Warm, fuzzy feelings/Scared, worry feelings

Still working on that cheesecake post... I think I over think things and that long post (and the unpublished ones) is evidence of that.

However! Progress:
Last weekend, I made some cookies as a present for a friend. I saved a couple extra for a few (select) people at work. One of them was for a lady who works in our division's IT team, who, ever since she tried my banana bread several years ago, has been saying that I really need to have my own business. (A couple times she was like, I will help front some money for you. And I was like, eeeep! Um... um... thanks?)

I bring a lot of treats to the office and as a result, lots of people have told me that I need to open up a bakery. Most of the time they're like, what are you doing HERE instead of baking full time‽ (That interobang was for my friend, Ashes.) A couple people in our Communications team have even said they would help set up a webpage for it. I feel like I'm bragging. Sorry...

It's so nice to know that people have so much confidence in my abilities... but the thing is that sometimes I don't get it. It doesn't sink in.
Sometimes I don't have confidence in myself and I get those sabotaging feelings of "well, they're just being nice; I'm not all that great."
I have this feeling for a lot of things though and I'm trying to work through it.

One of the pieces of advice that a couple people gave me is to create a portfolio, so I'm going start with working on that.
A week ago, I went through all my photos (there are A LOT of them) and pulled out the ones that are of things that I've baked. They include final products, but also prep shots.
Just yesterday, I finished uploading all of them up onto my Google+ photo albums, separated by recipe. (They're un-shared right now.)
I was mostly doing that so that I could have them on hand and be able to easily insert them into blog posts (that I will write. Eventually.).*

So today I'm going to pull out the best pics of the final products of each recipe and put into a separate portfolio album which I will make public.

One step at a time.


*Hmm... I wasn't sure how to work out the periods there. I just looked up a bunch of websites and there doesn't seem to be a consensus. It looks weird. OH WELL.