That is the question I've asked myself for some time now. With SO MANY Blogs out there, why should I possibly start one? I've talked myself out of it for a long time, and with good reason. I'm not a writer, I didn't finish high school, never went to college, am completely behind in technology (our family just got Internet a couple years ago), in no way whatsoever do I consider myself an expert on the subject I intend to blog about, and I'm a pretty private/shy person. That's not even scratching the surface, I could easily keep going, but let's move on to why I decided to start a blog in-spite of my shortcomings and the fact that the world doesn't really need another furniture painting blog.
Basically, I've decided to blog about my small furniture business because I've only been using Facebook and recently Instagram to show my work and hopefully sell it. I started using IG so my friends that aren't on FB could see what I do and also to show some sneak peeks of my current projects. Facebook has been my main source of interaction with customers, diy-ers, and my peers in this field. Recently, I've seen a huge drop in how many people Facebook is letting see my page (rude). Besides that, when I'm posting a piece I just finished painting, I struggle with what to write. I often want to tell about how I got to the finished product, what it took, what went wrong, what went right, what brand and color of paint I used....and of course I want to tell you where you can purchase. Plus, I spend a lot of time answering people's questions "what paint did you use?" "where'd you get those knobs?" "where's that paper from?", in addition to private messages. I SO appreciate any (ok I don't love the not so nice comments) and all interaction on my FB page and I try really hard to respond to every comment (some do slip by me, sorry about that). But, it does take up a lot of time answering the same questions over and over. (I'm not complaining, like I said I appreciate all interaction, I've heard that comments and likes help your page to be seen by more people, and thats great!) I've decided to try out blogging in an effort to answer all those questions before they even get asked! I haven't written a furniture blog post (is that even what you call it?) yet, so I don't know what you can expect exactly. Maybe I should have written one up before this? But I will try and answer all those question I get, with my very simple "how to" or more accurately "how I did it". I want this blog to be helpful and informative to the best of my capabilities. There'll also be a place to find my current inventory for sale. So if you can overlook my poor grammar, bad spelling (but not horrible thanks to spell check), the wrong use of there and to..., and occasionally the wrong meaning of a word altogether, then I hope you'll follow my blog and find something in it useful!
As a side note, this is a work in Progress(obviously, right!?). You will notice, besides the simplicity, I'm missing the handy little Facebook, Instagram, Contact/Email...buttons on the side, that's because I haven't figured out how to get them. I tried watching a tutorial on how to get them, but he was not speaking my language. So if any of you tech savvy people want to lend some advice, feel free to email me! I would be forever grateful!
And remember, stay in school and take computer classes!! See, I told you I wanted to give useful information :)
I leave you in anticipation for my first furniture post with a sneak peek picture of my current project ;)
~Aurora
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