My 14 Goals For 2024 – Week 31 of 52

Eat More Fruits and Vegetables

Fruit this week has been in the form of dried fruit and there have been a few veggies, but not as much as previous weeks. We need to hit up Costco again for more salads!!

Visit 24 {new} Bakeries / Coffee Shops

No new bakeries this past week. But here’s a picture of a terra cotta bunny.

New Bakeries / Coffee Shops I’ve Been To This Year {That I liked}

• The Cookie Jar Pastry Shop
• Ritual Bakehouse and Patisserie
• Caramel Patisserie
• Standard Baking Co. 
• Saltwater Farm Cafe
• Coffee Roasters of the Kennebunks
• Farine Bakery and Cafe
• Night Moves Bread
• Cape Porpoise Kitchen

Go On An Adventure

I am honing in on my travel uniform for my trip to England. The goal is to have all my clothing/shoes/laptop fit into a single backpack. 

I will then put my “personal item” {backpack} in my soft sided suitcase for the plane. The ultimate goal is to leave England with a suitcase crammed full of all my favorite British treats {including my ALL TIME favorite Polo biscuits and 1 personal item {backpack} with shoes and clothes in it. 

For pretty much most of my adult life I’ve worn jeans and a long sleeve black T-shirt. Lately though I’ve been wearing navy blue chinos and really liking them. And as an added bonus, they match my shoes and look a little more grown up. They also take up less room in a backpack too! 😉

Contribute to 12 Free Little Libraries. {6 town down, 6 to go}

Towns I’ve donated books to:

• Gardiner, Maine
• Nobleboro, Maine
• Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine
• Cape Elizabeth, Maine
• Raymond, Maine
• Bellevue, Washington

Spend More Time At The Beach

It was a great week for beachcombing! Lucy found some baby crabs to munch on and I found a buoy, chum bag and a mini garden rack. I hid the buoy behind the barn so the HH wouldn’t see. 🙂 

He says I have too much beach “junk”. I told him I just need it to be winter so I can start my winter projects and put it all to good use. 

 

Read or Listen to 24 Books {7 down, 17 to go}

I didn’t listen to any new audiobooks this past week but I did buy a used headboard for $15 for the guest room. When the guys went to load it in the car for me they broke it. I thought it was a good deal {before they broke it} and was going to paint it white. 

Lame. Now I have to find another one. 

Books I’ve Read or Listened To This Year: 

• Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service by Gary Sinise. 10/10
• Elizabeth The Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith 9/10
• Wait Till Next Year by Dorris Kearns Goodwin 8/10
• George VI and Elizabet:by Sally Bedell Smith 9/10
• Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson 9/10
• These Precious Days by Ann Pachett 9.5/10
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Paint 

Frog tape. Have you used this stuff before? It’s 10x better than the blue painters tape. I love it. 

My current painting project is painting the shiny walls in the guest room {which will double as an additional workspace for me} my favorite color: Chantilly lace {in an eggshell finish}.

I told myself I wasn’t going to paint my walls white. But old habits… Well you know.

So far I’ve finished:

• Portrait of Joseph Roulin 
• Red Boats at Argenteuil
• Regattas at Argenteuil
• Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies 
• Sunflowers
• Garden Path with Chickens
• Goldfish

Hook 6 “Big” Rugs.

I haven’t finished a single rug hooking project since we moved in, but HEY, I found a chair to sit in this winter and hook my rugs from. The only problem is Lucy seems to think I bought it for her.

Large Rugs I’ve Hooked This Year

• Three Roosters
• Hidden In The Garden 
• Yankee Doodle
• Double Nantucket Whale Runner with the American flag

Visit 6 Greenhouses {1 down 5 to go}

I popped by the greenhouse yesterday and they were having a 50% off sale so I grabbed 3 hanging baskets. We had two epic rain storms last week and they decimated my other hanging baskets. 

Hopefully these ones will last until it’s time to decorate with mums and pumpkins. Oh how I’m looking forward to that!!

Grow Baby Grow

I also picked up a few perennials. I’m anxious to get my garden going but I can’t really get started until the fence is installed. I have a weakness for plants though {plants and bakery treats} and just HAD to have them.

There are worse hobbies than gardening and rug hooking, but still, I should have waited. I ended up going home with 3 coneflowers, 6 yarrow and 6 French lavender plants.

Donate to 12 Different Organizations in Maine

So Far This Year I’ve Donated To:

• Cleaning Up My Local Beach
• New Hope MidCoast {50 pairs of new socks}
• Humane Society {180 trays of cat food}
• Travis Mills Foundation
• Camp Sunshine
• Honor Flight Maine

So how are YOUR goals for 2024 coming along? I’d love to hear about them. 

~Mavis

Goals I’ve Already Completed This Year

In Stock and Ready to Ship by March 15th/ March 30th Now April 15th DONE!

I finally finished up all the major wool dyeing and pattern/kit making I had hoped too. All the “extra” wool is tucked away in bins so if I run out of wool in my Etsy shop I can whip up some more bundles in a jiffy. A summer off from dyeing wool… It’s going to be pretty rad.

Tidy Up / Clean Out / Purge DONE

We cleaned the whole house, inside and out. And then we sold it. Yee-Haw!

• Barn
• Garage
• Closets 
• Dresser drawers
• Kitchen 
• Sideboard
• DVD collection