I've been making videos on YouTube!

It's been a really good week. Lots of tidying up on the allotment and in my garden, plus more fun messing about with acrylic paints and watercolours, making stacks of painty papers.

I've also been having fun making videos for YouTube. I'm still on a steep learning curve as far creating videos, getting the right length, working out lighting etc, is concerned. I've also got over my reluctance to talk to the viewer. If I stumble over my words or babble or get things wrong, then - well - it's not the end of the world, is it?

What I've learnt so far, apart from the basics of uploading a video and adding a soundtrack, is that very short videos get more views. YouTube shorts, as you probably know, are a minute or under. I posted a couple of standard videos which got hardly any views. Not that I'm expecting great numbers. I'm grateful if even a couple of people look at 'em! However, I posted one and it got 26 views. So I re-did it as a short and it's already amassed 170 views. Another I originally posted got 12 views, so I re-did that and as a short it reached 209 pairs of eyes. So I'm going to aim for a mix of short and longer formats, mainly about junk journaling, slow stitching and making fabric books. It's fun to challenge myself and do something different, even if it's a bit out of my comfort zone.

Here's a sample of what I'm up to. Hope you like it.

If you're a YouTuber or have dabbled with it in the past, please let me know if you've any tips or good advice to give. Thanks & best wishes, Val x

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