I think it is time to stop. It has been a good few years of posting and with my past health issues and now my husband is not well, I think it is time to call it quits.
It seems that there is an abundance of craft and home lifestyle blogs available and I am just one more. I am not complaining. Either you have it or you don't and apparently I don't. I don't need to post to keep in touch with far flung friends and family. A part of my would like to keep posting but there's no point if no one is interested.
It is hard to judge peoples' reaction to my blog and obviously I can't be objective. Statistics don't tell me much more than how many visitors and what country they are from. Rarely does anyone show enough interest to comment other than one or two close friends whom I see regularly anyway.
Don't fret though. I still have my RV travel blog and I will be keeping that blog going as long as we keep on traveling around this great country of ours. It will include some recipes and maybe those crafts that I do on the road.
If I have judge incorrectly and there are a silent audience that like what I see then please let me know in the comments at least this one time and I may yet revise my decision to stop posting here.
So here is my thank you card for any of you that are still with me. It has been a great learning curve and sometimes I have been challenged to do things I would not have done otherwise. (PS The card style is called an Easel Card. You can watch and learn with how to make your own easel card with this YouTube tutorial that explains it quite easily.)
Pop over and see me anytime on the Robbiebago Blog
POST SCRIPT: It is now a few months later and what a difference this has made. I feel rejuvenated and I am encouraged by the improvement in my husband's health. He will never be 100% but he is leaps and bounds ahead of what last year seemed to indicate. This has reflected in my outlook and my own health is stable with no cancer noticeable in my regular 3 monthly check ups. Eventually I should be able to cut it down to once or twice a year if there is still no changes. So all in all life is good and God is in charge and I just have to hand everything over to him, the negatives as well as the positives.
It seems that there is an abundance of craft and home lifestyle blogs available and I am just one more. I am not complaining. Either you have it or you don't and apparently I don't. I don't need to post to keep in touch with far flung friends and family. A part of my would like to keep posting but there's no point if no one is interested.
It is hard to judge peoples' reaction to my blog and obviously I can't be objective. Statistics don't tell me much more than how many visitors and what country they are from. Rarely does anyone show enough interest to comment other than one or two close friends whom I see regularly anyway.
Don't fret though. I still have my RV travel blog and I will be keeping that blog going as long as we keep on traveling around this great country of ours. It will include some recipes and maybe those crafts that I do on the road.
If I have judge incorrectly and there are a silent audience that like what I see then please let me know in the comments at least this one time and I may yet revise my decision to stop posting here.
So here is my thank you card for any of you that are still with me. It has been a great learning curve and sometimes I have been challenged to do things I would not have done otherwise. (PS The card style is called an Easel Card. You can watch and learn with how to make your own easel card with this YouTube tutorial that explains it quite easily.)
Pop over and see me anytime on the Robbiebago Blog
POST SCRIPT: It is now a few months later and what a difference this has made. I feel rejuvenated and I am encouraged by the improvement in my husband's health. He will never be 100% but he is leaps and bounds ahead of what last year seemed to indicate. This has reflected in my outlook and my own health is stable with no cancer noticeable in my regular 3 monthly check ups. Eventually I should be able to cut it down to once or twice a year if there is still no changes. So all in all life is good and God is in charge and I just have to hand everything over to him, the negatives as well as the positives.
This is a lovely card. I am sorry you are saying goodbye to on this blog. I hope you change your mind and keep going.
ReplyDeleteI hope yours and your husband's health improve. I make cards and blog to keep my mind off the pain. I am following your blog and always look at your cards on my dashboard but don't always go in to leave a comment as I have eye problems and can't stay too long on the computer. Best wishes for whatever you decide.
Thank you for your comments. I know there are visitors that look and don't comment. I myself, do a lot of this, but I do leave comments from time to time on most that I visit. If there are more of lovely people like you that are interested, then I may keep it going, if I know that they are keen for me to do so. I just didn't want to waste my time if no one noticed.
DeleteI am another looker, will miss popping in for a look!
ReplyDeleteThank you Silver for commenting that you will miss popping by from time to time.
DeleteIt is a lot of work and much of it can be thankless, but you would be surprised at how many people do actually read your blogs. Don't give up, we love your style and though you may become infrequent, you are unique and so is your blog. Please, please keep it going.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jenny for your encouragement. You certainly make me feel I shouldn't give up totally.
DeleteThank you so much popping past and making some comments of encouragement. Though I can be quite prolific in my craft output when I am well, and certainly I cook most days, I am not convinced that I am unique. I rarely come up with original work or recipes, as I tend to tweak stuff that I see elsewhere whether it be online, at the markets or in shops, that inspires me and in execution of 'copying' I tend to put my own spin on things as many craft people do. When I was teaching it was necessary to make tutorials and take the many photos needed and thus easy to adapt these for the internet. The motivation to spend the time writing up tutorials along with taking photographs has declined since I didn't get the feedback from my readers. Maybe if I just make this blog more a photo diary of my completed crafts then maybe I can continue to pop these on. For example I have made more than a dozen sock dolls in the last month or so and I certainly have been busy making Christmas cards and decorations ready for the upcoming season.
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