Challenges

     Although it's been some time since I've renamed my YouTube channel (from simply Tammi Naumann to the spiffier title, Tammi Naumann – The Crafty Cat Lady), I am just now getting to posting blogs related to the videos I upload/publish to my channel. Forgive me for waiting so long!

     Hey! How's it going?

      Most of the videos I upload to my channel are of the crafting and mixed media variety. I also like to modify things; okay, let's call it what it is: hacking it. Lol! Sometimes, I post videos of my three cats: Stormy, Coconut, and Blue. I figure The Crafty Cat Lady was a good title for my channel's name because it's really a play on words. Crafty replaces crazy, and I do a lot of crafts. Crafty also means clever, and that is especially true when I have ideas about certain things.

      My talent for crafting comes directly from my mother. She was an excellent crafter and a hacker, of sorts. If she didn't like how something looked, she changed it, and if she couldn't do it on her own, she would convince my dad to change it. My mom would draw up the plans, and my dad would build it for her. My mom was also very good at drawing. If YouTube would've been a booming business when my mom was in full crafty swing, she probably would've had a prosperous channel, showing her viewers what she could do and how to do it.

      On April 7th of this year (2019), I finished the 100 Things Challenge (proposed by Crazy Rebecca Dances with Pitbulls) that required me to do 100 Things without spending any money on supplies (except for glue and tape, but none of that fancy stuff, like washi tape). I mainly chose the crafty/mixed media route for most of those things. I started the challenge on May 14, 2018. I did videos for all of the 100 Things. The problem I encountered was not being able to edit and upload them in a more timely manner (primarily, because of work). Now, I'm playing catch-up, trying to edit and upload the rest of the Thing videos.

      A challenge I'm working on now is to build my channel. Each video I upload is one step toward that goal. I still have a long way to go on that, but the challenge helped me a great deal. Once all of the Thing videos have been uploaded to my channel, I think I will try to upload a video every Saturday, which seems to be the best day for me to do that, whether I'm teaching during the fall and spring semesters or on break.

      Another challenge that I'm doing is not one proposed by a YouTuber. This challenge is something I need to do to help my channel grow. Thanks for watching! appears at the end of most of my videos. I don't tell my viewers to click the Subscribe button or the Notification bell. I don't suggest that they Comment, Like, or Share my videos. I want to change that; therefore, in subsequent video-recordings (after all of the Thing videos have been uploaded) I'll work on making those suggestions to my viewers. Since I'm rusty at stating that I'd like my viewers to comment, like, share, and subscribe, it's going to take me a while to remember to say all those things, so bear with me, please. While you're at it, please, comment, like, and share my videos, and don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Thank you in advance!

       My last challenge is to keep this particular blog going and to tie it in with my YouTube channel as much as possible. I promise that future entries will not be this long. I needed to talk about the challenges I've accomplished and the ones I still need to complete. Thanks for reading!