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Phew!

February 28, 2008 by stephalicious

I seem to have become the worlds worst blogger. I always have such high hopes and good intentions of blogging every few days, but lo and behold the same thing always happens. I keep up the blogging for a few weeks and then everything gets too busy and I get distracted with life, and forget my little blog that I had been so good at keeping up with.

This has definitely happened again. I wish I could keep up with a blog, but I think I am destined to be the feed in your Google reader that barely justifies being there. I love the idea of blogging, I definitely have enough content going around in my head, I simply find the execution difficult. To blog regularly takes time, and to blog well takes even longer. The time factor is the main reason that I do not blog more often, I simply cannot justify to myself the time lost whilst blogging.

Maybe the solution to this is to set time aside each day or each week specifically to blog, to gather my thoughts and help me direct my work further. This way I don’t have to worry about feeling guilty about not blogging 24/7 as I will have a set time to blog.

Serious organisation is needed this week as Aral is going away for most of March. I am thinking of dividing my tasks up into set days and times, to help me keep on top of things.

I seem to have totally failed with my super secret project. I have produced a whole lot of modified clothing pieces, but I just totally stalled at the photography stage. As they are a range of sizes I couldn’t model them all myself, and I failed to find a solution around this problem. So I am stuck with stock to sell but no photographs. I think I have gotten to the stage now where I am going to just take flat pictures of the clothes and put them up on Etsy anyway, until I can come up with a better solution.

I came back from Amsterdam yesterday after FITC, which was a pretty cool conference held in a beautiful building. I didn’t really like Amsterdam tho, I got a bad vibe from the place and the distinct feeling that there were a lot of people there for all the wrong reasons. It’s a very beautiful city but I definitely wouldn’t go back in a hurry.

I really enjoyed teaching Relly and Jessica to sew dresses, Relly’s isn’t quite finished but will be soon and Jessica’s is finished and looking beautiful. I am really pleased that Jessica’s dress came out so nicely and I’m so glad that they didn’t totally hate dressmaking. I hope I showed them that it doesn’t have to be boring and difficult, it can actually be quite fun, and the feeling that goes with wearing something that you have made, is like nothing else (especially when some one says “I love your dress, where’s it from”). I also really liked teaching sewing and I am thinking it is something I would like to do more of in the future, once I have bettered my own skills.