Yes, I know YOU are there, I have been reading your blogs, LOL. It’s ME that’s been missing, and I have finally figured out why.
This looks really long, but I swear I will get to the point as quickly as possible.
I have really been giving myself a hard time about neglecting the blog – I can beat myself up like nobody’s business! I spent so much time designing it, then losing that design and then making a new one. I made new friendships and met so many awesome people.
I started this blog when I was in the process of decorating just about everything in my house. And then I ran out of things to paint. Then times got tough at work, money got tight, teenagers graduated, and I couldn’t think of a useful, or even happy thing to say.
I was semi-depressed in life, and deeply depressed in blog writing. I even contemplated deleting the blog because I was so embarrassed that I had let it go for so long. Then I got out of my slump, and realized that I needed to quit whining and get back to it.
Now, here’s the catch. I have also realized that I am a bit of an OCD personality, if that is a proper way to describe my trait of sticking to one thing for a while and then dropping it like a hot potato. It is my most annoying habit – especially for myself.
Which means - I have a list of people that have me on their blog rolls for general home crafting and painting posts. While I am still horribly interested in that topic, and reading your blogs about it, I have just pretty much run out of things to paint, and there have nothing cool to show, or talk about.
This thought brought me to the thought that I named this blog “Wacky Whimsy” and I lost that concept in trying to write things that would be interesting to an audience of crafty people, which ultimately led me to let the blog dry up. Now, I realize I was being silly. It’s a blog, not a National Magazine. I’m doing this for fun, and I’m going to get back to that.
So. Wacky. Whimsy. Kinda like me, things I’m interested in at the time (which, as we know may only last a week, haha) and just a way to keep in touch with you guys. I realize I will loose a lot of readers, since I might not touch on something they are interested in at the time, (like right now I’m all about nail polish!) but if you decide to hang in there, I’m sure my subject matter will change a lot.
It’s gonna be Wacky Whimsy – the blog of a 40 year old Texas girl with two teen agers, a Halloween obsession (That never seems to go away, OCD or not!) and a love of all things colorful, wacky and weird.
I’m learning I might not have to be perfect, and my blog doesn’t have to either. Thanks for hanging in there with me, I appreciate y’all heaps.
7 comments:
still here, still love ya dawny mcdawnerson! :)
gail
If it's not fun, you shouldn't do it! Because you're right, it would come through, and I don't read your blog just to see what you're painting. I read it because I like your personality--and because you love Hallowe'en, too.
Sounds good! Post away!!!!
I appreciate you decided to continue blogging and forget about the OCD and all that. PLEASE keep on writing because we want to read the real thought and not a national magazine!
- Herman swan
Can I copy and paste your post onto my blog?! You said exactly what I have been thinking.
Your at it again my good twin.
Kim
Yaaaaaayyyyyyyy, you're alive!!!!!
I understand what you are saying about life getting crazy and interests changing. Who would want to read the same thing over and over again anyway? We are all evolving. I think that it is all kind of cyclical. I'm interested in house for awhile, then exercise, then shoes, then paint projects, then I think I'm going to become a photographer ( still waiting for that to happen) Then I think I will write a blog on fun fashion ideas for a certain demographic like mine. I am so tired of women in that 45 and up thinking they either should strive to pass themselves off as 30 or giving up and going with the tent and awning crop pants and embroidered sweatshirts that have hearts or high heels on them. SPARE me. Then after all that I'm just back to house again and I write a decor post. ??? whatever.
Anyway, I sometimes wonder why I have any followers at all. If they read a post on decor and think that is what I am all about they will be sorely disappointed. It might be weeks before I write about that again. Instead they will have to read about my latest snack obsession, shoe purchase, or organizational find. Sometimes I bore myself. Oh well. It's not like I'm getting paid to do this. :D
So glad to hear you are coming back around but if you ever feel a bit down. Put it out there. Your readers, myself included would like to know. We will do our best to entertain you with our lame humor or just listen and sympathise. Life can be a lot to handle sometimes. Nobody gets through it unscathed or alone. We're all dealing with similar struggles. We just don't all deal with them at the same time. I'm just glad to know you are hanging in there and I don't give a rat's a** what you write about. I love it all.
I WOULD love it though if you would put a subscribe by email button on your blog or did I miss it?
I have been a huge fail when it comes to reading blogs on reader. I just don't seem to have time for all of them so I un-subscribed from a bunch of them and I am trying to get my faves in email that way I am sure to see them.
Keep the faith, you're doing fine.
Hugs,
pam
Awwww, Dawn, I seriously think we might be cut from the same bolt of fabric. First polish, and now I find your creative blog?? The blog that you are beating yourself up over for not maintaining?? Lol. Seriously girl, kindred spirits. My "other" blog is my creative blog that no one but a few friends read. I'm okay with that too. I started writing it to help me get out of a creative slump. It's done the trick, even thought I don't blog there with any regularity. But I had aspirations of being, oh, I don't know, The Pioneer Woman meets Martha Stuart? Lol. Instead I started a nail blog. How crazy is that?? I'm still the Pioneer Woman and Martha Stuart, even if it's only in my head! :)
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