Bookshelf update and do things you're not good at?

Happy Tuesday everyone it's not Tuesday,

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I love painting. I forgot how much because I didn't do a whole lot of it this year. I worked on a recent paint project, well I redid a slightly older paint project. I have a pretty small bookshelf and I was struggling with wanting to display some of my books prettily but not having enough room. I came up with stacking these wood crates from Michaels next to it to sort of extend the bookshelf. I wanted each crate to display a specific book or book series that I loved. Originally I had Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, and The Outsiders. I have three copies of Alice and Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh as well as a lot of merchandise that I wanted to display with it so that worked out really cool. I have a really pretty box set of the Harry Potter series and now I'm collecting the Lego figurines so that looks really cool. But I didn't have anything else to put inThe Outsiders box beside the three copies I have so it comparatively didn't look as good. I decided to switch it out for a Scooby-Doo box. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before as I'm obsessed with Scooby-Doo and I do have a collection book of Scooby-Doo stories.

I painted each crate with a corresponding theme of what it was dedicated to so I had to repaint the black and white strips of The Outsiders to a light blue and green (I might add orange flowers later) for the mystery machine. And once I did that I, of course, had to repaint all of them. Actually, I didn't repaint the Alice box because I did a blue and white for Alice's dress and I still liked it. The Winnie the Pooh box was originally yellow and white and I had been thinking about changing it to yellow and red for his shirt but I still really liked the yellow and white. I decided to compromise and do the back panel with yellow and red and left the rest of it yellow and white. When I painted the Harry Potter box I didn't really know what to do because the only theme colors where for each house but I wanted an overall theme. I ended up going with dark blue and black to do sort of a night sky effect. When I repainted it I decided to do three themes of the houses for each inside panel and I left the top and bottom dark blue. I did the back panel as blue and grey for Ravenclaw, the right panel with yellow and red for Gryffindor, and the left panel with yellow and black for Hufflepuff. I think most people would argue that the main panel should be the Gryffindor colors because Harry is the main character but I am a proud Ravenclaw, it's my favorite house, and I love Luna Lovegood so I made it the middle.

Now, what does this have to do with doing things you're not good at? Well. I'm not good at painting. Now painting crates doesn't take a lot of skills but generally speaking, I'm not a great painter. I like what I create but I know that I have very basic skills. Same with drawing. So why do I do it if I'm not very good? The answer is simple. It makes me happy. I love painting and drawing and doing other art. And I think that's more important than being good at it. You don't have to be good at your hobbies to love doing it. And I for one think it's really important to do things you love. Take this blog for another example. It's not very popular. Mostly some friends and family read it once in a while. But I love doing it. So I continue to do it.

There's my little spiel. Do what makes you happy even if you aren't great at it.

Totally Ky






P.S. Here's a post of most of my paintings if you want to check that out. And this is what my current painting set up looks like. I don't like how the third picture is looking but I'm not sure what to do about it.