My Goals For 2026 – Week 5 of 52

Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug

I left the house yesterday for the first time in 9 days! I had no idea it had been that long. Holy cats! I guess winter agrees with me. 

I did a great job of staying off the internet. I was tempted to write a post yesterday but kept the laptop closed and listened to an audiobook instead.

Oh, and I got to have breakfast in bed too. 🙂 A pear tart. Ya baby!

In The Kitchen

We stopped by Costco and they had Heinz beans 6 for $7.99. I LOVE those!!! 

I enjoyed my one hundred dollars a month grocery challenge SO MUCH, that I’ll be doing it again this month. 

But with a twist. I’ll tell you all about it on Friday. I will say this though, I am looking forward to using an oven again!

Kitchen Goals For This Year

• Master the pear frangipane tart from Standard Baking Company. 
• Put my Weck jars to use.
• Use two bins of beans.

Rug Hooking

I’ve kept busy drawing patterns, making kits and dyeing wool. 

Originally I was going to try and get all my patterns drawn by the end of the month but it’s been easier to draw patterns and make kits simultaneously so I’m doing that instead. 

I’m still on track to finish everything by the end of March so I’m pretty pumped about that. 

In the evening I’ve been hooking rugs and turning them into pillows. I still have a few more to finish but I’m hoping I’ll be done on Friday so I can get them listed in my Etsy shop.

Rug Hooking Goals For This Year

• Finish drawing out all my patterns by January 31st.
• Finish making all my kits by February 28th.
• Finish dyeing wool by March 31st.
• Release 10 new rug hooking patterns/kits.  {2 down 8 to go}
• Hook 27 of the patterns from the “someday I’ll hook these” bin. {1 down 26 to go}

Go New Places – See New Things

Why would I want to go anywhere!? I love the snow. 🙂 

Things have been super quiet around town lately, which is fine by me. I think everyone is in hibernation mode. I haven’t even seen anyone out walking. 

The HH says he wants to hop on a plane and go somewhere warm. I told him to just turn up the furnace and sit in front of a heat lamp.

Travel Goals For This Year

• Travel someplace {internationally} that I’ve never been before.
• Travel somewhere in Maine {overnight} that I haven’t been before.

Walk And Stretch More

Not only is it too cold to go out walking, but there’s still a ton of ice on the sidewalks. I have zero interest in falling on my keister {with or without traction strips on my shoes}. 

Once the snow melts and it’s safe to go out walking, I’ll go. But for now, I’m hanging out inside. 

Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year

• Get into some sort of stretching routine
• Fast walk a 5K, 10K, and Half Marathon

Garden

My garden seeds and raised garden beds are here and ready to go! We just need the snow to melt and the weather to warm up now. 

I figure by the end of March or early April the HH will be able to put the garden beds together and we can get the garden started. 

Meanwhile I’ve been working on organizing my seeds by their {indoor and outdoor} sowing date. 

The lavender seeds I started a few weeks ago are up and now I’m waiting on the flat of chives I planted to sprout. If all goes well I’ll have entire flat {72 plants!} to work with. We’ll see. 

Garden Goals For This Year

• Rework the driveway and garden areas 
• Go crazy and plant a ridiculous amount of flowers 
• Step out of my comfort zone and plant some flowers I’ve never planted before.

Paint

I didn’t work on my latest paint by number kit last week but I did get the trim painted on one of the future “gallery” walls. 

Once I get everything hung up I’ll paint another section of the stairway and hopefully by the end of the year {maybe even summer} I’ll have the whole inside of the house repainted.

Painting Goals For This Year

• The Van Gogh wall
• The gallery wall down stairs
• The captains wall in the hall
• Trim and walls 

Well, that’s what’s happening here in Maine. What’s new at YOUR place? Anything exciting? 

I hope you have a fantastic day!

~Mavis