Hola a todos!!! (scroll downn for English version!!)
Bueno esta es una entrada un poco diferente, ya que por una vez tenéis que permitirme que no os enseñe ninguna de mis creaciones (tengo un montón preparadas para los próximos posts, que no cunda el pánico!).
Esta vez escribo para contaros cómo empezó mi blog, y lo agradecida que estoy a la buena acogida que ha tenido hasta ahora.
Después de las vacaciones de Navidad tuve un parón laboral. Trabajo en la universidad como Intérprete de Lengua de Signos, y era época de exámenes, por lo que me tocaba ir un par de horas muy de vez en cuando para cubrir algún examen y poco más. Y resulta que a mi eso de estar en casa sin hacer nada nunca se me ha dado bien. La gente que me conoce me pregunta muy a menudo, ¿pero de dónde sacas el tiempo para hacer todo lo que haces? La verdad que ni yo misma lo sé, pues a pesar de tener un carácter super tranquilo, necesito estar activa, haciendo cosas continuamente. Siempre he sido así, desde muy pequeñita recuerdo que mi madre me decía que era una "catacaldos", me apuntaba a todo lo que podía, y al curso siguiente cambiaba de actividad. No creo que haya persona en el mundo que haya hecho tantas extraescolarres como yo...
Enero se me estaba haciendo muy cuesta arriba. A los tres o cuatro días de estar en casa sin hacer "nada" ya no podía más, nada entre comillas, porque siempre hay cosas que hacer.... limpiar, cocinar, arreglar eso que has ido posponiendo, visitar familia, quedar con los amigos... Además nos habíamos mudado de casa a primeros de diciembre, con lo cual todavía tenía el piso patas arriba, no conocía el barrio, tenía que arreglar unas cosillas y comprar muchas cosas que faltaban... Aún así, seguía encontrándome con mucho tiempo libre, y eso me desesperaba.
De siempre me ha gustado hacer manualidades, tengo muchas cosas por casa que he hecho yo, he ido regalando muchas cosas, o incluso me he diseñado pendientes y anillos para bodas! Me chiflan todo tipo de accesorios, me gusta mucho la moda, los bolsos, los zapatos, pintarme las uñas... y ahora que trabajo de Intérprete de Lengua de Signos tengo que ir vestida de negro, sin ningún tipo de accesorio o complemento, y con las uñas sin pintar... menuda gracia! ¿Y que hago yo con todo lo que he hecho? No puedo abandonar mis manualidades así por que sí... me entretiene hacerlas y me encanta el resultado! ¿Y si las vendo? O... ¿y si hago un blog para enseñar lo que hago y como lo hago?
Tras mucho meditarlo, un día cogí y dije... voy a abrir un blog ahora mismo, no puedo más, necesito hacer algo! Empecé a leer y leer, y volver a releer cómo crear un blog y me dí de bruces con todo esto...
Y un sinfín de palabras más que jamás había escuchado... madre mía, ¡en la que me he metido! ¡¡Pero si yo no tengo tiempo para todo esto!!
Con tiempo y ganas se puede, estoy descubriendo un mundo que jamás se me había pasado por la cabeza, y está siendo muy muy satisfactorio. Ver cómo aumentan tus visitas, ver como cada vez tienes más seguidores, proponerte nuevos retos y ver que gustan, leer comentarios de agradecimiento por los tutoriales... ¡Es tan satisfactorio! Si estáis pensando en abrir un blog, no lo dudéis. Las excusas tipo "no tengo tiempo" o "no tengo ni idea de como hacerlo", son sólo eso, excusas.
Todo lo que empezó como un hobby, algo para entretenerme, está pasando a ser una obsesión, algo con lo que disfruto, de lo que aún me queda mucho por aprender, pero que me llena de orgullo y satisfacción (aquí hago un apunte, soy republicana pero esta frase me venía como anillo al dedo).
Así que este post os lo dedico a todos aquellos que me seguís y me leéis. Ojalá me sigáis dando tantas alegrías... Ojalá... bonita canción, os dejo un vídeo signado y no me enrollo más, que lo disfrutéis.
Marta.
ENGLISH VERSION!
Hi everyone!!
This post is going to be a bit different. This time you are going to have to forgive me for not posting any of my creations (don't panic, I already have some posts prepared for next week!). This time I'm going to tell you about how this blog started and how thankful I feel for the nice welcome that I've recieved.
After Christmas I was out of work. I work at university as a Sign Language Interpreteur, and the exam period here in Spain is in January, so I only had to go to work a couple of hours every now and again. It turns out that I've never been very good at doing nothing. People that know me often ask me... where do you get the time to do so much stuff? To be honest, I don't even know myself. I'm a very calm and chilled out person, but I need to be active, doing different things all the time. I've always been a busy little bee. My mum used to tell me that when I was a kid, as I always wanted to take up new activities.
So last January was starting to be a hard month for me... I couldn't bear it after three or four days at home doing "nothing", I wrote nothing between inverted commas because I had to clean, cook, fix that thing that I kept postponing, visit family, meet friends... And also, we had just moved house in December, so the flat was quite a mess, I didn't know the neighbourhood, had to fix some things, buy lots of stuff that were missing... Even so, I still found myself with lots of free time, which was getting on my nerves.
