Its been a year and a few days since I’ve started this blog(July 3rd 2017) and I’ve learned a lot.
I’ve been blogging since I was 13. I started on the now defunct Xanga and now I’m here. I feel as if I’ve always had a blog.
Now I vlog and write and do all sorts of things. I’ve also had some success and a few brands have reached out to collaborate with me(but none of them have been to my standards š).
I’ve found the months that Thrifted Luxe pulls in the most views is when I post regularly, two to three times a week. I had a month where my blog’s stats went up so dramatically I thought that if I kept it up, it could be a career!
My stamina wouldn’t let me, however. I have a bad habit of running from success whenever it comes too easily. So the blog languished a bit over the few months following that boom.
Perhaps I want to be more free, like a cat, to post whenever I want. I don’t know. I do know I enjoy blogging and lolita fashion, and vlogging, and all sorts of goofy things. I want to come back to blogging regularly but I find without internet at home, vlogging feels easier. I record a snippet here and there- I slap them together. Boom, a vlog. I convert the video, copy it to my phone and upload whenever I have Wi-Fi.
My computer loves to download updates when tethered to my phone, despite marking that it’s a metered connection. So blogging and scheduling posts on the computer is a pain. Typing on my phone(like now) leads to copious amounts of typos, not to mention that I can’t tick all the plugin boxes I’d like to get my posts juuuuusssttt right.
So I’ve been going with what has the least friction. Which is okay I guess. I just don’t like not having more say over my files on YouTube.