My Goals For 2025 Week 32 of 52

Online Things

I put together another rug hooking tutorial. This time for my Party at Jack’s rug and I posted it to my youtube channel last week. I can’t believe I have posted 19 videos so far! I don’t know which ones I like better, the rug hooking ones are the travel videos. 

I think I’ll keep doing them though, it’s been fun. 

I also finished hooking my giant whale rug {#3} yesterday. Now I just need to stitch it together, take pictures, draw a few patterns, make a few kits and put the video of how I made it together. 🙂 

Online Goals for 2025

• Reach 20,000 sales in Etsy shop MavisButterfield {I’m currently at 19,388}
• In Stock and Ready to Ship by March 31st {DONE!}
• Create 4 new patterns/kits  {3 completed so far; Great Black Whale Rug  and Pod of Black Whales and Tall Sunflower 
• Take all new pictures + videos for Etsy shop {in progress}
• Get as much as humanly possible done online January – March of this year. 
• Stop picking up my phone so much
• Spend less than 3 hours a day online 
• Tidy up the back end of the blog 

House Things

Hey! Good news. The tile guy showed up. The shower tile is on the wall and now he just needs to add the shelves and grout. Then he can start work on the floor tile. 

Hooray for progress!

House Goals

• Paint The Inside Of The House {including closets!} 
• Paint The Interior Window Trim 
• Remodel Bathroom #1 {scheduled!}
• Freshen up Bathroom #2 {Just need to install the facet and hang something on the wall}
• Put Stuff On The Walls {working on it}
• Work on “new” Kitchen Game Plan

Garden Things

This past week we harvested green beans, zucchini and tomatoes. 🙂 The cherry tomatoes, the cherokee tomatoes and San Marzanos are finally starting to turn red.

I better in another 2 weeks we’ll be swimming in them.

Here’s what we’ve harvested so far:

• Green Beans 1 pound 7 ounces
• Radishes 8.4 ounces
• Rosemary 1 ounce
• Sugar Snap Peas 1 pound 2.3 ounces
• Strawberries 5 ounces {the Chippy’s keep eating them!}
• Tomatoes 14.2 ounces
• Zucchini 7 ounces

Garden Goals

• Grow 365 pounds of food 
• Install a side yard {flower} garden {DONE!}
• Make a Potting Bench {decided I didn’t need one}
• Make FIND a Garden Cart to sell flowers/veggies out front {DONE}

Kitchen Things

It was another week of big salads in the kitchen. No need to turn on the stove except for cookies. 🙂 I don’t even know where the CrockPot is and I don’t miss not having a microwave.

Life is good when all you need to do is open a salad kit, chop a few vegetables and sit down and eat.

Why didn’t I think of this sooner?

Kitchen Goals

• Try 12 new recipes {3 down, 9 to go}
• Fill the canning cupboard 

New Recipes I’ve Shared This Year

• Double Chocolate Rye Cookies
• Velveeta Zesty Chili Dip
• Haddock and Corn Chowder
• The Best Way To Freeze Avocados
• Freezing Refried Beans

Travel Things

I met a goat!!! More about that tomorrow. 🙂 

• Explore more of the great state of Maine
• Go on a painting holiday {BOOKED!}
• Québec City {Accommodations and 1 tour booked!}
• Travel Overseas {Spent over a week in the Cotswolds with the HH}
• Send the HH on a vacation {He went to NYC!}
• Hiking in Zion National Park {This wasn’t planned – but how could I say no?}

Marriage Things

We went for a walk along the beach {looking for clamshells} and came home with a free beach chair, a cutting board and some disposable plates.

I forgot how much fun going for walks on trash day is. I need to do it again while the tourists and summer people are here. It’s a gold mine out there I tell you, a GOLD MINE.

Marriage Goals

• Keep my husband busy 
• Date days
• Walk more 

How about YOU? Do YOU have any goals you’ve been working towards lately? How are they coming along? And what’s next on your to-do list? 

~Mavis