Oh hello!

by VioletLeBeaux | Aug 24, 2015 | Notices

Hello! Long time no see huh?

I really didn’t mean to disappear for so long and I appreciate all of the lovely messages checking on me!

My life has changed so much in the last 6 months and I thought it would be a good idea to address everything so everyone knows what’s going on as we all move forward because I miss you guys!

So where have I been? Well I mentioned back at the beginning of the year that I wasn’t going to push myself to make things that my heart wasn’t in and I was only going to be posting when it made me feel happy… so I guess the short answer is that I was waiting for it to make me happy again! 

I started blogging to meet people with similar interests and keep in touch with friends far away and over the years it snowballed into a job and then something that felt like an obligation to people who were relying on me which felt stressful rather than fun like I had intended originally. The blogosphere has changed so much since I started and the longer I continued, the more disconnected and tired I felt.

While I’ve been away, I still took all of the photos and videos like I always did, I just didn’t have the energy to do anything with them so I slowly faded out even on social media.

In the mean time, my life outside of the internet kept moving quickly… so for me it felt like no time at all. I threw myself into my artwork and started selling on Creative Market. I became obsessed with finding the perfect diary/planner and even opened an Etsy store selling stickers.

In terms of crafting I’ve been focusing on knitting and spinning. I have done a little bit of cross stitching but that was really just to make a cute case to hold my knitting needles. I’m still taking photos every day and looking forward to eventually upgrading my camera when a new one comes out and maybe getting a proper macro lens.

By starting from the ground up, I’ve settled into a routine which is making me really happy.

So where do we go from here? 

Well firstly, I won’t be doing any more tutorials for the foreseeable future, sorry!

If you need to get in touch with me for anything, please email me because I don’t always get notifications for comments and they tend to get buried quickly!

If you need customer service for my stores, please contact me via etsy or creative market, it’s the quickest and easiest way to keep track of things. I can’t answer customer service requests via social media sorry!

Blog- I think what’s been holding me back (as silly as it sounds) is having to come up with words… I think I want continue here maybe as a photo journal or similar. I might do a little redesign again as well because I’m tired of looking at my own face when I open it haha! So no promises but we will see how that goes!

Instagram- When I post things day to day it will be here! No promises on timeframes or replying to comments though.

Tutorial Youtube- I’m probably not going to upload anymore videos here. 

Vlogging YouTube- I do want to continue vlogging but it will be sporadic. I’m currently considering doing every day in December this year because it’s a tradition and I’m more energetic in summer.

Pinterest- I will be using Pinterest sporadically.

The VLB- I want to think that eventually I will start putting out the VLB again because I love it but at the moment I don’t have time. 

Other-  My Instagram photos will auto post here but I’m probably not going to check in very much if ever so please don’t expect replies:

• Tumblr
• Google+
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Deviantart

I’m aware of the irony of how long this is considering that the words are what I’ve been having a problem with hahaha! So I guess this post is to check in and say hi and let you know that you’ll be seeing a bit less of me but the parts you do see will be more energised and happy!

Hope you are all really well!