Now there’s a mile-stone: one hundred days of blogging every single day.

Impressive!

You know what else is impressive?!  I managed to upload five new earrings onto our Caraliza Jewellery website today (and there’s a handy little link for you to go check them out!).

I’m delighted because I worked damn hard two weeks ago to photograph fifty million pieces of jewellery and then spent hours and hours editing the photos and then did very little about actually putting them up online.

But today was a good start.  We also have some professional shots coming soon of some of our more expensive pieces which will be fantastic.  My latest photography efforts are pretty awesome (even if I do say so myself) but there’s nothing quite like the professional shots, mainly due to the equipment and lighting that our lovely photographer has available where I’m merely using my little Huawei P9 lite by the sitting room window.

All the more reason I’m feeling proud.

I’m also proud that I’ve kept writing these daily scribbles everyday for the past three months.  There’s something very satisfying about being so consistent and creating content everyday, whether I’m motivated or not, tired or fresh, feeling inspired or utterly blank.

There are some great quotes on being a writer and one of them goes like this:

I write when I’m inspired. And I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.

Being a writer doesn’t necessarily mean you’re constantly filled with ideas and inspiration and can sit down at any moment to create glorious works of art.  Being a writer usually means sitting down to a blank page/computer screen and feeling that familiar nagging worry that today could be the day when I come up empty.

I can’t tell you how many times these past few months I’ve sat down wondering what on earth to talk about, writing several paragraphs, deleting the lot and starting over numerous times before at last an idea starts to flow.

You can’t sit around and wait for inspiration.  You have to make every effort to draw her in by sitting down and starting your craft, day in, day out, whether or not you’re “in the mood”.

Mood rarely has anything to do with it, consistent practice is the key.  Not just with writing, everything really, but we creative types often think we need to feel the spark of diving inspiration to come up with something good, something artistic.

I’ve heard it a million times and I’ve experienced it repeatedly myself in my writing; don’t wait for the spark, begin anyway.  Because often, the spark is there already, we just don’t recognize it yet.

Ciao darlings!

Lizzie xxxx