All This Media Stuff

How frustrating is all this media stuff!  Getting your head around it and trying to get the different parts to work is a nightmare.  Now I am certainly not dim (ha ha, don’t listen to what anyone else says about me!) but if I am struggling with some of it then I think a lot of people would just give up at a certain point and stick with what they have been able to achieve so far.  It takes so long and yet I really do it just to help sell my pendants. 

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I start doing one thing and then either get distracted or have no choice but to go off in a different direction to sort something else out or find another piece of vital information  – yes I know what you are thinking, but I don’t mean I get waylaid with anything other than work related things either, although I have been known to add the odd comment to a post I have seen on FB or Google+.   But they do say that is good to get involved with other posts so that’s my excuseJ 

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The trouble is I spend hours on the computer and have hardly any time enjoying my craft work.  I had expected it to perhaps be 50/50 with the time I spent working part time (half making and half selling), and yes I did expect it to be only part time!, but I seem to not only be spending 100% of my time setting things up for the selling but also I find I am working all hours of the day with only a couple of social hours break a day.  When my partner and I ran the Entertainments Booking Agency I was doing less hours than this because I made sure that I at least stopped working in time to go linedancing 3 times a week.  I also used to fit in Pilates, Yoga, Tai Chi and a spiritual Development Group as well as going out to see acts performing.   One of the reasons I gave up the Agency was for health reasons and to take it slower without all the pressure.  I may not have the pressure now but my hobby that I decided to develop has taken over my whole life.  Due to an achilles tendonitis problem all the social activity has been on hold and now it seems I spend 12 hours a day sitting on my ever-growing backside at the computer.

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I keep telling myself that when I get it all sorted and belong to all the networking and bookmarking sites with them all running smoothly then I will have time to relax more and also have time to make some more pendants.  It is such a good thing that I had hundreds of them made before I started selling them – well I suppose if I hadn’t got so many made up then I probably wouldn’t have felt such a need to sell them.  It is meant to be a paid hobby and not a full time job which is why I keep the prices low.  I think I would have starved by now (but been thinner) if I had been forced to live off my Pendant-Heaven earnings.  Ebay eats too much of any potential profit and private sales on ArtFire or direct would only keep me in coffee if I was lucky.  I keep telling myself that when it is all running smoothly and the pendants start selling on ArtFire then I will have time to myself again and I can tell ebay and their relisting costs where to go but until then I can’t run them down as at lease they are keeping me in coffee J  Well chocolate preferably J

And todays little wonderful snippet of information:

This year we're going to experience four unusual dates.

1/1/11,   1/11/11,   11/1/11,   11/11/11 and that's not all...

Take the last two digits of the year in which you were born -

now add the age you will be this year -

The results will be 111 for everyone in whole world.