Facing Fears

posted: Monday, 14 January 2013

I am such a wimp sometimes it's annoying. I'm like an ostrich with my head in the sand but instead I'd much rather hide my head in my crochet than deal with tricky tasks but today I outdid myself with facing scary things.

Geometric Beadwork has been selling so well that I need to order a new batch but first I had the dilemma of how to correct the 3 minor errors which had cropped up (for example one photo caption said something had 8 components when it clearly has 10). I was torn between paying the fabulous page designer to correct then or girding my loins and doing it myself.

Doing it myself would mean buying fonts, installing fonts, editing the book files, making new files for the printers and so many other little tasks which seem minor but which if I made a mistake would result in me having lots of copies of a book which I had messed up- a scary prospect.

But I took a deep breathe and dove in and before I knew it all was done and the book was on its way to the printers again. And of course despite a few hairy moments it was all a lot easier than I had built it up to be and the elation of having done it myself was a delight.

Now I just need to clear some space for the new delivery...