Geez. It’s been 25 days since I last posted haha. I have good reason for being gone though. I’ve been busy! For the past while I’ve been feeling like I need to get my life together. Need to make something for myself, get educated, build multiple streams of income. It might be that I’m getting older now. I’m in my 30’s, and I mean, that’s still young, but it’s also just the state of the world. It’s not easy to live off a single income anymore, and if anything ever happened to my spouse, I don’t think I’d be okay on my own. I’d figure it out but, I think things would be extremely hard for me as my current work is not really a skilled profession. I used to have a skilled profession in graphic design; I worked at my local newspaper for a time as an ad designer. They went through some financial hardships though and I was unfortunately one of the chosen layoffs. What I should have done if I was smart, was I should have looked around for employment in another graphic design job as soon as possible, but I didn’t do that. I jumped back into retail because it was easy to get employed in and I settled. Graphic design is one of those things where it’s always being updated and you really gotta keep on top of the changes over the years and what’s relevant. So I feel like I’ve just become irrelevant now to what businesses look for and honestly, I’ve lost a lot of my confidence. I still do a lot of graphic design though and love working with layouts of things. I’ve had several Etsy shops over the years and was decent at it. Made money off it here and there but not enough to ever quit my retail jobs permanently, and the biggest reason for this is because of marketing. I struggle marketing and selling myself. I’ve pretty educated in it at this point, I know what I need to do. I love the things I make and take pride in them because I work hard, but when it comes to telling others that those things are great, I struggle, and maybe what it comes down to are some deeper issues with self worth within myself. I don’t know. But, I am trying again, because that’s what I do. I fail a million times at things and get back up and do it all over again, and every time I get a little better, a little wiser, and maybe this time I’ll get it right and push past that barrier.
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Anyways, that’s the long version of why I haven’t touched this website in awhile! I’ve been trying to get my life together starting up some businesses and various streams of income. Speaking of which though, I will also be working on the shop section of this website soon as well! I’ve known for awhile what I want to do here is create html/css layouts for the small web community. I think there are likely people who want to be part of this movement who aren’t really tech savvy to start, and for those folks, a pre-made html/css layout would be perfect. So I think selling layouts here might do well, as well as some other coded things and maybe graphics packs.
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I have a lot of plans, I just need to bring them to life now and that’s what I’m working on. Then outside of business stuff I also have a few other creative projects I’m working on. I kind of started working on something for my coworkers for the holidays. I have a lot of coworkers and I’ve been asking them all their favorite colors. They’re super suspicious but I’ve managed to keep it a secret for now. 😆 I won’t even say what it is here in the off chance one of them stumbles across my site and reads this, but I will say it’ll take me awhile to finish and I’ve started several months early because of it. But I plan to have it all ready for them for the holidays. Where I work now might not be what’s considered a skilled profession, but, I truly do love my coworkers and for the first time in a really long time, I feel like I’ve found somewhere that I really fit, which is rare for me. I really do love everybody I work with. ♥
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I think that’s about all for updates for now! I’ll try to be a bit more active on here soon. I’m getting caught up with webring requests tonight so for anyone who’s sent a request and hasn’t been accepted yet, I’m getting around to it this evening finally. Thanks for hanging in there with me and being patient!