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OK, So I’m A Freak ~ We All Are

Posted in Blogging, Everyday, tagged , , on May 22, 2012| 2 Comments »

Thank you, internets.  Or more appropriately, all of you behind what I find on the internets.  I can always count on you.  The thing is, I was procrastinating, I was feeling overwhelmed, I was filled with electrifying jolts of anxiety and you all came through for me in a very weird act of bloggy synchronicity.

I’m still procrastinating, feeling overwhelmed, and filled with electrifying jolts of anxiety, but I found I’m not the only one. I’m not the freak I thought I was.

“Gooble gobble, gooble gobble, one of us. We accept her, we accept her. One of us. One of us.”

Misery loves company…and education and enlightenment.  I get them all with you.  I can rest easy knowing there are so many of you out there in the vastness of cyberspace who are going through the same things as I am, or have the answers on how to hurl myself out of this spiraling vortex of disaster.

“And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we’re sleeping underneath the same big sky”

In my frazzled glory I’m going to leave it all up to you this week.  I’ve got things to do, but I’ll be watching you in between the tasks and chores.  Have a marvy week.

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Hello, I Must Be Going

Posted in Blogging, Craft Business, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 24, 2012| 2 Comments »

More and more I am embracing the sentiment “you can’t have it all.”  Because it’s true, you can’t.  You can’t have it all and you can’t be it all.  And when I say you I mean me.

I’ve been spoiled with time and freedom in my life.  I don’t have a multitude of obligations, I don’t have kids, I have a day job that requires no more than forty hours a week, and I have a husband who is fine with my doing pretty much whatever I want, provided I afford him that same luxury.  When I started Auntie B’s Wax I was free to spend as much or as little time with it as I wanted.

Then came my fascination with blogs.  I was reading The Pioneer Woman before she was famous.  I’m so thrilled with Jenny and her newly published book I want to take her out for a celebratory drink even though I’ve never met the woman.  Donna and her funky junk makes me want to live a completely different lifestyle, as does Corey in France.  The more I grew my business and the more I read blogs the more I realized I must be doing something wrong.

How do they do it?  Those bloggy women are running their businesses, they’re raising families, they present a blog post every day and they all appear to be clean and well-groomed individuals.  (It’s no accident I don’t post my picture on this blog.)

Here’s the thing.  If I hit the homekeeping chores in a way that satisfies me the business suffers.  If I concentrate on the business (which includes keeping my Etsy shop up to date, getting inventory ready for live shows, keeping consignment stores stocked, doing the paperwork, and actually making things to sell), as well as putting out a blog post every day, my house turns into a nasty abode unfit for any creature, human or not.

I don’t have a point with all of this, really.  I’ve just stopped by to say, hello, but I must be going now.  Off to dust off the credenza.  Off to unmold the candles.  Off to make a meal of comfort food.  Off to bead some drink charms.  Even though I know it will never happen, I want to be one of those women who can do it all.  Or at least appear so from your computer screen.

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My Blogs

Posted in Blogging on December 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

When I discovered blogs I thought I was in heaven.  The internet is awesome!  There are so many people out there with so many things to say.  There are blogs about how to make stuff and how to buy stuff people made themselves.  There are blogs that make me laugh.  There are blogs that give me encouragement.  There are blogs that teach me a simpler way of living and feeling really lavish about it.

I’ve fallen behind on my reading lately just because my real life has been kind of busy and at times chaotic in recent weeks.  Ailments of family members, taking care of business, and Christmas preparations have filled my days since the beginning of November.  Not being able to read my blogs is like missing a life-long friend.

When I browsed my list of favorites and peeked into them for updates I immediately felt invigorated.  Looking into the lives of other people, even if they’re manufactured lives for the sake of readership, makes me think about how I want to live my own life.  I want to speed things up and I want to slow things down.  I want to adjust priorities and juggle business and leisure time with the expertise of a person who has her act completely together.

In short, catching up on my blogs is a great way to step into the new year.  I feel inspired and refreshed.  I’m not sure how long this feeling will last, but for now it feels great.

If you want to feel inspired and refreshed and maybe laugh a big, take a look at one, two, or all of the blogs I have listed in my sidebar under Inspiration and Entertainment.  Tell them Auntie B sent you.  Enjoy!

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It’s That Time Again

Posted in Blogging, Everyday, tagged on October 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

It’s not that hard to get a book published these days.  With self-publishing you don’t even need those pesky editors and publishers, not to mention agents.  I won’t go so far as to say this is a good thing because I’m one of those people who wants to read good books.  I have a little predjudice in that I figure if someone has to go through all the red tape of getting a book published (those pesky editors, publishers, and agents) the book must be good.  Not necessarily so.  It’s also not necessarily so that a self-published book is a bad one.

The bottom line isn’t about who publishes a book though, it’s about who writes it.  The hard part isn’t getting it published, it’s getting it written, or at least that’s what I believe.  I would bet a great majority of people have at least once in their lives fantasized about writing a book.  Picture it, sitting at an isolated mountain retreat with your laptop and a never-ending pot of coffee, typing away at The Great American Novel.  You can totally see yourself doing it.  The thing is, you need a plot, characters, and a beginning, middle, and end of a story.  That’s hard.

The people over at NaNoWriMo are here to help.  November is National Novel Writing Month and dozens (if not hundreds, nay thousands) of people join the challenge to write a 50,000-word novella in the span of thirty days.  It’s a blast, and if you register at NaNoWriMo you can commiserate and celebrate with your fellow novelists.  You don’t even need to be at a mountain retreat to do it!

I’m going to give it a shot again this year.  I completed a “novel” a couple of years ago and it stunk.  But I did it and I’m proud of the discipline I had.  Don’t try to find me on the NaNoWriMo site because like most good novelists I’m going to have a pseudonym.  Probably something like John Smith.  I’m even going to open up a new (and private) blog for storage of my literary work of art.

I know a couple of you out there who could whip out 50,000 words without a problem.  Quit making excuses ~ it requires less than 1700 words a day.  This post alone has over 350 words and it took me less than 20 minutes to write them.

Join me this coming Tuesday for the big kick-off.  NaNoWriMo will be glad to have you, and the world will be glad to have your novel.  NaNoWriMo begins November 1st.  As Nike says, “just do it!”

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Cool Change

Posted in Blogging, tagged , on October 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Welcome!  To you who followed me from my other blog I exclaim a hearty thank you.  To you who haven’t met me yet, I hope you’ll stick around so we can get to know each other.

Change takes me by unpleasant surprise, typically.  But this time I feel uncharacteristically invigorated by the changes I’m making.  I like it, the fresh feeling I get from these changes.  Settle in with me.  I’ll continue to work on this little piece of the universe, making cool changes as I go along.  For now I’ll thank you for peeking in and sincerely hope you’ll come back to visit often.

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