The Motivation

This post was originally published on Thursday, April 12, because I started the blog in the wrong place.

So begins another blog project.

Recently I began making beaded jewelry. It started innocently enough, in a misguided attempt to make inexpensive personalized holiday gifts for friends. The gifts turned out all right, but the "inexpensive" part was a bit off, because of course I became rabidly obsessed with a new crafting opportunity.

Then there was rationalization. I thought, if I can sell some of these earrings on Etsy or whatever, I can justify this terrible habit to myself. Then I started dreaming up all these amazing things I was going to make and sell: earrings, rings, knitwear, geeky things, awesome tchotckes!

But let's be realistic. I am not going to be the next Etsy star, or major knit designer, or hilarious blogger who can start new memes at will, or even somebody who can manage to produce cool stuff that people might want to pay for with any kind of regularity. I'm way too lazy. When it boils down to the choice between making use of the 9,000 bits of crafty supplies I've accumulated and moved across the country multiple times, or watching another episode of Star Trek: The Original Series on Netflix, Kirk and Spock will win. Every time.

That said, I, like many of you out there, am on a continuous quest to improve myself. To achieve goals, to do what I set out to do, to make enough money to buy more booze. I need to be more productive! It is time to be the person I want to be. The person who makes cool things as well as watches hours of science fiction television shows and drinks beer in dive bars. Plus I just moved to New Jersey and I don't know anybody, so now seems like as good a time as any.

So this blog will document my efforts to be more crafty, with a purpose. I'm gonna make things. If they seem awesome, I will try to sell them. And if I end up on Regretsy at any point, I will die happy.