Productive Day

Yesterday was a totally productive day, I got loads of work done and actually felt good about everything that I did. It wasn’t cleaning though, the house still looked a mess, but I did a huge amount of work on Scrapbookerry, updating the website and the blog and I forgot how much I loved doing it all.

I was getting really fidgety about the blog and the website, and didn’t really like either of them any more. So I thought the best thing as I haven’t actually been updating them due to all the illness and pregnancy stuff recently that now was as good a time as any to get everything sorted so that I liked it again. As I find it really difficult to get motivated if I don’t like what I am looking at, as it makes me feel that no one else likes what they are looking at.

I got some bad points made about my website and they really gave me a massive blow in my confidence of how the site looked and what people were actually getting from it. Since then I have been trying to work out what to do with it, and just couldn’t decide how to tackle it. So I thought I would start with the blog first. I had this idea to have more of a magazine style blog, but unfortunately that was never going to happen, and I went through hundreds of templates and hours of looking before I actually found something that I liked. As bloggers we all know what it is like, nothing is right until you find that one. The one that you didn’t really know you were looking for but when you find it, it is just perfect. I was so happy with the blog by the time I went to bed on Thursday that I knew that Friday I had to change the website as well as it didn’t fit with the blog at all. The blog had a softer look and the website wasn’t as nice at all, I wanted the two items to flow together.

So yesterday I made the decision to do no tidying and concentrate on the website I spent all morning working on one template, until I realised that it didn’t work at all with my site! Always annoying! But I eventually found the template that I wanted and worked for the rest of the day around Baba trying to get it to look right. It is still a work in progress and I still need to sort out the product pages, but it is much better than it was and the home page is finally complete, and I am so happy with it.

When Mr L came home it was the first thing that I showed him as I was so pleased with it, and so excited. He didn’t really share my excitement but he was proud of what I had done and agreed that it looked so much better and seemed to be a lot clearer than it was before. So I was happy. Now that I am happy with how everything looks I feel that I can get back into the making side of things and get working again.

It is amazing how not liking how something looks can completely blind you into doing anything else. It has been really annoying not being able to craft, it has actually driven me mad, but in hindsight maybe it was a good thing. It meant that I stepped away from the business for a while and could see everything with clear eyes and decided that everything needed a little change. It was a change for the better as well not just a mundane change, so that is a good thing. I am so pleased that actually there is a positive that has come out of all that time off rather than it just being a complete and utter negative few months.