My Goals For 2026 – Week 35 of 52

Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug

It’s amazing what you see when you’re out on a walk sometimes. This past week I spotted a flyer, of a missing fly on the side of a building. 

If you’ve seen Justin, please contact the owner. 

In The Kitchen

Nothing but super basic stuff coming out of the kitchen these days. Vegetables, pickety bits and cookies. That’s about it. 

Food phases are interesting. For nearly a year and a half it was nothing but salads. Now it just seems like vegetable scrambles are on the menu daily.

Kitchen Goals For This Year

• Master the pear frangipane tart from Standard Baking Company. 
• Put my Weck jars to use. Working on it!!
• Use two bins of beans {Working on it}

Rug Hooking

I mad a big batch of sunflowers and listed them on Etsy last night. 

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.  {4 down 6 to go}
• Hook 27 of the patterns from the “someday I’ll hook these” bin. {12 down 15 to go}

Go New Places – See New Things

One of the best parts about traveling is the food. Especially the cookie and candy aisle of any store. 

Kiln Guy and The Chef picked up a Cadbury Dairy Milk & More bar for me when they were in Portugal and it is THE BEST chocolate bar I’ve ever had. 

I love Cadbury chocolate. But this bar, is #1. I wonder if I’ll be able to find another one.

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 {Girls getaway}
• John Mellencamp Concert + Stockbridge, MA

Walk And Stretch More

We’ve been doing a lot of walking lately and building up our stamina. 

I hope we can keep it up this winter. It’s a little tough to do when the temps dip down into the 30’s, but who knows, maybe we’ll become mall walkers this winter or something. 

Maybe I could get the HH to take up cross country skiing? Hmm. There’s a thought.

Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year

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

Garden

The green beans have been doing really well this summer. 

We have them growing in the raised beds, tall trellises and on the fence. I LOVE growing pole beans!! And I love how wild they become and will cling on to anything… Hibiscus plants included. 

It’s hard to believe {vegetable} gardening season will be over in just a few weeks and I’ll be back inside working on indoor projects again. 

Where did the summer go? 

Garden Goals For This Year

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

Paint

I went searching for my sunflower paint by numbers to hang on the wall and realized I never finished my last two paintings!! 

How did this happen? I thought for sure I had finished them and they were ready to hang. Now I have to try and find the paints.  Hopefully I didn’t toss them. 

Monday! Here we go. I hope you 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