I'm back!

I’ve decided to resurrect my blog. 

Many of you may know that I began a Patreon page at the beginning of the year.  With Patreon, people sign up to be supporters and pay small amounts on a monthly basis in return for rewards.  For instance, for $3 a patron would get a printable coloring sheet every month, and for $12 I would mail you three greeting cards each month (as well as a coloring sheet).

My Patreon page has had slow growth since it started in January.  And by slow growth I mean no growth from the original 4 wonderful, lovely people who signed up (one of whom was my husband whom I told to sign up so I can see what it looked like from a patron's point of view).  

So, I’ve decided to call it quits.  It was an experiment.  Calling it an experiment makes me feel better for ending it.

I did like having the spot (my Patreon page) to write more extensive updates and share even more process videos/pictures than on my Instagram and Facebook.  That got me thinking that I might like to resurrect this blog.  

Death brings new life.

Blogging in some form or fashion has been apart of my life back since i had a Xanga in 2005.  Oh, actually before that I had an anonymous “online diary” even in middle school/high school... That’s before I even knew the word "blog"! Crazy. It was on diaryland.com (which is still around, I just found out!).

So yeah, I think this space on my website could be nice.  Now that I’m not the in throws of first-year-motherhood (second year is still hard, but my head is above water at least) perhaps I’ll even update it consistently. My goal will be once a week, but we shall see...

I considered not even sharing that I failed at Patreon.  It’s not very professional to go around pointing out how I tried something that didn’t work.  But then I decided that for that reason, I should share it.  

This blog is not a marketing tool (i started thinking of it in that way in the past which is why I think I lost interest.)  This is a space for me to share the thoughts/processes regarding my art-making and anything else that feels pertinent at the time.  I will have zero expectations regarding comments/likes/traffic.  

Join me if you like -- you can subscribe to get updates over there on the side bar (or perhaps on the bottom of the page if you're using a phone?).  Or don't join me.  Whatevs.

(I've posted this below quote a handful of times in the past, but it's helpful for me to see it again)