Karen’s Chat about Imagination

I am an eclectic person. If I see something and it catches my imagination, I want to do it. Since I retired, it’s become more noticeably.

My go to place was YouTube where I’d spend hours researching it. I then collected everything I needed and it gave me a lot of enjoyment to make what I’d seen.

In 2021, someone gave me a huge haul of craft stuff. A lot of it I didn’t know, so again I turned to YouTube. I was amazed at all the things I could create, and couldn’t wait to get started.

The more you watch YouTube, and more recently TikTok, it streamlines your feed to show you things that may interest you. I regularly disappeared down rabbit holes and find new stuff I didn’t know existed. Over time, the list of what I liked doing grew even bigger.

Card making
Stamping
Die Cutting
Paper crafting, pockets, pads, bookmarks, etc
Pencil drawing,
Knitting
Crochet
Writing
Cross Stitch
Reading
Junk Journals
Bullet Journals
Reading Journals
Graphic and video making
Glue books
Digital drawing

One important thing I learnt, which may surprise you, is that you need imagination, and I don’t have it.

I must have something to copy from which then gives me my own inspiration. But I cannot make it up for myself. I don’t have the ideas unless I’m instructed. It made my new hobbies slightly frustrating because there are so many talented people out there who able to conjure up something and just make it.

But there is one thing I can create, where my imagination literally knows no bounds, and that is writing stories.

Setting up my bullet journal for next year, I made a list of all the stories I had that need attention before I can publish. I was shocked at the length of the lists.

21 novels and novellas
83 short stories

At the moment I’m cross stitching. That has remained a constant through the years, as has reading, and writing.

I manage several Facebook pages, and groups. I write for my blog and the Norns Triad Publications one. I keep up other social media sites, and make graphics using Canva to accompany them. Now I’m an editor too, with four more books in line to work on,

Meanwhile, here are the four books I have published where I made up the stories using my own imagination.