Hello again from Forgetful Fairy Art Studio!
It feels like a milllion years have passed since I last posted... there were all the Chirstmas orders - so long ago now, then birthdays, then a school valentine's disco to help organise, then Easter, keeping up with the children's busy lives... and all the while steadily chipping away at re-making my website...
There were lots of reasons for this...
♥ I want it to reflect where I am after actually making and selling some of my beautiful wares for a while
♥ It was proving waaaaay to time-consuming creating my e-shop with so many PDF products - it might be something I return to, but it just wasn't where the creative flow was headed; I found that whilst certain things were taking off, the website was just being left behind, so I have chosen to simplify it...
♥ There was no page on my site showcasing the lovely wool fairies so this needed to change...
♥ It was just time.
And it's taken FOREVER!
I thought we would have it done by the end of January... and the only way that it is now done, almost 5 months later, is my chipping away bit by very tiny bit...
Our campervan project has leapt gloriously into the foreground and taken up almost all of Vince's precious spare time, giving him about half an hour on a Friday to help me with any website tweaks, whilst I litterally have returned to it once or twice a week, amidst mothering, helping the school PTA, keeping my crafting & facebook page just about still going, and added the smallest change but the biggest that I could manage at that moment... and now here it is!!
So all the while during those frustrated, slow, impatient moments where I felt I was loosing the faith (for this little crafty venture so dear to my heart)... all I really needed to know was that
It all adds up! Even the tiniest things add up!
Every time I turn up to give even the smallest amount of energy to something dear, is forward momentum, growth and change... even if I can't always see it at the time.
So this is unintentionally a KEEP THE FAITH kind of message to anyone else in the middle of a taking forever kind of project - doing up your kitchen, starting a new business, buying a house, cleaning out a cluttered cupbourd, a painting that you just can't seem to finish whilst your time is taken mothering, a life change that is taking forever to manifest...
Every little thing adds up!
I'm so happy to have finally re-crafted this little fairy-dusted space and can't wait to get creating again on all the other things... I have soooo many plans!
♥ To create special hand-designed & crafted boxes to package my beautiful fairies
♥ A children's story book that I have the story & theme for & have been dreaming about for ages
♥ A children's meditation
♥ To share lots of lovely children's craft projects that we have tried and as we do them - possibly an e-book
♥ To actively blog again about family crafty things...
♥ Lots of lovely magical fairies that keep apearing to me
♥ Go to market again
♥ To explore selling on Etsy
♥ To explore selling on Etsy
♥ To get back to canvass painting...
♥ To teach (after being asked quite a few times) - wool crafting techniques.
Until the Autumn when my youngest starts school, it's hard to envision exactly when I will find the time for all of these, but I know that I will keep working, chipping away, bit by tiny bit, it will all take as long as it takes, things might change, ideas might come and go, but I'll keep at it and it will lead to beautiful things, important things...(more on why's it's important later!)...
I hope you'll pop back here to visit from time to time, and follow my facebook page, and wishing you well for all the creative projects of your own...
With Love,