Here I am again!

Thanks so much for following me to my NEW BLOG HOME one more time!  And for now this is where I’m planning to stay.

I’m sorry if I’ve seemed slightly "absent" from my blog. Not only have I been more reflective, and silent in the last two weeks, but I have been deep in the throws of transferring my blog to this new platform. I wanted to let you know what was happening, but wasn’t sure if this new platform was going to work out, as...let’s just say that this change has not been easy. I highly recommend that if you start a new blog, do your best to research the platform you will choose, because to move between platforms can be quite involved, certainly more work than I expected. And you don’t realize just how attached you might be to your blog once you start one. I discovered that I am incredibly attached to this blog of mine from the last two years, and the thought of leaving it behind on another platform didn’t sit well either.

So from Wordpress.org, to Wordpress.com to Typepad and back again between all 3 locations is where I’ve been. And with the assistance of tech support, I think I’ve finally managed to get my entire blog all in one location. And I’m still working out the kinks and adjusting my archives, podcasts, links etc, so please bear with me as I continue to refine it. But I thought it best to make the transfer now, so I don’t have to keep moving posts  and comments manually as I have over the last two weeks.

When I originally moved to the new Wordpress.com, two weeks ago. I thought I had more blog capabilities but as it turned out I had far less, and truthfully I have always admired the designs of many of the Typepad blogs I’ve come across. Not to mention, I’ve been wanting to re-design my blog for at least a year, but didn’t have the time or energy to figure it out on Wordpress. I’m not about to make this a post about which blog platform is better, but for me, even a somewhat technically savvy individual, Typepad is sooooo much more intuitive and easier to maneuver in. And it is soooo much more fun to use because of this. In fact I can’t believe how great it is. Now that I’m here, I feel like I’ve been living in a blog fog for the last two years.  Wordpress is good too and improving all the time, but some of their technical restrictions. due to what I understand is for overall heightened "internet security", were very limiting for a creative blogger, and an artist based business, especially an Etsy seller. Let’s just say that one of the biggest problems was that I could no longer use the Etsy Mini Widget on my blog sidebar, and I’m simply not going without my Etsy Mini. :)

Alrighty then, enough about all of that. If any of you out there are contemplating a change between wordpress and typepad, please feel free to email me as I might be able to save you some time in the transfer process.

For now I LOVE it here at Typepad!!! And, it is yet another chance for me to  get a fresh start, which personally and professionally seems like perfect timing, again...as I’m ready for a new beginning, again.

Welcome once more, and I hope you like it here at my new blog home.

(Throughout the years of me getting this little venture called Creative Thursday off the ground, I would often paint paintings with "new" in the title. The one above is one of my favorite ones titled "new beginning", painted about 7 months before I started this blog, so it has never been featured here. It signified a very profound shift in my life and art at the time. One of the recent emails I received asked me how I made it through the times when I didn’t know how I would make it. This was the way. When I didn’t know how I would make it, I painted a painting that would symbolize a "new beginning" and then I’d take it one day at a time from there.)