A very complicated plan

Hi.

OK so I have been thoroughly boggled by all the ways Pippin has to communicate. The combo of blogs and Instagram and Facebook and websites and, by association, email and texts and such have wrapped up my brain in confusion and made going to make a cup of tea and do some more designing the less scary option.  I have promised myself in the past that when I go a while without getting a blog post written I wouldn’t come back and apologize profusely because from what I see most of us who post our thoughts go through chatty and quiet times so doesn’t that make it sort of normal? But now with all of the other areas to post and other things to want to show I get more tripped up.  I don’t seem to think like Facebook, don’t find it very intuitive, and I feel like I disappoint them a lot. They’re always posting little things like,”Hey! Why don’t you try this to reach your audience?!” with a bunch of little charts or a bunch of words and I think, “Is that in English?  Is that something I’m supposed to know how to do?”

Or “It’s been a while since you’ve written anything.  Sad face.  Little blue teardrop.”  And I say,”I know, Facebook, I’m a sorry sort. I’ve let you down. Sad face with a little tear.  Heavy sigh.”

And I get tripped up in timing wondering how can I post this when I have gotten that posted yet?  How about some tea.

And I see wonderful stitched Pippin canvases posted by others that make me so happy, I so love seeing them come to life in other’s hands, and I want to repost and show them off but I should ask first right?  OK and how do I do that again? OK where did I see it?  Where should I repost it?  Whew!  My brain hamster gets winded.

I don’t like doing things badly and when I am I tend to freak out a little and back away, far far away,  plus I love designing and have been doing a ton of that and have come up with some really fun canvases I think, so I won’t make it all “Jenn, you suck”.  But I would like to do it all a bit better in showing off some of the great pictures I see of Pippin works in progress and finished canvases, and newly designed canvases.  And I always have thoughts running around in my head that I’d like to write about, both about needlepoint and not,  that would make it onto the blog if only my laptop plugged right into my skull somewhere.  Just one step from thought to posted would be awesome.  I also see such cool day to day things  that I’d like to post but again, how can I do that when I haven’t posted that blog yet, or replied to those emails, or … you get it, right?

And from this introvert it all gets a bit boggling too that as I fumble it it’s pretty much all out there to see.

There’s a highly technical word I like to use for all of this:  Yikes!

So on one of my plane trips late in the summer I started writing up a plan, wrote down all of the things I’d love to show or write about, some to do with needlepoint, some to do with life, and all the places and platforms Pippin has set up to do that, and how to mix them all together.  I wrote a few things down about new designs, and what I did in the summer, and I did get them out of my head and into my laptop , but they got stuck there instead of out on the blog with pictures added.  Closer but still not really the way to go.

And why I get sort of turned around is that Pippin is so not about  feeling bad, or feeling like it’s wrong or not how everyone else does it.  I want Pippin to be about fun.  It’s about playing, quirkiness, loving colours, appreciating funny things in life.

Talking with two crows and asking how there day has been.

Finding a heart on the way to the gym.

A newly orange door.  (Still a coat or two to go.)

A cat who climbs ladders.

Sometimes it’s about something sad or tough that feels better or OK because the sun decided to set in a spectacular way.

I’m happy from a railing of damp sandy towels.

Or a local art festival that loves bright coloured polka dots as much as me!  (And these were after a week of bright sun and a little splatter of rain.  I think if I’d been there opening day when they were at their brightest I might have had to sit down and just stare for a couple of hours.)

So much of what I see and do and love goes into designing, and makes me happy, and I love it when people tell me that the designs make them happy.  I really love that.

Now why am I letting that get muddied up with tech stuff and guilt?

So here’s my plan.  My very complicated plan:

Get over it.  (Speaking to myself here.)

Grinning face emoticon.  High five emoticon.

I’m going to figure it out as I go.  Make mistakes.  Not worry so much.  If I get behind I’ll catch up. I’m keeping those lists I made myself of all the ways Pippin has of saying hi to help me be a bit less boggled and I’m going to post those things I wrote a while ago even though they’re about summer.  (I’d like a little bit of summer right now actually.  The Vancouver rain has found its groove today.) If my photo of a blackberry with a tiny little friend doesn’t get up till February it’s not that I have winter berries growing in my wet Pacific Northwest yard.  I’m just letting it go a little. In a good way.

I’m going to post about the new designs that were released in September.  They’re in stores now or getting there soon.

And when I see a shot of a Pippin design being stitched or finished I’m going to try to get it up so that you can all see it, even if it was posted a while ago. If I miss yours or it’s way after you first put it up it’s not because I don’t like it or anything like that.  I’m just a little on Pippin time.  And I’d love it if you’d join me.  I have black cats, polka dots, and sandy beach towels.

(PS Because I was having a hard time getting this started Scout, who is missing her girl away at university and needing extra cuddles, came and helped me.  We admire each other so.). 🙂