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Change is in the wind! Or in the magical digital interwebs, anyway.

You see, I’ve decided to ‘retire’ my Crafting a Business blog over on JessicaVanDen.com, and incorporate any crafty biz posts back into this blog.

Honestly, I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with that site at the moment, because I’m shaking things up over here on Epheriell Designs, too.

You see, I have recently (and by recently, I mean in the past few months) found a nifty little label for myself – I’m what’s called a Renaissance Soul. For those of you not familiar with the term, it was coined by Margaret Lobenstine, and it describes a person who has many different passions throughout their lifetime.

I’ve always been someone who discovered a new passion and then became OBSESSIVE about it for a period of time, before moving on to something else. I used to think that I just couldn’t stick to any one thing, and that this made me a ‘bad’ or ‘flighty’ person.

Now I see it as a strength.

And while my main business at this moment in my life revolves around craft and making, I have many other passions that make their way into my life.

I’ve refrained from talking about them here because I’ve always stuck to the blogging rule – niche, niche, niche! That your blog should be narrowly focussed on one specific topic to be ‘successful’.

Well, to be frank – stuff that.

This is my blog, and it’s about my life. Craft, handmade, and vintage are a big part of my life, but I want to share all the other passions that draw me in, too. And, really, when you think about it, this blog is all about living a creative life – but it’s also about living creatively.

I want to talk more about what it’s like to live the life I’ve chosen – because really, it’s a pretty unusual path, and one I want to share the joys of!

I want to share the little details – and I want to share the big philosophies.

I want to be free to share my new passions with you as they burst into being – no matter what they might be.

I want to let go of constraints, and be my authentic self.

On the practical side of things, I have a LOT going on in my business, and trying to keep two blogs running well (as well as maintain the news blog on the *bespoke* website) was just doing my head in. I needed to simplify.

So this is me simultaneously simplifying and expanding!

If there’s one thing I’m aiming for in my life, it’s individuality. I have never wanted to be like ‘everyone else’, so why should I try to do that with my blog?

I guess the last month or two has been a bit of an introspective time for me. As most of you know, my Granny passed away in late April, and while I don’t feel like I’m in any sort of deep grief any more, I guess it has had an impact on me, and ‘took the wind out of my sails’ a little bit.

I’ve spent a lot of time in the last month just keeping the status quo going, reading FAR too many novels on my kindle (and discovering a passion for a new genre, but more on that in another post!). It’s been a bit of a quiet time, but I can feel myself coming out of that now.

Ironically, I have just shut all my jewellery shops in preparation for our big trip to the UK and France (6 weeks! Leaving Sunday!) so the next few months will no doubt be full of stories from the road (and a photo of me standing in front of the Eiffel Tower – cheesy but necessary, non?).

I’m really hoping you’ll love the changes, and keep me company on my journey. Some of you might move on if what I talk about doesn’t interest you, and that’s cool ๐Ÿ™‚ But for those who remain, I hope you enjoy the little snippets into my life. In fact, I hope you fall more in love with the stories and thoughts (and still PLENTY of awesome inspirational goodness) that I’ll be sharing.

Of course, I’ll still be posting about groovy handmade goodies, vintage, art, and more – because that’s still a big part of my life. I’m just going to be talking about MORE.

You with me?