Please excuse my recent tardiness!

I was so good about writing regular blog posts, but recently I have really dropped the ball. Almost four weeks since my last blog post, I know. Please excuse my recent tardiness!

Today, I am going to throw the nice SEO, the beautifully sectioned of paragraphs, and the expected “style” out of the window and do what I do best. Just talk to you, in a conversational style the way I do on my Facebook Page posts. This is me, inviting you into my sanctuary, and offering you a seat.

Lately, I have come to realize something, that has been sitting wrong with me, but I couldn’t put my finger on. I have been feeling a disconnect from my own blog here. A barrier if you will, and I couldn’t for the life of myself figure out why. Then, out of the blue, today it hit me.

I fell into a trap that so many fall into. Since this blog is still so new (less than a year old), and has very minimal traffic, I was determined to play the SEO games. Afterall, isn’t that how you get found on Google? Isn’t that how your readership can find you? Wasn’t that how I would manage to not only introduce myself to you, but introduce you to my handmade treasures and point the way for you to find them?

Only in the process of all of that, I forgot something massive. I forgot that I don’t talk in SEO, I talk like a human being. Well sort of, anyway. I still insist, from time to time, that I am not human – I am a Phoenix. Just like I have all these weird little character quirks that writing all “professional like” got completely stripped out. EGADS and all thy little fishes! (See what I mean?)

Isn’t getting away from all the “should” and “being myself” the whole reason for me starting over again in my 50’s? Didn’t I say, I was tired of living a lie, being beige, being someone that fits into a nice little box of someone else’s making? I think I did. Repeatedly, stubbornly, and loudly.

And what did I do? The opposite. I was a good little lama, fell for the prescribed “how to write a blog post” style dictatorship, and in the process lost the soul of what I was doing. Someone slap me, please! Or hit me with a super soft pillow. I will even accept kitty pummels with grace and gratitude.

Now mind you, writing my blog post like this, will take forever for any spider or AI program to pick up, but at least it is authentically me.

So, my dears, moving forward, I am flipping the bird to the whole style and SEO BS, and just talk to you.

I will invite you into conversations with me. Lay it out, the best way I can.

And if my grammar goes wonky from time to time, I beg your pardon. I still get my grammar ass-backwards at times, even after 30+ years in this country. Just think of it as me writing with an accent.

Well, I’ll let this stand for now and thank you as always for visiting with me.

This post is short, in comparison to all of my other ones, but I just wanted to clue you in, to why I have been absent lately.

I have a lot of updates of what I have been creating as of late, how I am working on building my handmade business up and what all I have been doing in order to try to grow.

That, however, will be a separate post.

Until next time, my dears!

All the blessings from

Artisan Regina L.

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