Just wondering

I have been wondering today, which is something I do when I feel stressed over the amount of work I need to accomplish in the next few weeks, that perhaps 2011 might become the "Year of Privacy." What do you think?

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Bob and I went to see "The Social Network" I liked it very much, but was it not lost on anyone else, that Marc Zuckerberg stole this idea from someone else? That the whole idea for facebook and the social frenzy the world has whipped upon itself was based on an idea that belonged to someone else?

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I've been connecting, in a very real way to my customers since I started my business. My work already tells a story and the pieces are born from the dreams of weddings and anniversaries and children adopted from far off places. My jewelry makes those memories real. The connections I have with those people are real.

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I think the blah blah blah of Facebook and Twitter are the antithesis of real connection.

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While I'm wondering and thinking, I'm going outside to rake some leaves on this beautiful fall day. Then, I'm going to make some more jewelry and print shipping labels until the wee hours of the morning. Life is good.

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I hope you are kissing the ones you love,

xoSherry

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ps. do you think it's coincidence that there are 13,900 results for "assbook?" :)

Cross roads, What do you think?

I'm at a cross roads with my blog, and I think decisions need to be made. A couple of things have happened to make that abundantly clear. When I first started my blog, only etsy folk stopped by. I got to know them, read their blogs and some of the entries were pretty personal.

Then, last year, as I expanded my company, I started my own website and linked my blog to the site. Last week, I wrote a post about Michael Jackson, and while I stand by every word, I got some hate mail for it. (thanks to the kind soul who alerted me) and I removed the whole post.

I know now that having a website makes the circle a whole lot wider than etsy and I cannot be so personal anymore. I've always thought that a blog, a virtual on line public diary was narcissistic, and yet I've done it anyway. I'm not sure my customers need to know about my weight loss or cycling goals or that my son is headed for college.

It's funny, but the more my name gets out there, the more google pages I see, the more I become protective of the private details of my life.

So, I could write a more professional blog, actually a new one. I could stop writing in public all together. I'm at a cross roads. What do you think?