Part 2 of the perpetual birthday calendar video went live last night.  I’ve gotten several nice comments, mostly focused on the fact that I didn’t quit when I could have, and that I left the mistakes intact.  I didn’t think it was right for me to have a YouTube channel for persons with physical limitations and create videos where every project is perfect and easy to make.  That’s not the reality of crafting and if other crafting YouTubers were honest, they would admit that they have deleted a lot of their videos before putting them online.  Of course they do, otherwise there would be a lot more videos like mine online and I have NEVER seen one.   EVER.  I’d love to see Jennifer McGuire say something like, well here is the card I made but it failed and here’s how I corrected the problem.  We would all learn so much more from a video like that than we do from one where she shows this lovely card and talked about how she made it.  Hey, I could have deleted all of my mistakes and said that I planned on putting the ribbon on the back.  I could have, but wouldn’t.

Maybe I’m taking this honesty thing too far, but I think people want to know there is bad with the good and they also want to know they are not the only ones who make mistakes.  It’s only fair that someone show them the bad.  So here I am, bringing some bad, but more importantly, showing exactly what I did to fix it.  So if someone else has a Zutter and sees my video, they will know exactly what not to do.  I’m a trailblazer (and MacGyver.).  Who would have guessed?

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