So I've been playing at this making and selling lark for about 10 years....just making enough to keep me in new craft supplies. But my health seems to be getting worse as each year goes on, and I'd like to improve the quality of my free time by reducing my time at work, for this to happen I need to make this crafting business work a little bit better and work more seriously towards it. I'm also really fed up a lot of the time and I'm used to being much more of a positive and bouncy person, so I'm hoping being more pro-active about things in life will help me overcome the difficulties I'm finding in life.
I have Elhers-Danlos Syndrome and CFS/ME. I don't like to moan about either and I hate the fact that I have to spend so much of my life balancing the two stupid conditions/diseases whatever you like to call them ! But I've had to deal with the fact that my joints are becoming more problematic as I get older and coming to terms with this is getting harder. I'm also finding it hard to deal with my relapses that I keep having because of my CFS/ME and this is making me so angry and frustrated. I feel that I'm a burden, I hate having to rely on friends and family and I feel like a fraud a lot of the time because they can't see my exhaustion or the daily pain, even though inside I know I'm at my limits, I have no way of showing this to people. Crafting keeps me occupied when I'm at my poorliness and gives me a break from it. It's relaxing and therapeutic.
So in order to try and get this off the ground a little more, I've set up a blog and twitter accounts, applied for a shed load of craft fairs, set up an Alternative Artists network on facebook and updated my folksy page......
And now i think i might sleep..........or drown myself in lucozade......:)
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