Hi friends, welcome back to my channel
I'm Katie and this is Katherinethe19th.
Today on Creative Life i want to talk about
some creative things that i do just for
fun - just for fun kind of like this
hairstyle. So creativity just for fun?!
who does that?! Sometimes I feel like a
lot of the creative stuff I do because I'm
so passionate about it and I turn it into
these side projects that eventually would
want to be you know, full-time projects
or businesses - i can sometimes lose the
charm of making something just for fun.
So what do i do that's creative that I
don't put it on the Internet to try and
make a business of? Let's talk about it
First is DIY - i am like a pretty mediocre
DIY-er, but I love doing it I love
making stuff. I love like painting up
frames to hang photos in... but it's not
the kind of thing that - I've never gonna
sell anything on etsy I don't even make
really many DIY videos because I feel
like I'm not good enough at it i also
love music I don't know if you ever would have
guessed this about me but I'm like a
little bit of an amateur musician... I'm
actually very amateur musician. Since I
was pretty young I played the piano i
played guitar
viola, flute, ukulele, bass guitar, did a
little bit of percussion for a while.
Yeah and i loved it, it's so much fun and if
there's something that I still love to do -
a lot of instruments
I don't play anymore because I don't
have access to them or don't put
the time in my day to do it but I do
still play guitar fairly often and it's
just great to strum along, singing like I
just want to be in a rock band sometimes!
But I know I'm never gonna do that
because then it wouldn't be just for fun anymore.
and i'm also not that great at it - here's the real truth a lot
of these things that I do just for fun i do just
for fun because I'm not good enough at
them to do it for money.
you know I also quite like interior
design... I have a lot of fun making
things match i also like fashion in that
way I mean I used to be a lot more
complicated about my fashion and makeup
stuff... i don't know if you remember the
whole fashion blog thing I used to do.
I still find it very fun,
but now i mostly wear stripes and denim
and that's okay too! i also really like
to bake that's something that my mother
has instilled in me
she is a wonderful baker and she's
taught me about making cakes and pies
and cookies and donuts and I have a ton
of fun I love decorating cakes and
cookies but again not that great at it.
I also like to dance if you haven't
noticed that either - i'm mostly cut it
out when i accidentally get away from
myself...
it's another super fun thing to do... do you guys
dance i wanna know what you guys do just
for fun
this probably seems like a super random
video and I totally get that but i kinda
want to talk about it because im so
often focused on like prioritizing
things and optimizing things that are
creative like for business and I think
that that has its place but I don't want
to forget about doing things that are
creative just for the sake of it and not
like "oh I got to make this video really
awesome because I get more views more
subscribers potential clients" like
whatever it is it's good to keep a
part of it just for fun because I think
that's what inspires you most
so I think it's important that you
always keep some creative things that
you do just for fun so that it doesn't..
I mean people always say like "don't make
your passion into a career" because
then it's a career and it's not a passion
anymore but i think that you can like
that's ultimately my goal is to do things
that i love and you know hopefully make
some money from it but there's always
things that you love to do that should
be kept just as things that you love to
do, I think. What do you think about the
whole passion vs career- like monetizing
your hobbies like, is it good idea? do you
need that balance? but what do you feel
about that?
let me know in the comments below or you
can always let me know on Twitter
@KatieSteckly I'd love to chat with you
there
thanks so much for watching and I'll be
back at you next week with another
episode of Creative Life. Bye!