Calling Old Crochet

Okay, so one of my hobbies is crochet and I have a ton of it on Ravelry (under my old name) but I don't know what to do with it. There's so many patterns, and it would a total pain to port it all to a new Rav store. I'd also have to edit all the PDFs, maybe work up new samples for photography purposes, possibly change pattern names... and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

However... I'm thinking maybe I could just do some new patterns? Draw a line under the old stuff (which is fairly dead in the water, at this point, as I haven't been able to concentrate on it for a while) and move on to new work? That's one of the side effects of escaping domestic issues; you have to cut ties and start afresh, in more ways than one. So, I won't start SLOAH Designs with a back catalogue. That's okay. I'll start with a clean slate, and leave the rest for when I have more time. :)

Crayons Don't Quit

This is fast turning into a blog about a blog! Anyway, I have been working on updating and porting old SLOAH Resources from one TpT store to another (as you cannot have the same product on more than one store). One of those products is The Day The Crayons Quit packet, which goes super well with How Crayons Are Made - the latter was already on my store and the former had to be ported from my old store.

It's a bit of a chore to go through so many old worksheets and refresh the format and cover pages. However, it's really starting to come together and someone kindly gave me some TpT product feedback almost as soon as I uploaded the Crayons Quit packet, which is very incentivising. :)

For a wonder, I have also remembered to edit my old blog post, The Day The Crayons Quit Lesson Ideas, with the updated TpT link.

I'm so buoyed up with the particular port success that I'm going to stick more crayon ideas on my ever growing to-do list. I love knowing for which resources people are most interested, and I'm keen to focus my efforts on products that will provide the most support and assistance. All in all, a good morning today! :)

SLOAH Designs & SLOAH Resources

As part of my big blog shake-up, while I'm keeping my primary blog on WordPress, I'm thinking about consolidating my various personal projects under the SLOAH brand. This is no small undertaking as I have a great many diverse interests!

It makes perfect sense for my teaching resources (and SLOAH Resources will make a great subdivision name) but other things are less straightforward. I have a number of design interests that may not obviously appear interconnected to anyone other than myself. However, on reflection, I feel that I could make this work as SLOAH Designs. After all, if it was straightforward artwork, there would be no problem flourishing mix-media creations and declaring them to be definitely under the umbrella of general Art. So, any type of design is surely still design work and can be named as such? Graphic design, yarn design, web design... it's all design to me. Sometimes, one can overthink these decisions. I'm ready to let go, and take the leap of faith that SLOAH is up for the win. :)

#Serenity

Better the Devil You Know

There's an old saying: better the devil you know. Sometimes, it's also about wrong time and place. I think, regretfully, that switching blogging platforms isn't the solution I need at this moment in time.

I have a lot of love for Blogger - it was one of my earliest blogging tools, when I was younger, and it's got that plug-and-play simplicity that is impossible not to adore. However, having invested nearly a year of my life into WordPress, I find it's grown on me, wrapped tendrils around my blogging, and has changed the way I post.

I'm going to keep this Blogger account, for incidental posts, but it's not the right moment to give it primary status. I love Blogger... but, for now, I love WordPress even more. :)

The Big Blog Move

I'm contemplating jumping from WordPress to Blogger. That means: painstakingly downloading XML files, running backups, adjusting settings, and generally feeling exhausted before one has begun! Please bear with me, as I attempt to get this show on the road. :)