My Goals For 2026 – Week 37 of 52

Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug

I have been spending less and less time on the internet and social media this year, which has been fantastic. There are SO MANY other cool things to do with your time than sitting in front of a screen, in my opinion.

That being said, we did check out The Duke from the library and loved it. It was the first new {to me} movie I’ve seen in a long time. 

Television licensing in the UK. Holy cow. If you want a rabbit hole to go down, it’s an interesting one, that’s for sure.

In The Kitchen

The HH is still cooking up garden fresh vegetables  multiple times a week. Cookies, tea and vegetables. What more do you need?

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 listed a couple of new pillows and a turkey rug in my Etsy shop the other day.  

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

The Kiln Guy sent me a boatload of Cadbury & More bars!!! Oh my word they are SO GOOD. 

I like to keep them in the fridge and enjoy two squares with my afternoon tea. I think The HH loves them as much as I do. Thank you Kiln Guy!!

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

It was another great week for walking on the beach. There is always something new to see and put in my pocket. Lately I’ve been finding a lot of wishing stones and cool pieces of driftwood. 

I love the wrap around porch on this house!! Isn’t it dreamy?

Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year

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

Garden

The pumpkin vines on the front fence are starting to get that white powdery mildew on them that they always seem to get at the end of the season. 

The pumpkins haven’t a speck of orange on them yet though so I should probably do something about it. 

Our neighbor is growing pumpkins as well and hers are already orange. I should ask here when she started her seeds. I don’t think I started mine until around mid June.

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 need to get the rest of the fence stained before the cold weather hits, but I don’t think this week is going to be a good one for painting. 

Temperatures in the 60’s though, what a welcome change. What’s this week’s forecast looking like in your neck of the woods? 

Is it time to break out the flannel shirts yet? 

~Mavis

Painting Goals For This Year

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