All Good Things Must Come To An End
Posted By Teeni on December 15, 2009 |
Before anyone jumps to any conclusions, I have to ask that you grab your favorite beverage and pull up a chair for this one. And please, please, read it all the way through. Thank you!!
So this post took a little longer than the couple of days I intended on taking to put together but that is because I wanted to cover a few bases and didn’t want to just throw a post together at the last minute. I figured you all deserve a little better than that.
What it all comes down to though, is that there is a definite expiration date on the Vaguetarian Tea Room. It’s not for a while, but it definitely exists. Blogs are such wonderful tools and are written for a variety of reasons. For me, the Tea Room came about as a way for me to recuperate during medical treatment and it allowed me to communicate with new friends when most of the people in my real life were working during the day. It has been very therapeutic for me. It was a fun and safe place for me to share thoughts, feelings and silly games that I otherwise would not have been able to enjoy and pass the time. Best of all, the Tea Room introduced me to the wonderful world of blogging and the amazing people that I otherwise would not have ever met. I’ve actually have gone on to meet a couple of you in real life and it was so exciting for me! I also cannot neglect to mention the bloggers that I’ve met who are no longer blogging. They made an impression on my life but had to move on for one reason or another. I still think of them fondly. And some I lost touch with only because they had a habit of changing identities/blog locations so much that I finally lost their trail. If any of you are reading this, please don’t hesitate to make yourself known again.
For now, I find myself spending more and more time away from the blogging world and doing things in real life. I know some of this is due to my schedule while I’m going to school but I also know that I have been getting involved in other activities that I love and haven’t needed the Tea Room so much. So in my case, I think that is a good thing.
I’ve always thought to myself that I would not just close up shop and disappear when the time came. I realize that my blog buddies are not just imaginary creatures whose feelings disappear when I close my notebook. I definitely won’t leave you hanging. So I’m preparing for it ahead of time. I think I’ve always known in the back of my mind that the Tea Room had an expiration date, much like so many other projects in my life. They are there for a season, and then something else takes their place. The Tea Room is one of those seasonal things to me.
Now, having said all of that, let me just stress that this is NOT, “Goodbye.” The Tea Room will most likely be closing its doors sometime in August 2010, but before then, I’ll be opening a new blog. It will not be the same type of blog as the Vaguetarian Tea Room. I may lose some of you (I hope not!!). It will center on crafts, mostly crocheted items, and will be a companion site to my Etsy shop. However, it will still have lots of fun stuff, some free patterns, some of my usual chatter that you are all used to by now, and of course, plenty of hugs for my friends. Oh, and I’ll also have several contests during the year, using some plush handmade items that I’ve made for the prizes. I’m very excited about this new endeavor and I think it will be fun to try a slightly more niche-focused blog. I will be able to blog more regularly than I do now but I will not go crazy like I did when I first started blogging. I will keep you posted on the details of the new blog as they get ironed out.
Before any of this happens though, I have some loose ends to tie up at this blog - one of which you can help me out with right now, and several which will still take some time to wind down, like my reconstruction updates and what on earth to do with my Meez (don’t get excited, dcr - I’m not talking about violence here, LOL). For now, please help me with this - just what do I do about the Blog Friendship Box? Denise has sent it on to Jessamyn at the Love This Life blog, but it seems to have become as stagnant as my blog has recently. LOL. In case she does decide to pass it on and have it continue in its travels, I’m not sure what to do about it. I don’t know if I should be taking it with me to the new blog or passing the responsibility of keeping us updated on its whereabouts to someone else? Do I have any takers or suggestions?
I have some other items to post about but I think I will put them in a separate post to come.
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