For someone who has written a blog since May 2011, been on Instagram since July 21, 2025 (4,478 posts to date) and has her Youtube channel (started September 2024)— it may come as a surprise to you that I don’t really know how to use Facebook.
I kind of missed the boat on that—when it was starting, my girls were young and because I could text pictures of them to a small group of family members, I didn’t really see the need for it. Also, I wanted them to learn to make friends in real life instead of on a screen. I didn’t want to model to them about being on a screen instead of playing, making, reading and being together with those in the room….
But as a result, I don’t really know Facebook at all.
My limited experiences on it (posting on local groups when I started my flower selling business with 13 sweet peas in a bunch for $5– and getting criticized for how incredibly expensive that was ) haven’t been exactly encouraging.
Instagram, on the other hand, has been a place where I have met extremely kind people – creative people, women who have small and now large businesses, women who are real, who garden, grow their creative lives, speak honestly and with insight and strength. Some of whom I have become friends with here at home and met up in different parts of the world. I love that. I’m grateful for it.
Because of the algorithm, I am shown accounts that I am interested in.
This was the case with Elizabeth Markevitch’s account. She shares daily about creativity. She ends with a question and sometimes I have answered it.
Such is the case when I answered the question about what is a small step I am going to take to remove some sort of block (I don’t remember the exact wording)….but I answered that I was going to prepare some fabric for both my indigo dyeing and cyanotype.
There were several “problems” that I talk about in this week’s video.
But here’s where I didn’t expect the internet to provide me with an accountability partner— a stranger responded to my comment by asking kindly: Did you do it?
So last weekend I did it!
Finally.
Why am I telling you this?
Because sometimes all it takes is someone to show interest and ask.
Accountability can come from lots of different places.
My experience is that it is always helpful when it is done with kindness. If there is any kind of shame or judgement– forget about it– I’m “outta there”…
GEMs is like that- there are lots of questions that come up on our calls and the next time we are all interested in whether the wall paper that you designed and had printed is ready to put up in the guest bathroom— there’s no timeline (that’s why I am not naming names here) – it’s just a kind, genuine interest– a cheerleading of sorts that happens…
The waitlist for GEMs is open now. Here’s the link if you would like to be the first to know when it opens for a few short days.
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