Color therapy always works

What do you do when you feel down? I play with colors. I go to my shop shelf of TILDA yarn and start picking away on yarn balls. Without any particular project in mind I just arrange and re-arrange colors on my table. Add and take away, throw in something totally unexpected to see what happens and then I'm often getting surprised by the effects it has on the color dynamic. It is the greatest therapy. It works every single time. It never fails. So to celebrate the soothing effect of color therapy I have now listed TILDA yarn in my Etsy Shop. I have made listings for my most popular purchases:

10 balls of your choice
20 balls of your choice
24 balls of your choice
30 balls of your choice

All you need to do is to play around with some color themes in your head and pick and choose from my Tilda Color chart (available here and in each listing on Etsy). And if you want a customized order with less or a specific amount of yarn balls,  don't hesitate to contact me for a Custom order. I ship worldwide.

Last but not least: THANK YOU! You always pick me up when I fall. Thank you for that. And after my last post I felt like sharing some color pop in my blog roll. To spice it up and get on the positive train again. I think it works. :)

Kärlek
Annette

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Etsy Pattern Shop Testing & Crafty Business Rambles...

Hi my lovelies. Have you seen that ETSY has launched a new website/e-commerce feature called Pattern Shop? Well, of course I had to try it out. All the information is already there and all I had to do was to tweak my About page a bit and load up an avatar. It is like having 2 shops in 1.

I guess the idea is to hook up another domain with the Pattern Shop feature top gain more traffic, but I haven't done that yet. You can find me as myrosevalley.patternbyetsy.com for the moment. I'm just trying it out for 30 days (Free Trial) and then we'll see. Not sure I want to add another 15 dollar cost to my monthly Etsy bills...

For a long time I wanted a "real" shop where I could sell my Tilda yarn and as I have mentioned before I have been working on this quite a lot lately (read about my creative escape here). I really wanted a place for my yarn to make them justice and become more approachable for you all. But I have come to a stall... It is more complicated than I initially thought and to be honest I think my efforts sometimes just make things more complicated than they are.

I'm not a big business and I like it to stay small and cozy, personal and simple. I don;t want to feel pressured to produce tons of patterns to always have something new to offer my dear and loyal customers. I just want it to be my little Happy Shop Corner.

When I started selling on Etsy I did it because I loved selling what I made. Later I stepped into pattern design and it showed that you loved the patterns I made as much as I do. My Etsy Shop started to thrive. I started selling Tilda yarn in my Yarn Shop here on the blog because I love working with Tilda yarn, and so I was thrilled to make Tilda available worldwide instead of just available for us Scandinavians.

I started out from the heart and it became a success. Truly beyond my imagination. Little me selling patterns to near and far, seeing your interpretations of my designs in social media... It is the greatest feeling. I'm so thankful.

Small business and small blog grew big and I kind of lost control along the way. For a long time. My blogging mojo has been a serious roller coaster for such a long time and I've been so close to just call it the day and close down it all so many times.

It's like that crazy first love affair where you just dive in head first and after a while you start to question who you are, who your love is and what the hell you are doing because it grows complicated, big and overwhelming... Should I stay or should I go? And although it tears you apart at times you just don't want to let go. Because it fills you up with the greatest feeling at times. A feeling you don't want to loose.

Today I'm just letting it all pour out, frustration, fear, doubt and love. Because I don't know how to move forward. I'm in a bit of a tough place right now privately and I feel a bit stuck in a hamster wheel. I run and run and run, but I just don't get anywhere. And while running my To-Do list grows longer and longer and longer and I don't know where to start. Patterns are unfinished, photos needs to be taken, shop needs to be updated, yarn needs to shown, graphic designs are left half done, website is stuck, messages are to be answered, blog flow is frozen, the calendar is smock full...

So today I'm trying Etsy's new Pattern Shop feature. I'm updating my platforms with a new graphic design. I'm writing a little on the Maybelle Blanket pattern and that is good. I'm taking baby steps. And I truly think I need to do just ONE THING AT A TIME. Otherwise I will be stuck in that hamster wheel forever.

Now it is lunch time and kids are coming home any minute. So I will turn off Blogland for now and escape to Real Life Me. And be present there. Not in a million places at once. I didn't mean to write this. It was just gonna be a blinker about The Pattern Shop. Well, I guess my heart steered it in another direction this time. That happens... I think I boiled over a bit. :)

Thanks for listening and thanks for just being around. Always.

Kärlek
Annette

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The yellow tree time of the year

We came back from a mini break in Southern France, my husband and me. It was 3 days of only the two of us and a true blessing. If there is something I regret throughout the last 15 years, it is that we haven't taken time for ourselves enough. But when living abroad and not having family around, it isn't the easiest thing to organize. So those getaways have been far down on our priority list for many years, but now we are starting to make it happen.

The kids are back to school and I through myself into cleaning the whole house and run 4 loads of laundry yesterday while the sun was out. Because that is what you do when you return with enormous energy from a few days away with your love. Today is a different story with rain and overcast, the yellow tree by the shed is the only thing shining when I look out the window. And the cats, they are always such a joy to watch. They are incredible pretty too, I have to admit. Maya with her wide stripes looking a bit like a Bengal cat and Izzy with her tall posture and intense eyes. Many have asked if they are breeded cats, but no. Maya and Izzy are farmer cats from the same litter. I do suspect the father might have a bit of a Bengal in him though...

I've spent most day indoors, making colorful Tilda circles for a color chart and working on a new exciting project. So far I've finished 24 Tilda circles while enjoying tea and home baked Chocolate Chip Cookies that Nelly Bo made. And the new project is still in early years... I will share more about it later when it starts to take form.

Kärlek
Annette

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