Resurrection – To blog or not to blog?
I’ve always struggled with blogging, and at first I wasn’t really sure why, but now I realize that the perception I have of most fashion/artist bloggers is that their success is based on how effective they are at making other people jealous of their lives. Most of the most famous fashion bloggers are very young girls that lead very charmed lives: they have money and are able to purchase all the latest designer clothes and accessories, they’re thin and beautiful, and have equally beautiful homes, friends, and active social lives.
I don’t really have any of those things. I’m dead broke, have gained a lot of weight since returning home from California, and I would say that my face is “average.” I’m going to be 25 at the end of the month, and I don’t really have anything in the way of a career. My house and studio are often a terrible mess, and neither is really “decorated.” Yes, I reduced my hours at my crappy retail job to stay home and work on my business, but that hasn’t really taken off for me in the way I thought it would. Frankly, if things don’t work out working for myself, there’s a very good chance that I will end up back in the mall working 35 hours a week doing something I absolutely HATE. The alternative to that would be going back to school and getting a degree in something I’m not interested in, and hoping that by the time I finish school THIS TIME, the economy will have picked up enough for me to actually get a job.
And let’s get another thing straight: I don’t want to work for someone else, ever again.
After thinking all of this over I decided that maybe instead of focusing on what I can’t blog about, I should blog about the things that I can: weight loss, projects that I’m working on, the way I did my nails this week, etc. I can’t really offer much in the way of journalistic or editorial content because most of my time is spent developing new products for my shop (or as was the case this week, wallowing in a very pathetic depression), so I may as well blog about it.
I don’t know if anyone will read it, but no one can read something that doesn’t exist either.
So for this “first” post back on the blogosphere, I just want to lay out a couple of goals for my blog and for my life that I will be shooting for in the next couple of years:
Blog Goals
- Recipe Wednesday
- Weight loss Progress Updates
- Manicure Monday
- Illustration/Painting/Sketching Updates
- Sewing/Jewelry/Product Updates
- Lots more, and better quality cat pictures ^_-
- Get rid of all of my current supply stock by the end of 2012 (That means constructed and sold!)
- Develop a Business Plan by the end of 2012
- Continue to grow as an illustrator/painter
- Develop a collection for Spring/Summer 2013
