{"id":23664,"date":"2024-07-16T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=23664"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:06:36","slug":"a-return-to-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/a-return-to-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"a return to blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, I&#8217;ve fallen out of the blogging habit. After my seclusion while writing <a href=\"\/amibook\">The Essential Guide to Amigurumi<\/a>, I found it difficult to get back into the comfortable swing of sharing things online.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been putting way too much pressure on myself to make things perfect, and trying to figure out what it means to be &#8216;professional&#8217; without losing myself and what&#8217;s important to me. Posting online used to be easy, but then my anxious brain got in the way with thoughts that I may be old and irrelevant in today&#8217;s fast-paced and noisy social media landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered: <strong>blogging<\/strong> is the way I always enjoyed sharing &#8211; it&#8217;s slower, more thoughtful, higher quality and longer-lasting than social media. And I don&#8217;t (and won&#8217;t ever) have ads on my site, so visiting my blog can be a calming respite from the visual assault of endless ads and auto-playing videos &#8211; for me as well as you.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to try to relax and start posting here more frequently again, sharing my creative pursuits and what I&#8217;m enjoying. That&#8217;s mostly crochet and other crafts, with an occasional post about wildlife and nature, growing food in my garden, cooking\/baking, and whatever else I find interesting! <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be consistent &#8211; as always with me, I&#8217;ll only publish things when they&#8217;re ready. But I can tell you that I hope to have somewhere between <em>a couple<\/em> and <em>a few<\/em> posts per month, depending on my energy and other commitments.<\/p>\n<p>I have lots of projects to catch you up on, so I hope you&#8217;ll join me in the coming months for my crochet content, explorations of different crafts, garden experiments, and behind-the-scenes posts about what it actually takes to write and publish a craft book like EGA!<\/p>\n<h2>Choose Your Options<\/h2>\n<p>You can hear from me and engage as much or as little as you like. Here are the ways you can stay connected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>All the Blog Posts<\/strong>: If this sounds good, please <a href=\"\/blog\/subscribe\">subscribe to the blog<\/a> now, and all my posts will be sent directly to your inbox in future so you&#8217;ll never miss another post!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just the Crochet (Newsletter): <\/strong> If you&#8217;re only here for my crochet content, please <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> subscribe to this blog. <a href=\"\/news\">My monthly(ish) newsletter<\/a> includes all my crochet-related news for the month including any relevant blog posts, so you&#8217;ll never miss out on any new patterns, tutorials or tips I have for you, without the other topics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Join In:<\/strong> If you&#8217;d like to share about <em>your<\/em> crafting, reading, cooking, gardening, pets, and life with other positive, friendly, crafty people, I highly recommend you join us in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/discord\">PlanetJune Discord server<\/a>! It&#8217;s our private ad-free space for text chatting and sharing pics. I find it&#8217;s a beautiful antidote to the noise of what social media has become, and our small group gives you a chance to make real connections and friendships with other like-minded souls. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/june_2024.jpg\" alt=\"June relaxing outside\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, <strong>hello again<\/strong>, and welcome if you&#8217;re new here! I&#8217;m really looking forward to sharing more of myself with you again. I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy my upcoming posts, and please do comment from time to time if you do &#8211; knowing you&#8217;re out there will be really encouraging as I try to get back into the swing of blogging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, I&#8217;ve fallen out of the blogging habit. 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