Quick stats as we wrap up.
For thing-a-day.com, 586 people registered before February 1st at midnight.

From these initial participants, 51% actually started and created well over 4500 things. The rest of the stats concern only these people.

Out of these 51% who posted once or more, more than half posted at least half the time. So the average number of posts per participant is around 15.

And finally, as of this morning (12 hours or so before the final deadline), 56 of you were lining up for having posted all 28 things.

Remember than we don’t send a single reminder email and don’t guilt anyone into doing their thing-a-day. So this is all you, all alone, with your enthusiasm and this blog. Congratulations to all of you and thanks for having found your way to this project once again, reminding us we really need to keep this alive.

So for 2010, we’re in gear for a proper revamp of our web platform so we can welcome you all again, with more features, a better, bigger site, and, most importantly, much less of the technical troubles of the past 2 weeks.
Thank you all for your patience with that.

The site will remain open after tonight so don’t worry about losing your work (although should have backups anyways).

Again, thanks for your work, your imagination, your comments and your participation. I hope that you’ll be able to carry a little something from thing-a-day into the rest of your year.

My final post to Thing-a-day 2009.
Many thanks to the folks behind the scenes for conceiving of this and keeping it up year after year.  It’s a lot of fun and even productive!  Until 2010…..

More than alittle late, I know.  Still, I wanted to finish up my month, even if it’s in March.
I began this last in LA.  I was there for the CAA Conference.

(I skipped the 27th. I wish I hadn’t but I did. It was a busy day; I suppose made a lot of things, but none of them for this.)

When Cleo came home from the hospital, I drew her, but she did not keep very still. This is on a large sheet of newsprint.

(Posting out of order. I got very disorganized, but I kept making my things!!)

Cleo the cat nibbled on these and had to spend two days in the hospital and it was basically hellish and horrible and I never would have kept them around or drawn them had I known how dangerous lilies are to cats. (She is OK now.)

(Posting out of order. I got very disorganized, but I kept making my things!!)

It was my birthday. All I made was a bunch of sangria and guacamole and gettin’ old. Thanks to Marie L. for this photo.

(Posting out of order. I got very disorganized, but I kept making my things!!)

Posting out of order. I got very disorganized, but I kept making my things!!

For my last day I completed month 2’s page for my son’s first year scrapbook.
Phew! What a journey, now its time to clean my severely neglected house!

It’s been great to see what everyone was up to in February- I had fun!
Day 27 was a very quick polar fleece scarf. I mean 5 minutes total thanks to rotary cutters.
Day 28 was finally knitting a hat from my very first hand spun yarn. It’s so warm

I attempted to post day 27 on  Friday but experienced some technical difficulties. So I posted to my blog.

http://redbridgestudio.blogspot.com/

For my final thing, I made a rock & roll benefit concert for my daughter’s preschool. This year, I started a concert series designed for families and young children, and Saturday’s show was a great success — we had over 100 people of all ages rocking in a historic church.

You can see a clip here.

Thanks for a great thing-a-day. This was a great inspiration and has changed the way I’ve been looking at all sorts of things!

Can’t wait for next year!

it has been awesome. til next year lovelies.

just sort of made up the recipe out of coconut milk, vanilla pudding mix, unflavored vegan gel dessert and coconut (crust was store bought). it was tasty, but still too soft and pudding-like.

just a little drawing with oil pastels and ink.

By all, have a great year!

Today I made two knitted ornaments from Handknit Holidays.

No pictures of this one, I guess…

Time spent: about 30 minutes

I just realized that my post from 2/17 did not successfully post. Not so surprised as it was an insane day and during the black out. I had posted to my blog (promise), and I do remember trying to post when TAD was back up, but perhaps didn’t hit publish. I am bummed, though, because I was really proud of these.

…

Well, I did it! I had some technical problems, but I think all the Things are up now… However, my “to-do” list is still HUGE, and a lot of it can’t wait until 2010, so I may need to do this again in April!

