I didn’t, at least not until people told me 😅 (and even then I have an awful lot of self doubt and criticism “what if they are just placating me, its awful garbage, look at all the glaring mistakes and stupid errors I’ve made, surely they see that…”)

I’m good, but not great, at a bunch of random things (ADHD go brrrrrr) but when I got a real obsession with wanting to learn how to craft with leather (no I don’t know how I got that into my head) I took a real shine to it, did some courses and really enjoyed it.

I started posting some of my work on Lemmy, just to get involved with some communities (shout outs to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]) as well as right here on WomensStuff in the creative Wednesday threads, and I’ve had so much positive feedback and comments on my work that I’m starting to think… maybe I’m not too bad at this after all.

I’ve started making things for people and had them tell me that I could absolutely sell my items if I wanted. I occasionally share some of my stuff with the place I buy my leather from and again, loads of positive feedback and they sometimes share my stuff on their social media.

So yeah, its not a sudden realisation, but all the positive feedback and comments have started to shed that self doubt and internal criticism and make me think that maybe there is something to what they are saying…