Got my rune oracle deck finished today!! 😍 Ahhhhh I am so incredibly happy with how it turned out! And I’m so happy I was able to have it done in time for Halloween. I don’t know if anyone will use it but if no one else will, I will anyhow. I made this deck about a couple years ago after being inspired by Cocorrina’s Cosmic Whisper deck. I wanted to make something of my own that I could print at home on some good card stock. I also fully intended to sell it in my old Etsy shop but that never ended up happening. I might release it as a printable deck in the shop subdomain of my site if I ever get the time to get it up and running. For now though, anyone can use the decks I made on my site completely free in this fun interactive way. 🥰 So happy!
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I really love working on this site. I don’t think it’s very known but working on it and doing creative projects like this has brought me so much joy. I think a lot is the fact I don’t do any of it for the purpose of making a profit is what has made it so rewarding for me, and part of me does kind of feel like that’s why i’ve procrastinated so long on adding my shop subdomain. I work so very hard on everything I make here, but it’s purely for the joy of doing it because I love being creative. I have tried to turn my hobbies into businesses before but it always ends up killing the joy for me. I put so much pressure on myself to keep pumping out new products in order to keep up with Etsy’s algorithms and be active on social media. I couldn’t just make digital products and have them up for sale. It wasn’t enough. On Etsy you have to be active every day and put new products out often on order to rank. There are a lot of other things involved as well in having a successful Etsy shop. I actually took an entire course on it. The system of it just burnt me out and honestly, I don’t feel like I’m cut out for that. Not when I already work a full time job. I could easily spend an entire day working from morning til after midnight on a product. I pour so much love and energy into my creations, so much time, but it’s just not sustainable for me to pump quality products out at the rate I’d need to to rank. Then there’s the marketing aspect, trying to figure out Pinterest, and social media marketing. I hate marketing lol. Anyways, long story short, I feel a lot more motivation to create things when there’s no pressure of trying to compete with an algorithm. Maybe a shop on my own site would be different. I wouldn’t bother with advertising or social media marketing. It’d just be casual. If someone wanders in and gets something, it’d make my day, and if no one buys anything, that’s fine too. But at least the joy of creating won’t be robbed from me because of the pressure I’m put under to meet the algorithm’s standards. I don’t want to do that anymore, it’s exhausting.
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I’m not sure what my next project will be yet. One of these days I need to update the Library at Marigold Town. That’s something I’ve been putting off for a minute that really needs to get done soon. Hopefully before Christmas I’ll have something decent set up there. But if not, definitely sometime in the new year. Hopefully I’ll get a little more time off in January to be able to work on it.