My Goals For 2026 – Week 38 of 52

Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug

I borrowed a few more What Women Create magazines from the library. Are you crafty? Have you thumbed through this magazine before? 

Talk about inspiring!! And their “stashes” of whatever supplies they use are sometimes pretty crazy too. 

Then again, most people would think I’m a hoarder of wool. Ha! But I’ve got plans.. For all of it. Or at least that’s what I have to keep telling my husband.

In The Kitchen

Back on the salad train. The way I see it, any day you can eat an avocado and bacon, is a good day.

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 haven’t really had any extra time to hook anything new lately. Mostly I’ve been dying wool and wrapping packages. 

Hopefully with the weather starting to cool down a bit I’ll be inside more. I figure we’ve only got about 2-3 decent weeks left working outside. 

I’m planning on signing up for a 30 day trial of BritBox this winter. Last winter there was a deal, 30 days for $1.99. I missed out on it though. Hopefully I’ll remember this year.

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 Rush concert in Boston!!! Can you believe it? This is turning out to be the year of concerts for us.

Okay, so maybe there’s only been two {Rush and John Mellencamp} but still. That’s two more than we’ve been to in the last 30 years combined.

All the bands we grew up listening to, those guys could retire at any moment. I told The HH if one of them is coming to town… We’ve got to go!

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

I’ve been finding quite a few treasures on my walks lately. The HH thinks it’s all junk but I’m having a good time. 

Sometimes he walks behind me and pretends not to know me because he’s embarrassed that I pick {FREE} stuff up. Whatever.

Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year

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

Garden

The leeks seem to be growing much faster now that the green bean plants are gone. Fingers crossed the temps stay above freezing for a few more weeks.

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

And last but not least, I started working on my Halloween buoys a few days ago.

So far I have twelve done {I need about 30}. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to fill the entire front fence with just candy corn buoys, or if maybe I should add another design or two. 

Maybe stripes? Or orange lobsters? Spiders? I’m not sure. Usually we decorate for Halloween towards end of September, so I better get moving!

Is it really Monday already? 

~Mavis

Painting Goals For This Year

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