Let's get some life back into this old blog.
I am writing this in June 2020 and I guess it is needless to say that the past several months have been interesting - in a very boring kind of way. The kind of interesting that might seem okay to read about in a history book, but actually living through it is just tedious, draining and nerve-wrecking.
3 months and counting in more or less quarantine, with a large part of social life being eliminated have put quite a toll on the more outgoing part of my personality. Although I am, as I am perfectly aware, in a very privileged situation as in that I am able work from home, was able to keep my job and do not have any children to take care of.
Still, this situation does have considerable mental health impact on me and I am grateful that I have a productive hobby that allows me to switch into introvert mode so I can keep myself busy and distracted. The fact that I bought a new, expensive, fancy sewing machine in the week before Covid-19 hit the Netherlands was a very lucky coincidence and so I found my sewing mojo again and now have project after project lined up.
Occupational therapy, I guess.
I enjoy sharing my sewing progress and projects on Insta and connecting with other makers this way, but as a platform it is not exactly made for writing extensive texts and I do miss documenting my projects properly. And I miss writing. It's a sort of egotrip. I do admire people who keep up journal writing, my attempts always failed.
Let's see what this blogging attempt brings.
Meanwhile, feel free to browse through the feed of my (comparatively new) sewing Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/tungsten.needles/
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