The Pinterest Project

Long time, no see everyone! I ended up taking the summer/fall/winter off from my blog to get some much needed renovations done on our home and to try to build my Hillside Farms brand a bit. I have been hosting woodworking classes each month up at the store and have been LOVING that.

But with the New Year quickly approaching, I have started thinking about what I want to accomplish in 2019. 2018 has been an incredible year, we bought our dream property and are turning our home into our dream home, our kids are all doing well, we are blissfully happy in our marriage, and since February the two of us have lost a combined total of about 115lbs. We feel happier, stronger, and lighter than we have felt in years, and although we are not done with our journey, we are well on our way.

I believe that the things in life that make us the happiest are when we are working towards a goal or dream, so that left me wondering “What can I do in 2019 to better our lives?” “What do I want to accomplish in the next 12 months?” “What 5/10 year goals do I have that I can work towards this year?” And together, we came up with a few answers. But I can’t reveal them all yet as they are still just dreams, with no concrete plans in place.

What I can let you in on though is that I have decided to dedicate the next 12 months to what I am affectionately calling “The Pinterest Project”. If, like me, you spend any free time you have scouring Pinterest for “the next big thing” then you know that it’s easy to pin projects, ideas, and recipes but how many do you actually do?? I have probably used about 20% of the pins on my boards. 

20%

That’s a terrible number.

So I’ve decided that I am going to tackle 1 pin a week for the 52 weeks of 2019. Some weeks will be a woodworking project, some weeks will be a craft, some weeks will be something in the garden, and some weeks will simply be a new recipe.

I’m really looking forward to the next 52 weeks. The next 52 projects. With our home almost completely renovated and my office at the store in the middle of a renovation I need lots of new decor so finding projects to complete shouldn’t be too difficult!

I will post weekly after I have completed my project and let you all know if it was a successful project or not. I have seen several epic Pinterest fails so hopefully I don’t end up as one of them lol!!

Some of these projects will take longer than a week but I will post when it is complete.

Here’s to the next 52!!!