I've always liked making all types of handmade stuff, I have many things that I made around the house, I've also given some of them to friends, and I even designed rings and earrings for some weddings that I've been to! I love all types of accessories, I also love fashion, and of course shoes, bags, painting my nails.... and now that I work as a Sign Language Interpreteur I have to wear black clothes, not wear any kinds of accessories, and can't have my nails painted... great right? So what do I do now with all the things that I've been making? And also.. I can't just give up my hobby just beacuse of my job... I love making and wearing them! What if I sell them? Or even better, what if I start a blog to show what I make and how I make it?
After thingking about it, one day I made a decision and all of a sudden said... I can't put up with it, I need to do something with my time! I'm going to start a blog right now! So I started reading and reading, and re-reading about how to create a blog... and then all this hit me:
And a whole lot more of words that I'd never heard before... OMG, what have I done? I don't have enough free time to go through all this!!
Bit by bit, and with a bit of effort and enthusiasm, I'm starting to discover a world that had never come to my mind before... and it's brilliant! Seeing how the visits are rising every day, seeing how followers are also increasing, facing new challenges, realising that people like the things you write about, getting new comments thanking you for the tutorials... it's so nice!! So, if any of you are thinking about starting a blog, don't hesitate!! Excuses such as "I have no time" or "I don't know anything about how to do it", are just that, excuses.
It all started as a hobby, something to keep my mind busy, and it's starting to become an obsession, something that I really enjoy doing, something that I still need to learn a lot about, but somthing that fulfills me.
So this post has been written for all of you, those who follow me and read my blog. Hopefully you will keep making me happy in the future... Hopefully... there's a song called "hopefully" in Spanish (Ojalá) that is really beautiful, so here's the link to a signed video of the song. Enjoy it.
Marta.
Marta.
ENGLISH VERSION!
Hi everyone!!
This post is going to be a bit different. This time you are going to have to forgive me for not posting any of my creations (don't panic, I already have some posts prepared for next week!). This time I'm going to tell you about how this blog started and how thankful I feel for the nice welcome that I've recieved.
After Christmas I was out of work. I work at university as a Sign Language Interpreteur, and the exam period here in Spain is in January, so I only had to go to work a couple of hours every now and again. It turns out that I've never been very good at doing nothing. People that know me often ask me... where do you get the time to do so much stuff? To be honest, I don't even know myself. I'm a very calm and chilled out person, but I need to be active, doing different things all the time. I've always been a busy little bee. My mum used to tell me that when I was a kid, as I always wanted to take up new activities.
So last January was starting to be a hard month for me... I couldn't bear it after three or four days at home doing "nothing", I wrote nothing between inverted commas because I had to clean, cook, fix that thing that I kept postponing, visit family, meet friends... And also, we had just moved house in December, so the flat was quite a mess, I didn't know the neighbourhood, had to fix some things, buy lots of stuff that were missing... Even so, I still found myself with lots of free time, which was getting on my nerves.
I've always liked making all types of handmade stuff, I have many things that I made around the house, I've also given some of them to friends, and I even designed rings and earrings for some weddings that I've been to! I love all types of accessories, I also love fashion, and of course shoes, bags, painting my nails.... and now that I work as a Sign Language Interpreteur I have to wear black clothes, not wear any kinds of accessories, and can't have my nails painted... great right? So what do I do now with all the things that I've been making? And also.. I can't just give up my hobby just beacuse of my job... I love making and wearing them! What if I sell them? Or even better, what if I start a blog to show what I make and how I make it?
After thingking about it, one day I made a decision and all of a sudden said... I can't put up with it, I need to do something with my time! I'm going to start a blog right now! So I started reading and reading, and re-reading about how to create a blog... and then all this hit me:
And a whole lot more of words that I'd never heard before... OMG, what have I done? I don't have enough free time to go through all this!!
Bit by bit, and with a bit of effort and enthusiasm, I'm starting to discover a world that had never come to my mind before... and it's brilliant! Seeing how the visits are rising every day, seeing how followers are also increasing, facing new challenges, realising that people like the things you write about, getting new comments thanking you for the tutorials... it's so nice!! So, if any of you are thinking about starting a blog, don't hesitate!! Excuses such as "I have no time" or "I don't know anything about how to do it", are just that, excuses.
It all started as a hobby, something to keep my mind busy, and it's starting to become an obsession, something that I really enjoy doing, something that I still need to learn a lot about, but somthing that fulfills me.
So this post has been written for all of you, those who follow me and read my blog. Hopefully you will keep making me happy in the future... Hopefully... there's a song called "hopefully" in Spanish (Ojalá) that is really beautiful, so here's the link to a signed video of the song. Enjoy it.
Marta.
Hola... Yo comencé mi blog hace aproximadamente 2 días por la misma razón que tu, estaba en casa todo el día cuidando a mi bebe y sin trabajar y se me hacían eternas las horas necesitaba algo que hacer (aparte de todo el oficio que tengo en casa), y pensé que no había cosa mejor que pudiera hacer que crear un blog para compartir todas las cosas que me apasionan. Así que ya estoy en la red, empezando lento pero mirando hacia adelante. Bueno FIN jajaja...
ResponderEliminarTe dejo el link de mi blog para que le des una miradita, estoy abierta a criticas constructivas jeje.. Cuidate.. http://elmundodeangiediy.blogspot.com/