{"id":7181,"date":"2012-06-13T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:28:51","slug":"6th-blogiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/6th-blogiversary\/","title":{"rendered":"6th blogiversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, that’s right, I’ve now been blogging for 6 years! Somehow, that doesn’t seem as surprising to me this year – usually it’s a big ‘wow’ moment when I realise my blogiversary is approaching…<\/p>\n

Year 6 Review<\/h2>\n

This was a year of acceleration (and braking). After the stress of Year 5 (an intercontinental move and extended sickness and injury) I started Year 6 trying to get back up to speed. In fact, I worked so hard I was stressed up to the eyeballs. I took December off from designing to relieve the pressure on myself, and took 2 weeks off from everything except essential daily admin over Christmas. <\/p>\n

This gave me an inkling of the direction I wanted to move towards – producing high quality work and still having some time left to have a life aside from work. But the break also got me fired up and ready to make changes, so I’ve been setting up a lot of new ‘pieces’ to the world of PlanetJune that will make life run more smoothly for me in future. <\/p>\n

\"PlanetJune<\/p>\n

I created a new commissions system, finished my new logo, built and coded a new blog design and menu, launched a page to promote people who sell ready-crocheted PlanetJune designs, built up my FAQ, committed to producing at least one video tutorial per month… <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the result of all these grand plans was that I ended up even busier than I was before Christmas!<\/p>\n

In between all my other PlanetJune work, I managed to design and publish 24 new crochet patterns<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"PlanetJune<\/p>\n

That’s barely more than the 22 I released the previous year, but I’m aiming for quality with my designs, not quantity. I think it’s always worth putting in the extra time to create something special, and that also holds true from a business\/profit standpoint: 1 amazing design can easily bring in more money from long-term sales over the years than 10 mediocre patterns.<\/p>\n

Goal Review<\/h2>\n

My strange situation meant I didn’t set myself any real goals for Year 6:<\/p>\n

\nI need to figure out the logistics of operating from here and how to get myself back on track under such different conditions. […] I need to prioritise getting settled into my new life and getting my health back. Only then can I really focus on making PlanetJune everything I know it could be if I only had the time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While it hasn’t been easy, and I’m still not 100% settled here, I’ve basically met the ‘adjusting’ goals and moved onto expanding and improving PlanetJune and the resources I offer – yay!<\/p>\n

What’s Next?<\/h2>\n

If you’ve read my post from a couple of weeks ago on beating craft business overwhelm<\/a>, you’ll already know the strategies I’m working on implementing to make the ever-growing PlanetJune more sustainable with less work on my part: automating, prioritising, and re-energising.<\/p>\n

I love doing what I’m doing here with PlanetJune; I really do. Even though I’ve worked incredibly hard to reach this point, I know how lucky I am to be in the position to do what I love for a living, and I don’t take that for granted. Yes, I am<\/em> slightly overworked right now because I’m in the midst of building all my new systems, but that won’t last forever and then I’ll have the payoff: being able to concentrate on the work I really enjoy: creating, innovating, and explaining crochet techniques. I can’t wait!<\/p>\n

Thank you for continuing to accompany me on my PlanetJune adventure – now onwards, into Year 7!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, that’s right, I’ve now been blogging for 6 years! Somehow, that doesn’t seem as surprising to me this year – usually it’s a big ‘wow’ moment when I realise my blogiversary is approaching… Year 6 Review This was a year of acceleration (and braking). After the stress of Year 5 (an intercontinental move and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7181","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\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24231,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions\/24231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}