The Sick Chick

Welcome to TheSickChick.com, the umbrella domain for several of my websites relating to chronic illness and the various effects it can have on different parts of life.  But don’t worry, it’s not all doom and gloom, I generally try to be upbeat and positive as much as I possibly can, exploring ways to cope and heal rather than new things to whine and moan about.

Unfortunately, I am in the process of an international move and thus the launch of this site has been drastically delayed.  While there really are multiple websites hiding in here, at the moment the only two ready for the public:

The Sick Chick Crafts 2.0

When I first started my craft blog I didn’t have much of a plan, I just wanted to document the stuff I was making and dip my toe into the world of craft blogging.   It certainly was fun, but then my health journeyed in the proverbial handbasket and I had to stop writing for a while.  Now I am ready to begin again but I want to go for a richer, deeper experience.

I’ve realized that the craft community is at least as important to me as crafting itself and I really want to strengthen those ties while also trying to give back more.  So I plan to be as active as I possibly can (given some major health limitations) in discussions both here and else-net (especially Twitter where I am TheSickChick).  In addition I want to feature and interview more sick chicks and chaps who use crafting as a form a therapy to help them cope with their chronic illnesses, impairments and/or disabilities. (That’ll be in podcast form.)  I want to go to more crafty events and write up what happens there, go to more crafty stores and review their selection, try out more crafty products and tell you my thoughts on these matters.  (A small secret: some of this will be on a new site I’ve yet to announce but am launching soon.)

Inspiration is a big deal for me so I want to share where I find mine and keep telling you about new places to go that might spark off yours. Finally, I will still be documenting the things I make but I want to kick things up another notch with better writing and photography.  I hope you will join me in my progress and add constructive criticism along the way!

The Sick Chick Heals

I’ve made several attempts to keep a health blog over the years but for one reason or another they have failed.  I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, as for the first several years of my illness I couldn’t speak or write about it without getting upset.  But now I’m in a wholly different state of mind and I want to focus exclusively on getting better! This new blog will document the things I am doing to maintain the level of health I have and, more importantly, the experiments I shall undertake to see what I can do to improve it.  

More sites, including two podcasts, coming as soon as my health permits!