Even though we’re still tabulating all of your fabulous suggestions from our reader poll, we thought it was about time that we put some pretty solid goals out there going into year number two of Young House Love.
And why write them down in some notepad that we could easily lose when we can publish them for all to see (thereby lighting a fire under our rumps in the process)? Moving into the next year as bona fide bloggers, here are ten things that we’d love to accomplish on the homestead and in the blogosphere:
Get Your Read – We wanna write more fun and interactive posts like this (which resulted in this).
Change The Scenery– I’ll take over John’s role as “video guy” so he can grace you with his presence in one of our upcoming video tours (as opposed to my overexposed mug).
Listen Up- We’re hearing that you guys would love regular features like $0 room makeovers and a deal of the week write-up so stay tuned for more of whatcha want in the next 12 months.
Seriously Detox– We vow to further embrace eco-friendly products and practices- and solicit lots of help along the way (we’re loving all the comments you guys left us here).
Kid Around– We’re dying to do a quickie same-day childrens room makeover (like we did to Carrie’s Philly apartment except for a delightful & deserving kid) so stick around for that in the coming months.
Get The Goods– We’d love to expand our shop offerings beyond prints and portraits and hope to someday supply home accessories and accents to swankify the world one room at a time.
Tech Things Up– Young House Love in 3-D? Smell-o-vision? Ok maybe not, but we’d love to become more technologically savvy so nothing stands in our way when it comes to bringing you fresh and fabulous content in the coming year.
Be More Social– We’d love to make better use of Twitter, Facebook, and all that other fun social media that we’re already using (but not as well as we could).
Get Around– We’d really like to house crash more homes (like this and this) outside the bounds of our delightful hometown. So cross your fingers that we wiggle our way into abodes far and wide for the inside scoop on how people live from coast to coast.
Enjoy The Ride– Sure blogging is a lot of typing, uploading, editing, and photoshopping, but we love every minute of it (well, almost every minute). So when we’re having one of those days when our server is taunting us or our latest post somehow deleted itself, we want to remember how lucky we are to do what we love every single day.
How about you guys? Any goals for the next 366 days (thanks for the bonus day, leap year!) that you wanna share with the world? Do tell!
Image found here (without our heads on it of course, we added those)
Wow, I’m excited to see all those things coming!
Ourgoals for next year:
1. Get our blog going.
2. Save as much as we can into our “house buying” account.
Just wanted to say, that I summbled across your blog a few weeks ago and love it! Can’t wait to see what the next year brings. But what really motivated me to post was that I’m from Calgary and am currently wearing my #34 Mika Kiprusoff jersey….
PS If you’re ever up in the great white north your more than welcome to crash my place
Well this all sounds fab! My 3rd grade teacher always set it’s good to have goals…and despite her best attempts at getting me to focus at the tender age of 8, I’m still all over the place. Sorry, Mrs. Weeks!
I’ll head over to twitter to follow you…still figuring out the best use of that myself (other than to say things, like, “Lunch today gave me heartburn.”). And if your travels bring you to the Jersey Shore, please feel free to crash our pad. :-)
Sounds like fun! If you’re up for a trip to Austin, Texas, we’d love to have you crash our home. It’s most definitely a work in progress. And we promise that we’ll let you spend plenty of time with the world’s cutest two year old (okay, so it’s not an official title, but we’re her parents, and we’re really biased).
Hey everyone,
Thanks for sharing your goals/inviting us to crash your pads! We’ll definitely keep it in mind should we ever get our act together and actually hit the road! Wheeee!
xoxo,
Sherry
Am I the only one confused by the 366 days comment? This year (2008) was s leap year, but next year (2009) is not. So we still just have 365 days in the coming year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year
Sorry. I wasn’t going to say anything, becuase for some reason I felt kinda bad being so picky about it. But I’m an engineer, so nubmers are my thing and this just keeps bugging me.
:-)
Hey Jessica,
You’re totally right! I guess we were just hopeful that we could sort of count that extra day towards our second year. But we’ll just have to relish in the fact that our year one had a bonus day instead. Good catch chica!
Thanks for keepin’ us straight!
xoxo,
Sherry
I know this is an old post, but as ANOTHER Calgary, Alberta gal, I just have to say you two look GREAT in Red! Go Flames Go!