This is the question I am pondering. I have been loving my blogging experience, but feel like it's not quite right. This all started about a year ago when a psychic told me that I would be a writer or some kind of a scribe. I immediately laughed at her and said there is no way I could be a writer...HA! She was a bit upset with me and said not to discount it. I have never written anything, and quite honestly I have trouble talking, let alone writing. I don't even want to discuss my poor grammar and having to go to summer school in the 10th grade for English. So, I pushed that craziness out of my head and went on with life as usual. About 5 months later, I started getting interested in blogs. I knew they were out there but didn't explore them much. The first blog that really caught my attention was Hello, my name is Heather. Why? I think it was because she designed patterns for fabric and her blog was so beautiful. I also fell in love with her studio and I think it really resonated with me on a deeper level... I want to do that.
My life at the time was not great. I have a full time job (that I really like) but it is an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour and a half drive from home. My fault, because we rented the house we are living in after I got the job. We decided on this place because it is close to my husbands work and it is amazing. It is a 167 yr old stone farm house on a hundred acres with a stream that runs by the front of the house. I couldn't pass it by, plus the rent was cheaper than all of the places that were closer. It was meant for me...I will cover that in another post. Anyway, I was pretty depressed because of my commute and I was having some issues with my partner of the stationery business, which was eating up any free time I had. Things were not good for me, my energy was so low. (My partner and I have since resolved our issues and are very happy.)
One night, I picked up my laptop and got in bed and decided to start my own blog. Just like that, the thought had never crossed my mind before. I needed for something to be my own. My design work at work was not my own, and my design work for my stationery company at the time did not feel like my own. Oh, and I still hadn't thought about the fact that the psychic told me that I would be writing.
It took me a day to pick the name and TypePad as my provider and about a week of working every night to design the site and get started. I had no idea of what the content would be. I just knew that I needed to be inspired by something and that hopefully that would heal my wounded soul. That is how I came up with the name Design Healing . There was a point in the beginning where I had 3 blogs all linked together. Design Healing was design oriented, Our Healing Circle was more new age/spiritual in nature, My Journal, was just that, my journal. I buried that one in my Our Healing Circle blog because it was so personal. I eventually limited it to the blog that you see. My problem is that I haven't felt 100% connected to any of my blogs. They just weren't right, but there were pieces of them that were.
I started to really think about this lately. I have a hand full of blogs that I look at everyday. They are wonderful and unique in their content. I can feel the passion behind the writers of these blogs. Decor 8, Design for Mankind, Please Sir, Creative Thursday and The Black Apple are just a sampling of my favorites. Please see my blogroll to view the rest. Is my blog unique? I think some aspects of it are, but not as a whole. I think my heart is in the right place but my content is not. So, I thought about what first attracted me to blogging and it was the Heather Bailey site. She was making things... I love making things! I would love to have a blog that was more about my creative life as an artist. I would love to spend my free time painting, designing, and sewing. I would also like to share more about what inspires me at my core, both creatively and spiritually. I think that is why I find myself over at the Creative Thursday blog a lot these days. Marisa is a huge inspiration to me. I think her site is a nice mix of all things. I think it is the model for my new blog.
I think I will be keeping my Design Healing name (for now) but slowly will be changing the content. I do love showcasing the work of artists and designers but there are so many better blogs out there that do that. It will still be something that I do here, but it will be a smaller part of my content. I want to share my work and my life more with you, with the other stuff mixed in. This change may take a while because my time is so limited, but I feel really excited about this decision because it means that I get to play more. My first step in this new venture is to take some sewing lessons. Yes, 11 years as a doll maker and I never learned how to sew. I taught myself some basic stuff and am really good at making pillows (cause they are easy).
To start off my new blog I will be posting some things I have made in the past. Thanks so much for listening. I don't know what I would do without you. Much love.
