Sunday, July 17, 2016

Cat Lady Diary: A Weird Rambly Blog Post

Time for another dairy(oops, I'm hungry) diary-style rambling.  It's been awhile.  And honestly, this may end up having nothing at all to do with cat jewelry.  I think I'm going to just list some things because I feel like writing and this is my favorite place to write.  You're welcome or I'm sorry, depending on how annoying you find me tonight.


Lately, here are things that I love: Lego Harry Potter for the Nintendo 3DS, LuLaRoe dresses (I could probably write a whole blog post just about this amazingness, but I digress)...

...Sweet Jesus, I already got distracted by cat videos on the internet and quit typing for a good quarter of an hour.

...apparently I also love cat videos on the internet (still), Saturday morning home improvement radio programs, AM radio in general, prepping visuals and floorplans for Fall seasonal transition at my "day" job, double dates, and attempting to read the entire A Song of Ice and Fire book series.

My husband got a gaming PC, so I'm actually pretty worked up to dabble in that as well.  Throughout the history of my nerdery, the gaming bug never bit me when I was younger.  I would watch people play Grand Theft Auto:  Vice City because I liked the soundtrack, and I enjoyed the occasional Tetris binge, but otherwise I would never call myself a gamer.  Even remotely.  Yet here we are. Credit where it's due, as Matt has successfully managed to teach me the ropes over the years, and I've found that I quite enjoy how hard I have to *think* to get through some of these games!  It doesn't hurt that I've met my fair share of adorable in-game cats, so there is also that.  

Hmmm.

OH!  I've been playing with a couple of different ideas for more video content on this blog.  Some cat lady things, or crafty hauls/DIYs, and maybe even slightly unrelated little sit-down vlogs.  Yes, I have the world's most poo poo webcam and close to no editing skills, but filming as opposed to writing is a cool change of pace now and again.  To my surprise, a handful of you weird cat lady friends have even told me you enjoy the videos I've posted here in the past, so I think I may make some more *very* soon.  For the record, you're weird, but so am I and I will totally oblige with more awkward vlogs.

I'm reaching the tail end of working a long string of days in a row, and can't wait for my day off to literally just shut myself in my craft room and work all day and listen to true crime podcasts and make (hopefully) lots of jewelry.  I've worn some of my newer designs out and about lately, and so far very good.  Positive feedback is keeping me super energized to work on more.  I've been loving the direction that I'm heading creatively, and have been *INLOVE* with my newer designs, but you guys know (you know, because I don't shut up about it on this blog), I sometimes can't get on a good roll, especially lately.  So for things to take a productive turn is definitely progress.  And as always, the more I work and hammer things out, the more ideas I continue to come up with.  I'm getting excited for so many things on the visual end, not just with the new jewelry, but also web design and ideas for market/fair displays.  But more on all of this very soon...

Okay, yeah.  It's past my bedtime.  Thanks for enduring this strange post.  I know I enjoyed the verbal vomit session!  Feel free to have your own by leaving a comment below!

Until next time...

Xo*
Jess

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

...Snail's Pace Wins the Race?

Probably not.




For those of you still alive on the other side of this thing, here is a quick update from me to you...

I've started this blog post at least three times, once with the intention of sharing my (scant) current progress, and twice to just go on a crazy cat lady rant--and I always regret ranting (see: my entire Facebook career), so yeah...

Anyway, enough is enough.  A week or so ago, our lovely aforementioned friend FB notified me that it had been two months since I shared anything on my Lady and the Cat account.  It totally bummed me out.  Being lazy is fun and all, but it kind of starts to drive me batty bananas, and apparently the minions over at Zuckerberg's joint couldn't handle it either.  They had to taunt me about it on my already gross Feed.

Nonetheless, your girl is back.  Meow.

I may or may not have started working on some details for my forever-in-progress//eventual website (still!  I know!).  I've been really digging into the basics of web design...and I suck.  But I'm stubborn as an ox, so I will master it if it kills me to do so!  Also playing around with possible re-branding for my e-Shop//handmade collection??????  Lots of *different* ideas floating around, so......


In other news, I finally addressed the desk-in-shambles situation in my craft room, which means back to business, bum.  I've since found some good podcasts (to listen to my podcast du jour, just click here.) to work along to, and for the first time in what feels like a very long time, I'm having some legit game-changing lightbulb moments, creatively speaking.  These things keep me much more productive long-term!  Dare I say I've gotten my groove back?

So there is that.  


Not complaining at all.  Not one bit :)



I'm so pleased with the direction things are going lately.  If you dig these first few glimpses of things to come, please stay tuned for more!  Pretty positive you won't have to wait months this time, either :)

Xo*
Jess