2024 Goals Week 1 of 52

I worked my butt off this first week of 2024!

1. Home repairs professionally done – New kitchen countertops, rip out over-the-oven microwave and replace with new exhaust hood, trim all fruit trees and cut down all sumac in the hedgerow. Nothing yet on this goal but I have an estimate coming for the new counters. Yay!
2. Home projects done by us – Paint all trim in kitchen, re-paint upper kitchen cabinets, paint ceiling and walls in hallway, finish painting and put up picket pallet fencing, finish painting master bedroom and hang mantle over bed, front porch stained or painted, new brick patio in the backyard. Nothing yet!
3. Sewing projects – Finish Joyce’s Rose, New curtains for kitchen window, new seat cover for kitchen chair, new curtain over cat’s window seat, Christmas tree skirt, finish winter and summer season x-stitch projects. I am so bad, I haven’t felt like doing anything with my stitching lately
4. Read 30 books (It’s my goal every year) I finished “Buttercups in the Basement” by Jane Harvey. I have really enjoyed this series and Ms. Harvey’s writing style.
5. Take at least 2 mini vacations and see my step-daughter’s new house in NC. This is a goal for warmer months.
6. Garden goals – raise 500 lbs of produce, new kitchen garden in front and new fruit garden in back, compost all dug and reset, raised bed garden re-imagined. I need to start planning.
7. Exercise somehow every single day concentrating most on core and pelvic floor and mobility. I exercised 3 days this week and boy did I forget how winded I get with cardio!
8. Get all of my Etsy listings listed by March 31st so I can enjoy my garden in the Spring and summer months. This is what I worked on the most this week. I got 7 listings up. That may not sound like a lot but they were massive listings. Five large sets of dishes and 2 small listings. The sets take me a long time because I have to inventory and inspect all of the pieces, wash and photograph them, and then measure them and list them. The listings take a while to write because with these big sets, each variation within the listing has a different size, price and quantity. Pretty mind exhausting if I am being honest.
9. Explore the Western NY Antique Trail (Yes, there is such a thing). Hopefully in the next few weeks we can explore this trail.
10. Explore at least 3 local walking/biking trails. Warm weather for this goal.
11. Sell 300 listings on Etsy this year. Sold 5 last week, only 295 more to go!
12. Church goals – Six thrift sales this year, Work on baptism records and historical info, work on getting our church info out there for weddings, one historical themed event/fundraiser this year. Our next thrift sale is Feb 10th!
13. Pay off one of the two credit cards. Check out my Not Impressed with our Debt post later this week.

That’s it this time! How are you doing with your goals? – MM

P.s. if you would like to check out my Etsy shop here is the link https://redmillvintageandnew.etsy.com