#MarchMeetTheMaker - 23rd March, 2021
Mar 23, 2021
JOB/S
I’m sure every crafter, freelancer, self employed individual will agree that they don’t just do one job. Many of us choose to be self employed so we can do the jobs we’re good at in our own way. We also do the jobs we’re not good at in our own way. Eventually some of those jobs become less tedious as we work out the best to do them that works for us (and our accountant!).
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Here’s my list of jobs:
- Chief Crafter - knitting, crocheting and macrame
- Website Designer
- Graphic Designer
- Social Media content writer
- Marketing & PR
- Pattern creator/writer
- Buyer (Materials)
- Research & development
- Customer Service
- Secretary/Administrator
- Photographer & Model
- General dog’s body, coffee maker, sandwich buyer…
- Etc.
The list is inconclusive, every day throws up a new or different challenge, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
Colourful Ramblings
Life has been somewhat topsy turvy for the past few years. With Covid affecting the whole world and then my own little world being challenged with the tedium that comes with trying to sell my house and move to somewhere new; I've been feeling somewhat overwhelmed. The one constant in my life has been my yarns, hooks and needles. I honestly think they are to thank for getting me through the past four years with a semblance of sanity in tact.
If I was to rank 2022 on a scale of 1 - 10, it's a solid 5. Neither wonderful nor disastrous, in school report terms, "could do better".
A new life and a new start is in reaching distance, I just have to be patient. I’ll keep doing the right things to make it happen and hopefully, before long I’ll be sharing with you my new adventure.
This day was always going to come, the day I say au revoir to all of you who signed up to my newsletters, visited my website, bought my products and offered kind words of support. Many of you did that regularly and I’m really grateful.
It took a pandemic to make me realise that I am enough. Yes, the me that I am today is more than enough, I don’t need to be anything more. I discovered that I don’t need to wear make-up and wash my hair every day (yes, I used to wash it every day - how ridiculous was that) and my pared back wardrobe was more than enough too.
