14/01/2025
Hello! 👋🏼
It’s taking all my strength to hop back on here, to try continue some kind of regular posting. Anyone else feeling that? 🫠
I must say I was more than happy to see the back of 2024, though the thought of a new year hasn’t magically filled me with hope and anticipation either. Without over-sharing (actually that’s exactly what I’m doing), it’s been (and is) one of the hardest times of my life both personally and within my business. 🥀
I find it tricky sometimes with ‘marketing’…I have such a deep, deep value for authenticity that it feels wrong to share anything other than exactly the truth of how things are. But we’re told in the marketing/business space to ‘fake it til you make it’, portraying a thriving, busy calendar, making people believe they’ll miss out if they don’t book/buy NOW! ⚡️
I can’t seem to bring myself to do that, but it is probably equally unwise to lay everything out there while wanting to build trust with potential clients. 🤔
Sooo, what to do. While disappearing altogether seems like the most attractive option, I think I’ll just stick around as long as the door remains even a small crack open for me in the industry, and focus on building trust with my clients when they come to me. Because I know when they do and we work together, I can still create beautiful things for them, as much as ever. 🌸
It’s a crazy hard economy right now, let’s be real. I feel for all the small businesses trying to stay afloat, or those having to close their doors after years of pouring everything they had into their dream. I feel too for those trying to plan a wedding while just affording to live and pay the bills right now is so tough. 😣
I think I’m at a pivotal point, and feel at least hopeful and curious that if I close the doors it’ll be to step into something else, something good, something weaving together my delight, my skills and experience, and a space of need in the world. Even if I’m stacking supermarket shelves in the meantime. 🙃
Anyway. Here I am, still delighted as ever by the wild and whimsical, still grateful for every opportunity to connect with and create beauty for beautiful people. 💛
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