Chasing perfection, or making excuses? (I’m back!)
It has been very quiet around here…
I moved house! I moved across the country late last year and into my house by the sea in December. I’m lucky enough that my house has a lovely sunny extension space that would be a wonderful craft room (once it has been patched up a bit – but that’s a story for another day).
It has been roughly 6 months since I last posted on my social media pages – terrible I know. I got caught up in the sorting out of all the seemingly endless boxes, and of course the craft room inevitably ended up being the last one to be unpacked – it’s still not there yet – but I’ve started to make good progress with it…Excuses, excuses…
Which leads me onto the title of this post – chasing perfection or making excuses? It’s very easy to say ‘I’ll go back to crafting when everything’s unpacked’, ‘Once I have a perfect craft space, I’ll be back in the swing of things’, ‘I’ll find my rhythm again once everything is organised’ and so on…I have convinced myself that my ‘comeback’ post on Instagram needs to be absolute perfection after being away for so long – especially to take advantage of the ‘The Fuzzy Bee posted for the first time in a while!’ notification that will go out to my followers…
So I kept (well…keep, I’m not there yet) putting it off. I’ve been feeling the inspiration striking and I’m trying to dispel the idea that I need everything to be absolutely perfect before I can return to the world of social media.
I am figuring a lot of things out at the moment, not least attempting to semi-return to the world of employment (after being lucky enough to be in a position where I could be self-employed for several years), when all I want to do is create and run my own successful business and work for myself as a crochet designer. That’s not an easy thing to do, especially in today’s economic climate (more excuses?), and I’m well aware that the biggest thing holding me back is myself at this point…
I’m happy to say that despite my craft space not being ready, I am getting back into the creative flow and I’m currently working on designing a new crochet pattern, and it may just be one of my most favourite designs yet – although of course, I feel that way about each new design I come up with!
I can’t wait to share her with the world and release the pattern…if only I can get over the quest for perfection in the meantime…
Seemingly, my lack of posting on Instagram hasn’t stopped a slow follower growth, for which I am immensely grateful, and The Fuzzy Bee has now reached over 1000 followers – I always planned to run a giveaway once I hit 1000, so perhaps that will be on the cards when I do eventually return to social media!
At time of writing this blog post, my website view counter is sitting at 99,778 – so incredibly close to 100,000 and slightly blowing my mind that this little blog has been seen that many times!
To all those who are still following through this hiatus, thank you – I promise I will come back soon with exciting new content!! 
In the mean time, you can find my patterns over in my Etsy store!
What do you think? Is it more important to chase perfection no matter how long it takes, or is it all making excuses? Is it better to be ‘real’, even if it’s not the perfect post, or image, or update?
