I found that I miss blogging about my art and crafting endeavors very much, and I’ve considered returning many times, but I haven’t set aside the time to do so.

The “cocoon project” as I called it, in which I stopped posting any art online for a year, did have its benefits, but it went much further than the one year I planned on. In the end there was a point in which it stopped being beneficial, and I found myself needing to share my work again. Maybe that means it’s finally time for me to break out of my cocoon and try out my new wings.

I restored most of my old posts, culling only what I truly didn’t want in my archives anymore. I had thrown them all into my drafts. I couldn’t bring myself to really delete all of them, and I’m glad that’s the case. I painstakingly made sure to keep them in their original post order, though unfortunately in some cases the true original publishing date or time is off by a bit. WordPress makes it a little too easy to mess that up!

Recently I have found myself becoming a little bit of a YouTuber. I’ve been making videos about restoring dolls, which includes some sewing. Machine sewing is a new skill I took on in the last year. I found while learning sewing I felt a strong desire to blog about the process of learning this brand new skill I have wanted to acquire my whole life.

I’m also taking on a 365 day No Buy challenge of certain 5 categories of items, which includes art supplies as well as dolls and toys. The need to blog about this has been eating at me! Sharing my journey strengthens my resolve and gives my challenge purpose.

So yeah, I’m back. I have to be! This blog is the closest thing I ever had to a consistent journal and in retrospect I can see the tangible benefits of maintaining this blog during the time I did. I deeply regret that I ever left. I know I was feeling overwhelmed, but a simple smaller hiatus would have sufficed.

More to come, hopefully quite soon. But for now… I need a nap! See you later!