Any tips? I hate power leveling, but this is bad. My fault, no complaints, but I need help.

Charging your weapons with soul gems levels your enchanting skill. You could use a weapon with a soul trap enchantment and when you kill an enemy with that weapon it will trap their soul. Once your weapon is running out of charge, just charge it again with the soul you trapped. You can use Azura's Star as an unlimited soul gem for this. If you need a good weapon that traps souls, you can also get the Mace of Molag Bal.

Banish enchantment?

This. And if you're leveling smithing at all, instead of just vendoring the items you make that you won't use, take them up to an arcane enchanter and put a cheap o crappy enchant on them before you sell them.

I had the same problem. My last character was a mage and I thought I would try Enchanting for the first time ever in an Elder Scrolls game. Maybe I was doing something wrong but by the time I started looting stuff to disenchant (and was ablt to use the efffects to enchant with) my character's Enchant skill was so dismally far behind all that character's other skills that I lost interest in Enchanting altogether. I ended up leveling with the othert magic skills and just skipping Enchanting.

I will probably give it another go on another character, later, maybe.

With petty and common gems do water breathing, the petty does as good as grand, banish is best with stronger gems, if you don't have I think stamina drain and fear or banish undead is best, just look at which gives an item the highest price, on armor I think it's destruction&magicka

if smithing isn't your thing, hang on to all the rings and necklaces you find then enchant and sell them, they don't weigh much, so you can carry a lot of them, and they are worth decent money. If you don't need the money, you can still sell them for 0 gold after your merchant runs out of cash to increase your speechcraft.

I tend to worry less about overly efficient leveling and worry more about not neglecting it at all

I leveled most of my smithing with jewelry so enchanting fortify attributes and the like on that helped.

Go to places with lots of horkers (winterhold's coast has quite a lot of them) and do some mass slaughter. All those petty souls will level up your enchanting skill Also get azura's star for an added bonus.

Wow...my first time through I read that completely wrong.

To get to 100 in enchanting, you have to enchant 310 items. It does not matter what kind of enchantment you make. It does not matter what kind of soul gem you use. You can do it as slowly as you like, if you hate power leveling. You can do it as fast as you like. You just need the 310 soul gems.

You will make more money if you enchant weapons. Banish on iron dagger is very good.

You also get enchanting experience from recharging your weapons and staves and disenchanting stuff.

1) Make jewellery. If you can track down the spell which transmutes iron ore then you are set up perfectly. That spell book lies in the same place every game AFAIK, but ask in spoilers where it is if you don't know. But you get two gold rings per gold ingot once you've smelted it. But failing that, just enchant everything before you sell it. This current game I needed about 90 rings total, plus some other things.

2) Go raiding dwemer ruins: automatons almost always drop at least one soul gem. Sadly this means you can't start in earnest until about level 10, but it doesn't take long to get there. You can buy them, but there expensive. You can raid the hidden caravan boxes if you know where to look, as well - they usually contain a lot of gems. Buying is usually a bad way as they are pretty expensive. By the time you have the money dwemer ruins make more sense.