You know that stage when you’ve been doing a hobby five years or so, and you think you’re getting really quite good at it most of the time, then you cruise Etsy and the blogosphere and realise you’re totally not worthy?
Check out these breathtaking soaps.
Tumbled Turquoise soap by amethystsoap
Greenstone soap by savonara
Almond soap, also by savonara
And an obligatory cephalopod.
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I look at those samples and think “nice enough”. Your response of “I am not worthy” shows that you have, in fact, developed considerable expertise in soaping. The reactions would, I imagine, be reversed when it comes to knitwear.
I want to eat the third soap. But I somehow have a feeling that it doesn’t taste as good as it looks like it tastes.
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It looks like luscious fudge, doesn’t it?
Mm, there’s a point – I know enough to know I could be a whole lot better, and I can see just how great these soaps are.
I think this shifting-standards issue might explain the phenomenon of feeling like you’re not getting anywhere, while everyone else exclaims at how marvellous your stuff is.
For a fleeting moment I thought the soaps in that first photo were Faberge eggs…
I am full of admiration for anyone who can make soap – I wouldn’t have the first idea, nor, I suspect, the patience – and the pics you’ve posted of yours are amazing. But no matter how good you are at anything, there’s always someone better at it than you: I think you just have to keep on striving (well, it’s what I do, at any rate, when it’s something important to me).