Well finally I get round to blogging for 2020. I have been making some updates to my Blog and think I am almost ready to pay for it so that I can keep it forever and maybe actually open up my little Badge/ Sticker and Notebook shop on here – a bit further down the line though eh.

Anyway I was straight into it there wasn’t I, I would like to ask how you are doing. Did you have a good Christmas and New Year? Are you sad its gone or happy its over and a little normality can set in again?

Me well, I love Xmas and I like calling it Xmas and not Christmas too!! I am not lazy I just think the word itself looks more festive with an X in it??? OK yep I may be loosing it a bit, but its the truth.

I have been So busy for about 4 months now. With little Crafting Jobs, my home, my kids, the internet!!! Just everything was all getting a bit too much for me so I took a little social media break. I didn’t disappear altogether but I just had to back off a little bit. My fault, I have too many pages, to many places to go, Instagram, Youtube, Pinterest, my Blog (I love my Blog though, Wordpesss hasn’t let me down like Blogger has!

And with all this going on and my Daughters Birthday on 13th

Anyway I am going to thin everything down this year. I have so many goals, ambitions and to do lists, that I just don’t have time to write them all down!!! You know what Blogging does, it records everything for you while you get things off your chest, or chat to friends and likeminded people and share your what you have discovered in the Crafting World. I particularly love to share videos.

So my to do / Bullet list……… for 2020

Make Blogging a Top Priority

Make My YouTube Channel a Top Priority

Thin out my Face Book Pages, but beg the followers on each to please move over to my priority -pages – to be announced.

Put photos of DT cards onto Instagram immediately after TV Shows instead of letting them pile up!!

Copy Things over to Pinterest – it was my first real Social Media Baby so I want to keep it going.

Don’t write too many To Do Lists!!!!

Most important!! Keep up with all my Claritystamp Work – it is THE top priority and will be very exciting this year. Actually Starting this Month. I am So proud of what I have on my Desk in front of me right now. I will Blog about all this at the beginning of Feb, I don’t want any slip ups on what I can and can’t tell you now do I????

I have so much prep to do for my TV Debut on HOCHANDA with Claritystamp on 31st January 2020 – 8am and 12pm in case I haven’t already told you?? I will be dedicating the next few weeks to that and nothing else. I have decided to record myself while I make my samples. (Can you believe I have just amended Record from Tape myself, now that shows my age doesn’t it?)

When I make YouTube Videos I go straight into demonstration mode as soon as the camera is switched on. This helps me to make a better job of it. So if I video myself while making my samples I am assuming the same will happen. Then after the show, I can go into Vlogger Mode or should that be “Inflencer” ? I think you need a few more followers than I have to become an Influencer!!!! So then I can show some of the videos of me prepping cards and demoes on my YouTube Channel, not all of it obviously. Then I have my Blogs all set up ready to go too. See if everthing is linked it will all be easier to handle and I can be in contact more with the people who are interested in my Tutorials?? Oh and then I can slip them into my Workshops too —– which I still need to get booked in by the way.

Cor my head is So Full right now!!!

When I make my DT Samples there is a massive amount of work that goes into the thought process, the prep, the stress, the doubt, the late nights and finally the Loud Music to switch off the mind in the hope of new discovery of something a bit different??? Sometimes it can take me days to get my head into the right mode then if I get interrupted I am right back at wondering where to start. Boy is it a process with me. I try to do speed crafting with myself but it never works. I get there in the end though, usually when I think Ah Just get yer Gel Plate out!!!!

So thats cleared out my head a little bit. I will come back to this post this time next year and see if I stuck to my plan and achieved my goals.
Sorry but my goals are too long to do a list for tonight!!!!!

Thank you for nipping into my Blogland and thank you for your support. Of course if you don’t follow me already it would be great if you would.

It would make a great Birthday Present to get a good few new followers. My Birthday started 50 Minutes ago!!!!

And anyway I have never actually Blogged them before. I must admit I am proud of them.

I know they aren’t finished but it was my own process with no tutorials. I like to discover techniques for myself and I do love Panting.

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me……… what am I so happy about I am flaming FIFTY NINE YEARS OLD!!! OMG its even worse when you see it written down. Its fine being 59 but blimey why do I still feel 30 inside!! Its that disappointment when you look in the mirror and you obviously are NOT still 30!!!

Actually??? I used to be two years younger than Barbara Gray, but she turned 60 last year so how can I be 59 now??? Mmmm am I only 58??

Maybe I will be able to work it out after a little sleep.

Good night

Sam Crowe.