My Goals For 2026 – Week 16 of 52

Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug

It was another fantastic week for not dilly dallying and sticking to my goal of just popping online to write or print postage.

I didn’t go down any rabbit holes {hooray!} and kept my phone on silent for the majority of the week. I love when that happens.

In The Kitchen

I was planning on making a lentil salad but I overcooked the lentils and ended up just having them with eggs instead. I’ll have to try again. 

On a side note, have you ever tried Tate’s chocolate chip cookies? The HH brought home a single serving bag of the minis and they were pretty good. Thin and crispy!

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 {working on it}

Rug Hooking

I finished the special order table runner, listed some big bundles of wool in my Etsy shop and started another rug. I’m hoping to have another grouping of rugs and pillows to offer around Mid-May. 

My {wool} plan for this week is to do a little spring cleaning and go through all my wool bins and “office” area. 

We are planning on sanding the floors in the two front rooms at the studio in May so I need to go through everything, get organized, pack everything up and clear out the rooms.

Rug Hooking Goals For This Year

• Finish drawing out all my patterns, making kits, dyeing wool by March 31st. 
• 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 still have a use it or lose it airline credit I need to redeem by the end of summer. I don’t even want to think about it right now though. There’s too much other stuff going on. All I want to do is to play in the garden right now.

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}
• NYC 

Walk And Stretch More

I got a few walks in last week and was able to add to my heart shaped rock collection. My longest walk was 3 hours. 😉 I still need to come up with a stretching routine though.

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

I started two flats of Shasta daisy seeds and I think I’ll start two more. I love daisies and I love that they come back year after year too. 

Plus they make a great seasonal flower border too!

Garden Goals For This Year

• Rework the driveway and garden areas {in progress}
• Go crazy and plant a ridiculous amount of flowers {working on it}
• Step out of my comfort zone and plant some flowers I’ve never planted before

Paint

I finally had time to break out the paint and brushes! Yesterday I painted the beadboard in the entryway next door. It looks so good!

The HH did a really nice job installing the beadboard. Today he’s going to sand the trim around the doors {and fill a few spots} and once that dries, I’ll paint the door and floor trim. Then I’ll paint the walls.

I still haven’t decided on a wallpaper yet. The HH thinks we should just paint the walls white and be done with it. I think it might be fun to do something a little crazy. 

We’ll see. 😉

Hey! Can you believe it’s Monday already? Have a good one!

~Mavis

Painting Goals For This Year

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