I’m So Sorry, I Have A Confession…

I hate to admit this, but I have strayed. I have not been very loyal. I don’t know what got into me. I tried to stick with it for the sake of the kids, but I just needed a break. I know that I should have just con­tin­ued to work at it and pre­tend I was hav­ing fun, but I just didn’t have it in me. Sorry, scrap­books, I gave up on my dig­i­tal scrap­book­ing for a while, but guess what? I’m BACK!!

The Begin­ning

I started scrap­book­ing when my old­est was just a few months old, so it’s been 13+ years. As with all of my hob­bies and projects, I go into it with full force with an all or noth­ing atti­tude. I paper scrapped until I was on bed rest at the end of my fourth preg­nancy when I found dig­i­tal scrap­book­ing. I was imme­di­ately hooked and once again, put every­thing I had into dig­i­tal scrap­book­ing to the point of scrap­book­ing exhaustion.

For the last year, I have scrapped, maybe 5 pages. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to scrap. Every time I sat at my com­puter to do a lay­out, my mojo was nowhere to be found. I really really wanted to scrap, but finally I just gave up. I was really sad. I felt like part of me was miss­ing, like I wasn’t com­plete. Yeah, I know that sounds silly and all sappy, but it’s true.

Get­ting Lost

So, what got me all side­tracked? My blog! I know my blog is SCRAPS of My Geek Life, so I should be all about the scrap­book­ing. I let the num­bers, per­fec­tion, SEO, key­words, niches and a whole bunch of other details get in the way of the rea­son I started to blog. To share my geek filled, scrap­book lov­ing life with all of you.

In the past year, I’ve attended 4 con­fer­ences and each time I had hoped I would fig­ure out exactly what my niche was and how to make 6 fig­ures on my blog using the per­fect SEO for­mula. I didn’t find those answers. Big sur­prise? Nope! I came back from each con­fer­ence ener­gized and filled with lots of new infor­ma­tion, but I really wasn’t sure what to do with that energy and info.

Find­ing My Mojo

This past week I attended Mom 2.0 and once again I had hoped to find all the answers there. I didn’t find the answers to those ques­tions, but what I did find was much more impor­tant to me. My mojo! My dig­i­tal scrap­book­ing mojo. Maybe it was hav­ing Stacy Julian in the same room as me (won­der if mojo can rub off of some­one? If so, maybe I can bot­tle that and make my 6 fig­ures!) Regard­less of how, I’m glad to have it back. I’m going to go cre­ate a new lay­out now.

What are your hob­bies? Have you ever lost inter­est in your hobby and what did you do (if any­thing) to get it back?

Post inspired by Wet­fish Designs’s mojo post. Stock image from stock.xchng, author is svilen001

Tagged as: Digital, digital scrapbooking, geek, mojo, Scrapbooking, Stacy Julian