Hello World!

I haven't had much success in blogging.  My arch nemesis, Consistency, has teamed up with my gnat-like Attention Span in a heartbreaking betrayal that prevents me from blogging regularly.... which is kind of necessary to create an engaging space for one's readers.  The intent is to share a window into my life via a beautifully crafted, flawlessly illustrated sequence of prose but ends up an incongruous time-lapse shot of inspiration without substance.  Like a bad gif.

 I shouldn't be surprised.  I was always terrible at journaling, diaries, etc.  I was so inconsistent that I developed an aversion to even writing in these pretty notebooks, because I knew I'd write only 3 entries and find it years later.  I guess I thought that the ease and depth of the digital age would provide endless motivation for continued blogging and eventual success.  As I am working hard to embrace my unique (and apparently diagnosable) attention span, I wanted to create a space in which my particular brand of non-sequitur was not only acceptable but the emphasis of the project.

I do a lot of crafty stuff.  I have been doing crafty stuff for just over 35 trips around the sun, and despite my shifting inspiration and propensity for unfinished projects, I'm finally getting decently good at some of them.  It takes a long time to get enough experience at any particular thing when your focus shifts and you move on to a different project too quickly.  I have boxes of UFOs in all nooks and crannies of my house.  (UFO: unfinished objects)  I stubbornly believe that I will get back to these projects, so they are saved in piles--> inside boxes--> with the tools needed to complete them tucked neatly alongside.  I do recognize that whatever it was which made me apathetic to the completion of any given UFO is likely to continue to prevent my interest in finishing it, regardless of the amount of time which has passed or the impressive layers of dust sediment gathered on top of the box.  In reality, it's extremely annoying because I end up buying duplicate tools as there is no way I can remember to dig in a particular UFO box, to a particular layer of UFO (carbon-dating?) to find said tool.  And Amazon is always one click away....

So, I decided to start-up a blog/craftiness showcase/shameless self-promotion avenue to embrace my random, rather than trying to contort myself into a beautiful pinterest  blogger/entrepreneur/bloggreneur??  After all, I don't fit in one particular box.  I'm kind of occupying several boxes at any given time, all the while realizing I just don't do boxes.  Personality quizzes?  I'm divergent.  My results are always straddling a line, barely tipping to a conclusive category... Myers-Briggs says I'm an INFJ.  Which is, unsurprisingly, a special snowflake.  Comprising about 2% of the population, I've seen wonderful articles describing us as "Extroverted Introverts" which pretty much sums me up perfectly.  I'm Divergent.

things I lie awake thinking about....

TL;DR  I spend the majority of my days trying to fit into the world's boxes... Remembering to pay my bills, show up somewhere at a specific time, don't go up the down-staircase, etc.  My art is my outlet for the other bits of me, which don't fit into nice boxes or follow all of the rules.  This blog is dedicated to my crafts, and to all those who, like me, are neurodiverse and struggling to manage all of their boxes.

*And yes, I realize I didn't exactly set the bar high by starting off my blog telling y'all that I'm anticipating a bumpy ride.  But hey, I believe in full disclosure.