March Meet the Maker - 17th March 2022
17 March 2022
Sell Yourself
For many creatives, the worst part is selling. We’re not natural sales people; we are artists, creatives, crafters and makers. ‘Bigging’ ourselves up is not something that comes easily. I know how finely tuned my talents and skills are in my world of craft, but telling you that I’m amazing and better than all the rest would feel like a lie or at the very least, too much of an ego trip.
I’m good at what I do, but I’m also realistic about what I can’t do and that only comes with age and experience. I dread to think how I would have coped as a 20 something trying to make it in this crazy world of social media perfection. I admire other people’s skills and sometimes feel insignificant and not good enough, but then I remind myself that I am the best at what I do and that is enough.
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Colourful Ramblings
Life has been somewhat topsy turvy for the past few years. With Covid affecting the whole world and then my own little world being challenged with the tedium that comes with trying to sell my house and move to somewhere new; I've been feeling somewhat overwhelmed. The one constant in my life has been my yarns, hooks and needles. I honestly think they are to thank for getting me through the past four years with a semblance of sanity in tact.
If I was to rank 2022 on a scale of 1 - 10, it's a solid 5. Neither wonderful nor disastrous, in school report terms, "could do better".
A new life and a new start is in reaching distance, I just have to be patient. I’ll keep doing the right things to make it happen and hopefully, before long I’ll be sharing with you my new adventure.
This day was always going to come, the day I say au revoir to all of you who signed up to my newsletters, visited my website, bought my products and offered kind words of support. Many of you did that regularly and I’m really grateful.
It took a pandemic to make me realise that I am enough. Yes, the me that I am today is more than enough, I don’t need to be anything more. I discovered that I don’t need to wear make-up and wash my hair every day (yes, I used to wash it every day - how ridiculous was that) and my pared back wardrobe was more than enough too.
