My Goals For 2026 – Week 12 of 52

Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug

All I do these days are eat, sleep, play with wool and keep my plants watered. Yep. That’s pretty much my life these days. 

I haven’t watched a movie in at least two months. I maybe check my phone once a day {if that} and some days I even forget to bake my afternoon cookie. 

It’s that crazy around here. I have to force myself to leave the “island” at least once a week. Staying unplugged is super easy to do when you have a to-do list a mile long. 😉

In The Kitchen

The HH is in charge of cooking for the rest of the month so I can stay focused on getting all my wool projects done. 

Yesterday’s linner was an egg salad sandwich. 

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 finished dyeing all the wool!! I can’t believe it! Now I just have to bundle all of it. 

Besides labeling and bundling wool, I still have about 100 more kits to make. If I stay on track and log about 10 hours a day until the end of the month, I think I’ll finish in time!

It will feel SO GOOD to check this massive project {getting 12 months worth of work done in 4} completed.

Rug Hooking Goals For This Year

• Finish drawing out all my patterns, making kits, dyeing wool by March 31st. {92% done!!!}
• Release 10 new rug hooking patterns/kits.  {3 down 7 to go}
• Hook 27 of the patterns from the “someday I’ll hook these” bin. {4 down 23 to go}

Go New Places – See New Things

I bought a new travel outfit for NYC. What do you think? Brown pants, a red sweater and a belt. 

I can’t even remember the last time I owned a belt. I hope the arms on the sweater are long enough. 😉

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.

Places I’ve Been So Far This Year

• Boston {Birthday getaway}

Walk And Stretch More

We got a few good walks in last week and one day I even snuck in an extra loop around the neighborhood. C’mon warmer weather. I need you if I’m going to get in shape before the half marathon in May!!

Fact: If it was warmer out and I was walking more I’d be able to eat more pastries. 

Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year

• Get into some sort of stretching routine
• Fast walk a 5K, 10K, and Half Marathon {signed up for a half marathon}

Garden

Hey look what I found lurking in one of my chive plants. An invasive ladybug. How do I know it’s the invasive kind? See the “M” on the ladybug’s head? That’s how you know it’s the bad kind. 

I guess it’s time to get out the old vacuum {I knew I was saving it for something!} and do a little housekeeping. Yikes!

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

It was another week of no painting. Not buoys, not walls, not a single brushstroke on my paint by number. Nada. 

The only project on my mind from now until the end of the month is to finish all my wool projects. Once that’s done, I’ll be able to pack everything away and get some serious painting done. 

Yee-Haw. I’m almost there!!

~ Mavis

Painting Goals For This Year

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