The Painful Beginning

Good Monday Morning Everyone!

I was going through some old posts last night  of furniture to add to a board on Pinterest and nearly peed my pants looking at some of them.

Can you remember starting your first job when you were younger - and not knowing what in God's name you were doing?

Can you remember that feeling of being completely alone in a new world?

Can you remember trying to figure out where you fit in - which group seemed most like you?

Can  you remember trying to look very very busy and efficient when the whole time your brain 

was trying frantically to make sense of things that were completely alien and foreign to you?

That's exactly what my first 6 months of blogging were like - 

I had no voice - absolutely none - 

My posts showed no reflection of my character whatsoever

Flat.

I was struggling to find my place in a world where literally hundreds of thousands of people had got there before me - I'm always late to a party.

So I wrote my posts - I uploaded my photos - and ambled along that way for quite awhile.

No one came.

No one commented.

No one knew I was alive.

AND

then one day it happened

I found my voice 

my ridiculous

bizarre

over 

the 

top 

voice

that I was too afraid to use in the beginning

And the magic happened

People actually came by 

they commented

they showed so much love that I was overwhelmed

and my blog grew

  I feel so connected to every single one of you 

that loyally come by day after day 

even when I'm overwhelmed and can't get back to you as soon as I should.

We're almost at 700 followers 

and that means we're almost at another give away 

Unless I just stay at 696 forevah

and that would be so over the moon ok with me!

The below is one of those posts from my anonymous days

I get to repost it because I was anonymous then lol

and I actually may start reposting some of the other things I did

from time to time.

If anyone were to ask me for advice today on blogging 

the thing I would shout off the rooftops is this

FIND YOUR OWN VOICE

and use it

every day

It won't be for everybody 

Some people won't like your voice 

They'll come 

and then they'll go 

But eventually people will find you

and surprisingly they'll like your voice

and for the most part they are the one's who

stay

for those of you that have stayed I can't tell you how very dear you've become to me

XXX

I also want to give a shout out to Maryann from  Power of Paint

who has been kind enough to feature me a few times - and has featured me again today

Visit her site if you aren't already following her - she's one of my go-to's.

And lastly 

 Here's a post from the old days - the dressers pretty nice 

the post is boring as hell lol

( and I had to redo all the photos to watermark them because I had no idea how to do that back in the day )

and the collage?

I made that up today also lol

The dresser was first painted Old White - and then Paris Grey was lightly dry brushed over the surface

to give it layered old " worn " look

Such beautiful details - and the colors make the details stand out - I painted the
wooden handles in both of the colors - white - then the gray in the middle - and
then sanded them to expose some of the original wood color.  Hope she
sells as quick as the last one, do not want to have to look at her for too long or
I may never be able to say goodbye ;(

xxx

oops - here is the before shot - minus the drawers because I had already gotten
my greedy hands on the paint before I remembered!!

and this is what the drawers looked like - I was still working on the middle one in this pic - lol

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