I made up this cute little tin up to summarize the month of January. You can see it here on 2 peas. Speaking of two peas I was going to go on a little rant about that, so okay I will…
      I’ve been thinking a lot lately about praise, exposure, feedback, being liked, liking what I do and a variety of things that have brought me through the following thought pattern. First I began posting on 2 peas again, like layouts and stuff. Things that were totally different from one another, or so I thought. I then proceeded to get next to no feedback, mostly annoying me because I really liked my pieces. From that I went onto think about why I liked getting praise at all, most things you do in life don’t receive praise, but you do get feedback. I like the idea of feedback and a conversation between a work and the audience. Many of you know that I was an Art Major in college and thus participated in many a critique in my day. And yes one did make me cry (“It just seems like you don’t give a fuck about your work Amber.” “Excuse me but I do give a fuck.” Class proceeds to laugh and I proceed to cry). So after all that I find that I miss it, like miss really getting feedback, do this, try this, change that color. But I don’t think that’s what I’m really looking for in two peas. I find myself just wanting to be liked. Not just for me, but for Ribbon Jar, like I want people to see that I am a creative good person. I want people to see all the cool stuff they can do with the cool ribbon I have, so when nobody thinks my stuff is cool, I’m kinda scratching my head. Like is it really cool? Because I definitely see people who thinks somethings are nice that I would not agree with. So am I one of those people. Am I like the girls who wear ass tight jeans with wobbles going over the edge and think they look good? Am I?!?! Because like I loved this layout: