February | 2024 | Sun Shiny and Stuff!

“A pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process”. A break… for a specific reason, or for an unknown reason. Sometimes there is no “why” in a hiatus, an unknown “when” of return. That was the word that came to mind as I am “thinking” about re-starting my journey. My hiatus was not intentional. It was… a bit of a sudden loss of interest that caused this “gap” or “pause”. Not so much a loss of interest in my hobby/start up jewelry business, but a loss of interest in the way it was going. Wait.. wait.. let me back up… my blog is “Sun Shiny and Stuff”, but this is sounding anything but….Sun Shiny…

Right?! Ok so I promise it’ll get there. When interest turns into focusing on sales, and money, and “is this hobby/business taking off”, then it can impact the joy that can be had from simply enjoying what you love! No, I didn’t realize it at first, but slowly, I started losing interest, loss of interest turned into loss of “free time” to devote to my hobby, turned into days and days to weeks, weeks to…well you get the idea.

So, this leads me to this moment in time… Every now and again, without even trying, I’d get that surprise notification – “You just made a sale!” I would be so happy and surprised to see that somehow someone was finding my little Etsy shop, like a needle in the proverbial haystack. Wow! I still have product that someone is looking to buy. However, I would prepare my order, box it up, take a pic and ship it on it’s way to its’ new home! That would be it, until the next surprise notification.

However, this time….. this time was different…this time got me thinking – maybe I should give it another go, jump back into my love, my small little hobby and see where it takes me. Sometimes, life can take us in different directions, so far from where we were that, when our foot is planted at the farthest end, we look back in the distance and say… how did I even get here? That’s where I am at this moment. My notification came on Sunday, as always, out of the blue – “you made a sale!”. Hmm…

So, this is no promise, no firm indication, or no determined statement of where I might take this, or even if this thought will blossom bigger, but it is a small realization that my interest has been sparked.