{"id":10641,"date":"2021-02-03T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/?p=10641"},"modified":"2021-03-06T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:48:54","slug":"1000-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/?p=10641","title":{"rendered":"1000 Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It\u2019s hard to believe it now but 12 months ago I was still in the \u2018thinking\/scoping\/ research phase\u2019 of Bumbumbee Creative. Or, perhaps as my sister would affectionately say, the \u2018umming and ahing\u2019 stage of Bumbumbee Creative.<\/p>\n

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I had always dreamt of having my own creative business and everyone kept saying \u2018you should sell your illustrations\u2019, but I\u2019ll be honest, I was apprehensive \u2013 I felt the fear. It\u2019s one thing to create artwork for friends and family \u2013 but quite another to create illustrations and put them \u2018out there\u2019 for people to buy. It\u2019s a little piece of yourself that you put in that artwork, so it feels raw to put it out there. I care about the quality of every single piece of work I do. Such perfectionism can actually hold you back \u2013 but but luckily the Art Teacher in me decided \u2018OK – the time is now\u2019.<\/p>\n

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I finally took my courage in both hands at the end of May 2020 and to be honest, I\u2019ve barely had a second to look back. When you consider the craziness of 2020, it was a potentially insane time to start a new venture. Which is why looking at Instagram today, I\u2019m overwhelmed with such gratitude to you all.<\/p>\n

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You see today, Bumbumbee Creative hit a mini milestone \u2013 1000 followers! I can hardly believe it to be honest and I am genuinely touched that so many of you have joined us on our journey.<\/p>\n

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Thank you SO MUCH for your support and for getting involved in everything from creating rainbows for our windows, to charity events to our local business initiatives through COVID. Thank you for sharing your milstones and magical moments with us. It’s been such an honour to create keepsakes to welcome new babies into the world or to celebrate new homes. It has been so appreciated and I get a little rush of excitement when I realise this is still just the beginning. In fact as I write, I’m planning a new collection inspired from some of our lockdown walks which I hope you’ll enjoy.<\/p>\n

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If I had any words of wisdom to impart it would have to be \u2018Feel the Fear \u2013 and do it anyway\u2019 \u2013 because let\u2019s face it \u2013 none of us know what tomorrow will bring. I certainly didn\u2019t expect to wake up to 1000 Followers on Insta !!<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to believe it now but 12 months ago I was still in the \u2018thinking\/scoping\/ research phase\u2019 of Bumbumbee Creative. Or, perhaps as my sister would affectionately say, the \u2018umming and ahing\u2019 stage of Bumbumbee Creative. I had always dreamt of having my own creative business and everyone kept saying \u2018you should sell your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-hive-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10641"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11119,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions\/11119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbeecreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}