{"id":1509,"date":"2009-06-15T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:34:02","slug":"happy-birthday-planetjune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-planetjune\/","title":{"rendered":"happy birthday PlanetJune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of last week’s Folding Trees blogiversary, it’s now my own blogiversary (it was a total coincidence that both launched at the same time, 2 years apart).<\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe another year has gone by so quickly! It’s now three years since I started the PlanetJune blog! Three years ago, I had never designed a crochet pattern; I thought that starting a craft blog was probably a silly idea and that nobody would ever read it – I really just started it as a record for myself of what I was making, and to push myself to keep creating things. I never dreamed it would evolve into the PlanetJune empire of today \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Year in Review<\/h2>\n

Okay, let’s see the breakdown this year:<\/p>\n

\"PlanetJune<\/a><\/p>\n

Patterns:<\/strong> 17 new crochet patterns in the PlanetJune store<\/a>, plus 4 new free (donationware) patterns<\/a><\/p>\n

Eyes:<\/strong> Added a line of animal (safety) eyes<\/a> to the shop<\/p>\n

Tutorials:<\/strong> New tutorials on Crochet Basics<\/a>, Sizing Up (and Down)<\/a> and the wonderful Invisible Decrease<\/a><\/p>\n

Folding Trees:<\/strong> Started up Folding Trees<\/a> with my lovely friend Eve<\/p>\n

Book:<\/strong> Wrote a papercraft book, Paper Chains & Garlands<\/em> (which should be out late summer or early autumn)<\/p>\n

And of course, the biggie this year was making the decision at Christmas time to try self-employment and see what happens…<\/p>\n

What’s Next?<\/h2>\n

I have about a million ideas for what to do in the coming year, ranging from small projects (e.g. redesign the website a bit – I think it could be a bit more user-friendly) to more ambitious ideas (e.g. my huge in-progress secret project – c’mon, you didn’t really think I’d leak my idea until it’s ready to go, did you?!). <\/p>\n

I think my biggest challenge is going to be prioritizing and deciding which ideas to pursue and which to put on the “maybe, one day…” list. If I’m running this as a real business, I need to try to make good business decisions and balance the risks against the potential opportunities. It’s all a bit scary because of the financial side of things – much as I’d like to do whatever I want to do, creatively, I’m going to have to try to make choices that will help to support me financially.<\/p>\n

Hey, where’s the contest?!<\/h2>\n

I do have a contest planned, but the prizes aren’t ready yet, so I’m going to hold off until they are. Watch this space…<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/h2>\n

I am so, so grateful to all the wonderful people who I’ve met on this journey so far… To everyone who reads my blog, who leaves a comment, e-mails me, or follows me on Twitter<\/a>, thank you for your encouragement in this crazy adventure! And of course to everyone who has helped to support me by buying my patterns or sending me donations, I am more grateful than I can say.<\/p>\n

Here’s to year 4!
\nJune xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of last week’s Folding Trees blogiversary, it’s now my own blogiversary (it was a total coincidence that both launched at the same time, 2 years apart). It’s hard to believe another year has gone by so quickly! It’s now three years since I started the PlanetJune blog! Three years ago, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25126,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/25126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}