Monthly Goals Update and This Week's Goals

When it comes to goals the last couple of weeks, not a lot got done on my "list".  I have come to realize that I was working on getting another list filled out that I had going in my head.  Things like:

• Get oil changed in car (did that last Tuesday)
• Get daughter's braces adjusted (got that done last Monday)
• Get freezers more cleaned out and odds and ends used up (a work in progress, but I'm getting there).  This has become somewhat of an obsession as I find things that I bought for say a recipe that never happened or I didn't use all of an ingredient, so I will find that in the freezer and then start to research and research some more on how to best use it up.
• Read "Wartime Farm" since it came in the mail and I've REALLY been wanting the book (ahem.  This has been getting accomplished this last week for sure *laugh*).

One goal I did manage to get part of the way through (two napkins down now and I'm about 1/2 way through the third) was embroidering the Spring themed napkins.  I decided to go with a "vintage" look to the napkins, so I went with an line art type of design to them vs. super realistic looking.  They are coming out really cute and doing this type of design also makes the embroidery go a LOT faster.  I mean I started and completed one napkin (the blue flowered one I'm working on in the photo above) in the afternoon and I'd finished it by about eight o' clock that night.  Very time effective :).

So, onto this week's goals!  I'm going to try and jam things into this week as much as I can because we don't have as many appointments this week and next week my kids are off for Spring Break, so I know that getting things done next week is going to be a LOT harder than this week!

Sewing Goals:

• Finish embroidery on napkins.  Press fusible lightweight interfacing on the back of them to help strengthen the material and protect the thread ends (I made them out of muslin, so I want to make sure they are fortified a bit). 
• Start work on dress.

Cleaning Goals:

• Wash floors (my son has made a MESS of them the last little bit)
• Shampoo carpets
• Dust top of kitchen cabinets and wash down fronts with Murphy's Oil Soap (the insides will come later I'm thinking)
• Start work on furnace room

General Goals:

• Get super glue and start on pile of broken toys for daughter.
• Fix magnet
• Fix vase (this one might take some work)
• Continue to work on cleaning out freezers and eating what needs to be used up 

And there you are folks.  My goals for this week.  How about you?