Hello Friends!
Happy Friday! I'm getting off to a slow start this morning -
dragging my feet for I-don't-know-what reason. I'm excited to make the daisies
and take pictures of them. I'm excited to see what's in my mind come to life in
paper. Wait...
I just realized where the frustration comes from. I'm a bit
discouraged. And I know why...when I was taking pictures yesterday, I thought
they were turning out beautifully. Then I got them into my photo editing
software. Oh. NO. They were so gray!
I cleaned them up as well as I could but I wasn't really
happy with the results. To keep a personal commitment to myself (one post every
day this week), I stopped trying to fix the pictures and published my post at
about 11 pm last night.
Some people think blogging is intimidating and it can be,
especially if you compare yourself to famous bloggers or those whose websites
have millions of hits a month. My aim is not to be famous but to have an outlet
for the creative beast in my head. I'd love to have hundreds and thousands of
readers because then I would know that what I write about is reaching others.
However, if this blog is nothing more than a creative outlet, I'm okay with that. I like my life. This is the one I've chosen: to be
at home, working at what I love, at my pace, on my schedule. I'm able to spend a
lot of time with my husband and I hope to have time to, eventually, volunteer
more. I have aspirations to be healthy and
live a nice life well and within our means, be debt-free, give to charity
and love on my family as much as I can. Everything else is (buttercream) icing on the cake!
I'm writing all of this to say that if your aspirations are
anywhere near mine and you want to blog, start blogging. I started about 6
weeks ago and I have a lot of kinks to work out but if I waited until
everything was perfect, I'd have never started. I waited for perfect for almost
10 years and I finally decided that imperfect was better than the nothing I'd
produced for 10 years. Nothing can never become perfect but imperfect
can certainly get better!
And I wrote all of that as a really long way to say I apologize for my picture
quality yesterday! My pictures will get better and so will a lot of other
things around here. In the meantime, thank you for going through this process
with me and letting me share my creations with you. I'm loving it more all of
the time!
And here, at last, are the daisies I spoke of this past Monday. I'm so happy with how happy they look. I'll publish directions and the downloadable cut files this next Monday. Have a great weekend!
More to come!
~ M ~
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