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Does your content creation come in waves? ✏️🌊⁣ ⁣ I don’t know if I can blame it on my brain being too full (*all* the time), but sometimes I can be on a roll with writing, churning out thousands of words at the drop of a hat, and other times I’m all about the painting and can’t wait to get home and sit in my studio with a paintbrush in hand.⁣ ⁣ I think I’m in the middle of everything at the moment - the to do list is growing and there’s all sorts of jobs on there - writing blogposts, newsletters, packaging stock, designing new products and editing photos… it’s never ending! 😬⁣ ⁣ I’m not sure where to start or what to focus on, so I’ve colour coded and now I just need to set aside a few hours to tackle it… finding those hours is the problem!⁣ ⁣ (This photo was taken in the Summer, and earlier that day I’d walked some alpacas… swipe to see how flipping great it was! 😄) #blog
🥳 The blog is back! And my first post after my hiatus is sharing ALL the ins and outs of how to create a travel sketchbook. ⁣ ⁣ It’s a big beginners guide covering things like what to take, when to draw, how to make it manageable and tips and tricks I’ve learnt while creating mine.⁣ ⁣ I know it can be daunting, but it’s honestly the best thing I started and I’m so proud of my little sketchbook! ⁣ ⁣ I’d love to know where’s the best place you’ve been that would have the best drawing spots? Barcelona filled my sketchbook with the most intricate drawings so far, but I’d love to visit San Fran and fill my pages with lots of houses, hills, trams and the golden gate bridge of course!⁣ ⁣ Comment below, and click the link in my bio to read the full post 😊 #blog
📒✏️ Sketches from Barcelona 🇪🇸💖⁣ ⁣ The problem with this beautiful city is there’s just too much I want to draw! Still working my way through my travel sketchbook, but I love looking back through all my trips so far this year. ⁣ ⁣ I’ll be posting a big beginners guide all about travel sketchbooking next week when my blog relaunches on Monday 7th October 🥳🎉 #blog
If you have a lot of sideline projects, how do you decide what to spend your time on, when time is so precious?⁣ ⁣ I have a lot of hobbies. I don’t know how to prioritise my time to do them all!⁣ ⁣ I feel like I haven’t picked up a paintbrush for weeks. It’s been months since I scrapbooked properly and I haven’t sewn anything for years.⁣ ⁣ Anyway, if you have any tips I’d love to hear them! For now though, I’m going to ditch my to do list and do some scrapbooking. I need something good for my soul tonight 💖✨ #blog
✨ When there’s so much advice, how do you know who to listen to? ☎️⁣ ⁣ There’s a lot of talk when building your online brand about consistency. And let’s face it, I’m pants at that. I’ve actually tried to be on top of it and I do have some posts ready to go in my photo and caption ‘bank’. ⁣ ⁣ But when I know I should be posting, I just don’t want to. It feels so forced and unnatural. I wanted to post at least two times a week, because that’s what I feel like I should be doing (actually, it should be more but I wanted it to be achievable for me). There’s a lot of guilt running my business because I feel like I’m not doing half as much as I should.⁣ ⁣ Yesterday I listened to the Make a plan Make it happen podcast by @josephinepbrooks, with the brilliant Leona from @indie_roller, who talked about our overwhelming expectations on ourselves and playing by our own rules. Leona said that it’s OK to not show up on a consistent basis - people are NOT going to forget about you. Plenty of other podcasts, experts, coaches and blogs tell me the opposite.⁣ ⁣ The point is, it’s really hard to know what to do or who to listen to when there’s so much advice out there. I suppose it’s just a case of going with our gut, and if it doesn’t feel right, then don’t push it. ⁣ ⁣ If you want to post five times a week, go for it! I admire that so much. If you don’t feel like posting and it turns into a once a month thing, that’s cool too. I don’t think we should force it just because we ‘should’ - as small biz owners, we already put a lot of extra pressure on ourselves as it is.⁣ ⁣ So, here is a photo of the red barn print available in my shop, with an honest caption that I felt like sharing. #blog
First of all, how are we a week into September?! Second of all, gjkjgajkdsjfbsj I have A LOT on my to do list. The run up to Christmas is always the busiest time of year for a small business, and it’s SO easy to get overwhelmed.⁣ ⁣ We need to have our Christmas designs sorted (oop, not even started). Content written and planned. Mailing lists and social media and product promotion and blogposts and scheduling and… well, there’s just not enough time in the day.⁣ ⁣ There are so many online training courses, newsletter sign ups and e-books promising results and giving advice to tell us to WORK HARDER. The truth is, we need to work smarter. ⁣ ⁣ I ALWAYS get into the cycle of burnout. I work too hard for too long and then I have weeks or months of feeling burnt out and subsequently feeling SO guilty.⁣ ⁣ I’ve changed a lot of things this year, and one of those still ongoing is putting too much pressure on myself. We all do it, don’t we? What if we just cut ourselves some slack?!⁣ ⁣ So here’s my reminder, and if you need it, your permission. You are only human! Don’t burn yourself out. Do what you want to do, and look after yourself in the process. You can’t pour from an empty cup, after all 🌺☕ #blog
😖❌ Decision making is the worst 🙅‍♀️⁣ ⁣ Please tell me I’m not the only one 🙈 With big decisions, I’m paralysed by the idea I might get it ‘wrong’. I’ve always hated it, and always stressed and worried and over thought every single one. ⁣ ⁣ Something I’m learning and teaching myself is that there is no such thing as a wrong decision. By thinking this way, I’m taking some of the pressure off and hoping I’ll get more confident in making them. ⁣ ⁣ The world will adapt and change and alter depending on your choice - whether ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. Really, we can’t actually make bad decisions. They may not pan out like we hoped, but that means we can learn from them instead. If it’s a lesson, how can that be wrong? ⁣ ⁣ Every options holds a promise. And, as Baz Lurhmann said: Your choices are half chance, and so are everybody else’s.