Big Decisions
Life wouldn't life without a big decision or two...
For the past eight months I've been decorating my house. It's been a labour of love and one that is rather bittersweet. I started in September 2021 and finished the bulk of it last week, Tuesday 3rd May.
On Wednesday 4th May my house went
on the market.
It's been my home of the past 17 years, my comfort zone, the home I brought up my children in and the home I've lived in for the longest period of my life to date. So many memories — happy times, sad times, love, achievements, challenges and silliness. It looks amazing and it feels weird that someone else will now benefit from all my hard work, but I'm over that now. When I first walked into our home nearly 17 years ago, it had been totally refurbished. It's now looking as good (if not better) than it did when I took it over. I'm actually really proud of what I've achieved and how good it looks; I'm happy that whoever buys it will have the same blank canvas that I had.
Sometimes decisions are forced onto us from outside sources, this is one of those times. It's a long story and one that upsets, angers and frustrates me quite a lot, so I won't go into it here. Suffice to say, I've resigned myself to the fact that this decision has to be made and I'm going to make the best of it. Due to the fact that I've been totally engrossed in DIY for the past eight months, Colour My Dreams has been ticking along at a very slow pace. Running an independent business is tough enough by itself, but when your mind is on other things and your time is stretched in so many directions, something always suffers. I'm afraid that something has been my crafting.
After the trigger finger injury in my right thumb last year, I slowly got back to creating at the beginning of the year. My thumb wasn't fully recovered, but was certainly better and I felt that it might actually do it some good to exercise it a bit more. I started crocheting and knitting again, but of late I've had to stop. The decorating has taken it's toll on my poor ol' hands, I'm starting to suffer with arthritis in them and although they are now saying that exercise is good for arthritis, I'm not sure that the amount of use they were getting was really doing them any good. Then, I fell down my stairs and injured my left thumb (again), now I've got two hands that are extremely painful, typing is really the only thing I can do without excruciating pain. I've got x-rays booked at my local hospital in a week's time which will hopefully reveal what's causing the pain and treatment can begin ๐ค๐ผ.
With all this going on — having to stop crafting again and selling my house — I’ve decided I need to step aside from Colour My Dreams for now. I need to give myself time to concentrate on repairing my aches and pains; physically and mentally. I also need to reassess the direction of my business and start lining up the elements of this new direction so that my business can be relaunched in the not too distant future in a bigger, better and very exciting way.
I’ll be closing the online shop on my website at the end of June so that I work on my new ideas and get a new business plan written. However, you’ll still be able to purchase my products through Facebook and Instagram and my website will still be live. I have so many exciting ideas and I can’t wait to share them with you. I hope that Colour My Dreams will really be the dream that I’ve always wanted it to be.
Sometimes the ‘big decision’ moments are the ones that force us to make the changes that we may have been procrastinating over. I’m absolutely up for that challenge now and no one is going to stop me. No matter how many hurdles they put in place, I’ll leap over them with a huge grin and a smug satisfaction that they can’t stop me realising my dreams. I hope you’ll come with me on my new adventure. I promise it’ll be worth keeping a check on.
For now it’s au revoir, not goodbye! A bientot!
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