And by a while, like almost 3 years since I've updated this blog. Oops! I've been weekly over on YouTube almost the entire time though, so I get some credit right?💀

I promise it wasn't the intention to not blog, I had too much on my plate to blog. Totally different right? 😅

One of my many Garfields

That leads us into part of why I'm making this blog post. I'm no longer going to be weekly on YouTube.

It's going to be biweekly now🎉

Over the time I've posted on the internet, I've had issues keeping up with my personal demands. I have a mentally draining job and busy life that doesn't get posted, but I've always put YouTube as a priority that rarely gets missed each week. So much so that my mental health was on a back burner. No rest for the wicked, rain or shine, feelings or sick or not.

With more time between videos, I can add in extras! Like hand drawn animations.

The making myself post a full (long form) YouTube video every week meant that I've put out videos that I'm not the most happy with. I wanted to do more, but the deadline is tight when you have other things going on. Or the feeling that I rushed a project because the video for it needed to be done. Especially when compared to 30 hours of crafting footage or a vlog that's going to get cut down to 20 minutes max.

Not saying I am unhappy with my channel or any video in particular! I am very happy with everything I have put out on a whole. Not to mention all my videos are me doing things I love to do! But it's the feeling of obligation to myself. That I am a failure if I don't do the thing that I set out to do.

Fabric painting for my Pokemon Trainer Cosplay

By putting YouTube on the top, the blog was the first thing to go, then instagram posts too. I hope to get back to both though. Preferably like a seamless update between all three.

The plan in a perfect world is that I can give updates here (and on instagram) for projects I'm working on, then my Youtube will have the full videos posted every other week of the projects.

I kinda realize that might still be setting myself up for more feelings of personal failure if I can't make that work. So just bear with me if this blog goes silent again.

Also, YouTube has a community section that's kinda like a blog. So do I post the same thing here and on that?? Or just like redirect that to maybe here? Short updates there, longer here??