Sometime overnight the view count on this blog rolled over the 2.5 million mark.
Now I don’t actually believe that this count is accurate. I suspect some data mining going on, given how the numbers of views have spiked recently. I mean, yes, I have a solid following, but thousands per day? Probably not.
However, the numbers are there, proof of…something…I guess.
Proof that I have written a LOT of posts? Proof that some of them have resonated? Proof that even my very old posts are still getting read? Proof that I can’t shut up? Well, I doubt there is any argument there!
About a year or so ago, I got an email from someone who had seen my page view numbers and offered to pay me to promote their client’s products on my blog. They called me an ‘influencer’.
I literally laughed right out loud.
If I *were* an influencer, all y’all would be sampling before jumping into a big project, *including the wet finishing*. You’d all be working ergonomically. You’d all be digging deep into the craft, just because it’s so interesting to discover all the ways ‘it depends’.
But people get to choose what they do and how they do it. MY way may not be the BEST way for someone else.
So I try to educate. I try to do it with clarity, and perhaps, even, a soupçon of humour. I try to give as accurate a version of what is happening in the loom that I can manage. I try to encourage and support people who want to know more. Who come to me with an open mind. Or at least having thought the process through, ask for clarification for a specific variable. Because it depends! And the life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Anyway, happy 2.5M day to me, I guess.
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PS – if you see me promoting someone else’s product? I have NOT been paid for doing so.