Monday, November 18, 2013

First Post for this Newbie


          Well this is my first post as a blogger and I must warn all that I am still trying to figure it all out.  So until I am able to get a good handle on this thing I may be extremely boring.  Of course I may end up being extremely boring after I get a handle on it so it is going to be a bumpy ride LOL.  I hope that I am able to entertain a few, and inform others on my crafting experiences or those that I have discovered.  I won't guarantee that I will always write about crafting exclusively because like with everyone else my life bleeds into everything that I say and do.  I also want to say that I am not a professional - meaning that I have on a few occasions in my life sold some of my things but mostly I create for others, or just the pleasure of it.  I am also a little bit of a jumper sometimes.  By that I mean that I will do embroidery for weeks or months at a time but then one day I will wake up and start crocheting something and then the next day I will start a quilt or some other sewing project and then go onto making a doll or sculpting things out of air dry clay and sometimes LOL I will have all of the above going on in my craft room. That is when I have to stop and step back and say "time to take a crafting break and clean up this mess".  Which I do and then pick up one of the previously started projects and carry on.  I will admit that there are many projects that I have started in mt life that never got finished because of my jumping and that is not something that I am happy about but I don't stress over that trait in me anymore.  I just let the project go and move on.  
           Since I am 62 years old I have had plenty of time to try out new crafts.  Some were just one timers because they ended up not being something I enjoyed doing or something that I just was not good enough at for me to be happy with the finished results.  I have to admit that I am my own worst critic and sometimes my inner guy overrides the good comments of my family and friends.  As an example, I used to do landscape oil paintings and I even sold a few at local art fairs but mostly it was for my own enjoyment, but then I got divorced and moved three states back to Indiana where I was born.  I stopped painting within about a year.  That was over 20 years ago and no matter how many times I have tried I have only been able to finish two paintings.  My confidence is gone and I just can't bring myself to put a brush to canvas because of my fear of failure.  I know the problem but I just can't get past it.  Maybe someday but for now I have moved on to other creative endeavors which bring me and the receiver of my crafts pleasure.  Well I think that is all for now.  Next time I will try and describe what I am working on right now.  I must warn you though that with Christmas so close I am almost to the stepping back mode LOL.  Trying to get all of the things I have set myself up to get done by Christmas is almost too much.  Till next time Happy Crafting.

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