’cause it apparently didn’t post earlier…

This is not the nicest photograph but today I made Chocolate - Ginger Brownies. The recipe is here, on the Martha Stewart website. When I saw the dark, rich, chewy looking brownies in the photograph in the site, I knew I needed to make these. Here is the photo that convinced me…

They are simple to make and worth it!

I have had a great time this month! I worked on several projects that I have been meaning to work on for a long time. See you all next year! In the meantime, you can check out my blog, and let me know about yours…

Here is something I’d been planning a while for my etsy shop, but hadn’t gotten around to before today. I put it up for sale as soon as I finished! I love lab coats as aprons with their full coverage, and food science is the most delicious science of all. So I hand embroidered my personal kitchen logo, “Cooking Is Chemistry.” I’m trying to decide about fonts or additional graphics (flask? molecule diagram?) for future versions. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

I’ve had an amazing time with Thing-A-Day this year, although I did have a few neurotic moments around 11:30pm. A major part of it being so worthwhile was the great TAD community and all of your kind comments. Thank you, and I look forward to doing this again next year.

-Ikyoto

You can find me on The {NewNew} Blog or Wardrobe Refashion Challenge.

I am a bit sad to realize the utter lack of reflection this year for me about what I am conceiving, making, planning. In past years, despite being busy, I wasn’t quite this busy so I had the time and more importantly, the head space, to think and write and reflect. I am tickled I managed to make something everyday, in spite of being so crazy at work. A definite success, I am just became aware about a week and half ago that I had managed to write so little – and writing is the mind thinking…

So. Today, tomorrow, this week, this year. Today, I quick like a bunny made an Polaroid transfer for some friends of us at about 8 years old. Not going to show it now because she just may be reading this. I will post to my blog in the next few days. I also did a couple of quick other new ones - the rocks from a beach in Maine turned out great but the cranberry bog tore a bit.

The the other cranberry  print was exposed on one side which bumped me out but it was time to be done. If any of you other Polaroid transfer folks know why this happens to just one side of the film, let me know. It must be something with how I am loading the film but I am confounded. Keeps happening to a couple prints every few rolls..

I am happy that I found the time to make some prints today. I am getting more and more comfortable with the process and beginning to memorize some best ways to do things because I have made so many this month. I am thrilled about about this as my DayLab machine – adored and ignored – was just sitting there, sad. 

Tomorrow and this week, while on vacation, I will have the time and the head space to write and reflect on TAD 2009. I have my notes, sketchbook and ideas – it will likely come out in a torrent. I also plan on taking lots of photos to make Polaroid transfers from and some other paper things I found a way to pack. I will try to update my blog as much as I can but after the print mentioned above, I am making no promises. 

Thoughts for now: the website layout colors are down to the red & turquoise and royal blue & turquoise. I think I may be able to just place the image on my existing website’s layout and I’ll be in good shape. I tried to keep similar proportions – I hate that part of building a website a lot.  

This year, I’d like to keep up with my Polaroid transfers, make some more photo note cards, play with the binding of the flower book, and explore into some opportunities to show my work. The list goes on and on, but these I most want to reinforce.

I also lament not having enough time to peruse all of your work more. I get so many ideas and everyone is so talented. It’s been another good TAD. I will be over here… and will debut a new website design at lightspaces.net soon… Til next year, y’all… 

the gown was old, the embroidery new

Fun game. Next time hopefully I won’t have jury duty for the whole month. See everyone next year.

I couldn’t finish the whole of Thing 28 by midnight, and it’s a gift, so the main part I have finished is not ready for publication, but this secondary part is, and it seemed like a fitting end to Thing-a-day. This is a bean-bag toy’s innards - a muslin peritoneum filled with flaxseed and with a little something inside that can easily be felt when the toy is assembled. A fitting finish for this month!

Thing a day is over, and while it’s been fun, I see no reason not to celebrate. To that end, these came in the mail today:

Perfect!

See you next year.

(maybe)

I wanted to thank all the participants and blog creators for this creative thing a day. May the divine creative spirit in all of us continue to nurture ourselves and the world we live in. In godspeed-