs, styles, decorates, remixes, folds, moulds, bakes, cooks, recycles and has probably used too many commas.