As a sewing blogger, the hardest thing for me is when you don't sew things, what do you blog about?
I have some projects I'll show you this next week, that aren't garment sewing exactly... fun relaxing kind of sewing! Like my millions of rope bowls last year, I have started some new ways to sew and make things. Art. Dare I say it! But, actually I feel throughout March, I spent a lot of time *sharpening* my skills... and rather like my son's lovely collection of pencils above... the more I'm sharpening, the more colours and pointy pieces of my career & personality are coming through. It's been a funny month career-wise, and full of more personal/professional development instead of getting paid, but I guess that's where I'm at right now here in Shanghai!
Here's a hilarious (to me) list of things I've been up to in March:
- Started being a filmmaker - documenting aspects of Chinese Weddings, recording audio & video for the first time, seriously. (Not just for youtube at work!)
- Blogging Workshopwise - with M Glam and Shanghai Bloggers, I launched M Blog Club as part of the Shanghai International Literary Festival... very happy! And made a blog about blog tips in Shanghai!
- Hosted a 10 minute presentation at a corporate conference, on the subject of Wechat: Social Media at Work
- Moderated a Q&A session with author Joshua Scher, as part of the LitFest! Channeling my radio interview skills, dream inspo being Zan Rowe!
- Made a website for my organisation IPWS where I'm a Board Member in sponsorship, but now a Web Admin Guru (!)
- I've been a Guest Judge for the China International Comedy Festival at the very funny Kung Fu Komedy club here in Shanghai
- Ran a Speed Networking Event through my group last night
- And was almost going to run a Sewing Skirts for Beginners class, but with Easter Weekend they had to postponse!
BUSY CITY!
I'm a bit pooped on this last day of March, but I'll head out for more judging laughs at the Suzhou leg of the comedy festival... should be fun, plus I've never been to Suzhou before!
What have you been doing in March? Keeping busy? Hiding until springtime/autumn? I hope you've been keeping well and happy whatever you're up to!
Working on something is much better than doing nothing in the time. I think that you are doing a great job to be doing some interesting and funny things in spare time.
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