Missing blogger

 I've been absent for a while. Its not been an easy time. I've been struggling hard with fatigue. it occurs with a number of my hidden illneses as a symptom, i try hard to get on despite it but when youre constantly sleeping you cant easily carry on like normal.

Rare Disease awareness Features the Zebra as its mascot because of the docyors quote, when you hear hoofsteps dont think zebra, meaning think of the more common horse before you worry about very rare issues,

This is something that is normal for me but its been a bad flare up of my issues. So forgive me for being away.

Today I have watched Facebook posts and something that comes up lots is confidence, people who craft but are too scared to share their work because they feel like it's not good enough. Art is one of the only areas where this isn't that much of an issue. Art is subjective, what one person loves others hate some love to put a lot into their designs and some do the most amazing simplistic designs. There isn't a right or wrong way to create Art its a personal thing. 

Biggest thing I can say is that you look at your work and see any mistakes, any bits you struggled with, that blemish on the paper where the cat jumped up on the craft table, because you know they happened. We are on different roads some everything comes naturally some work hard but when you look at their cards you don't see all those things that happened why that random butterfly is there or the flowers that cover the darker patch of ink blending that went wrong. We are very judgemental with everything in life but we are hardest on ourselves flaws are nothing to be hidden or ashamed of We all have them. The best of the best out there mess up. You make your own style. And you find your niche in the world. In China when a vase broke they would fix it and make it stand out with gold. Because they say the flaws are what show its beauty so. Make and share, most who say that their work isn't as good are often amazing artists and crafters, just really hard on themselves. I'm autistic and have dyspraxia which affects my co-ordination and I was told as I couldn't draw its an area I wouldn't excel in. Fair enough I've not been on a design team, I'm not a fluent colourist but I have loads of fun with my dies and slowly adding new techniques so share and be damned if people don't like it they can scroll past and if they love it they will tell you straight but don't think your work isn't good enough even the expert was a beginner once.