Not As Easy as I had hoped.

But about as easy as I expected – namely not easy at all.

I’m working on a side-hustle, trying to exploit all my hard-won knowledge surrounding cooking, baking, making YouTube videos…

I cook every day. I bake… Rarely… I make YouTube videos even more infrequently but that is more because of the astonishing amount of work that goes into producing an even half-good video rather than my inability to get things shipped out the door.

The side hustle is a series of videos on making gingerbread houses and selling templates for the houses. I don’t plan on making much money from it, but I do want to learn more about e-commerce, sales, production, that sort of thing. Photography hasn’t been that busy recently and I wanted to fill in the cracks with something a little different.

I won’t be set up for this Christmas, but that’s ok. I can only move so quickly on this project and I certainly don’t want to make too many (expensive, time consuming mistakes)

But I have made a few mistakes. It hasn’t been easy, this project. Harder than I expected, actually.

• Editing video, especially if you’re not very good at it, takes a long time.
• Being a perfectionist also slows one down, somewhat
• Learning as you go isn’t too bad unless there is a camera rolling and you say one thing and then quickly learn that it isn’t quite what you thought.
• YouTube puts videos without any context or help at the absolute bottom of the heap.
• There is a lot to learn, a lot to do and a lot to re-do and re-do yet again until it works, somewhat.
• And there is a lot more to go.

I was wondering this afternoon if it was all worthwhile. I have no idea, but so far it has been interesting, if nothing else. For now I’ll keep going.