Inspiration Machine 25

Clockwise from left: yyellowbird, Allison Sommers, verhext, flair to remember

1. Make a plaster cast of your face. Give masks of your face to your friends.

2. Paint a canvas with the list of your New Year's resolutions in bright, beautiful colors, and hang it somewhere you will see it often.

3. Go through your jewelry box, and sort out all the jewelry you have not worn for a year. Give it as gifts to your closest friends.

4. Sing in the shower. Use the soap as a mike. Rock out!

5. Have an indoor picnic: light the candles, lay out a tablecloth on the floor, and fest on all your favorite picnic foods, sans ants.

6. Tell your parents/guardians you appreciate everything they have done for you, and that you think they did a good job.

7. If you could design your own toy, what would it be? What would it look like? What would it be made of? Who would it be for?

8. Become a Big Brother or Big Sister, and help a young child reach their dreams.

9. Invite friends over for a breakfast dinner. Make pancakes, sausage links. Encourage friends to arrive in their pajamas, and have cartoons playing in the background.

10. Try to make the economic crunch fun: compete with a friend on who can spend the least each month. The loser foots the bill for dinner one night.