Sadly, I have a tendency to freeze up and do nothing, when confronted with too much of a popular trend. Even if it is something that I have been interested in for a long time, or I think I have a new twist on it. I am very self conscious of being seen as a copy cat or following a trend, and I have had some very negative and discouraging experiences with going out on my own to accomplish a concept that is a little "off true".
I ran across something yesterday that made me think "all the cool ideas are taken" so that is where this stems from. Sadly children were too noisy so I probably didn't write it well.
you did just fine. I blame my mother. She had an unfailing ability when I was young to really praise what I did, then find something that had inspired me, or that tangentially was similar that I knew about and go "oh, I thought your idea was original, that is too bad that you are just copying".
It IS really tough. Even though I'm loving the curtain-along and I feel it gives us all permission to not be especially unique, I still want to put my own spin on it.
Thanks for the link to Kitty Calash, BTW. I had not seen her blog before!
I googled "curtain along" and most of the hits I got, you had on your pinterest, but not that one, which was why I linked to it, in hopes you would see it, in a round about way.
I wish I could join the curtain along, but my life sucks right now.
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I blame my mother. She had an unfailing ability when I was young to really praise what I did, then find something that had inspired me, or that tangentially was similar that I knew about and go "oh, I thought your idea was original, that is too bad that you are just copying".
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Thanks for the link to Kitty Calash, BTW. I had not seen her blog before!
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I wish I could join the curtain along, but my life sucks right now.
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