Here's To A Year, A Day Late

I wrote my very first blog post one year ago yesterday. I planned to have a little shin dig with a bunch of giveaways and some other fun stuff yesterday. In light of all that has happened over the last 3 days, that was just not possible.

I feel that I have come a very long way since that first post last year. I have also went in a completely different direction.

I started my blog ShimmerMeBlue on December 26th, 2008 to help promote my Etsy shop and to hopefully help me grow my business. While I have seen a little bit of action because of it, I honestly don't think it helped a whole lot. Maybe I didn't give enough though too. We'll never know. I can just only try to make this year a better one.

In March I took my blog into a whole new direction with reviews. Soon after, I decided to launch a new blog dedicated to my personal life and reviews. That's when Outnumbered 3 to 1 was born. I officially launched it on May 11th of 2009 with a pretty big event. It has been rapidly growing since thanks to all of the hard work I have put into it and all of the wonderful companies I have worked with to sponsor reviews and giveaways. I couldn't have done this all alone. I have also had support from some wonderful people and have learned from quite a few of them. My Skype girls {you know who you are!} are one of the best support groups I've had and I don't think they even realize how much they have helped me in the last few months. Of course I could not forget about all of you wonderful people that come by to read my blogs. Without you, I wouldn't even write a blog. What would I get out of being the only reader??? LOL.

I wanted to make this post into so much more, but I am just completely exhausted. My mind is not able to function at the normal rate, and I just cannot find the words to say. Me speechless, what a joke, right!

In closing, I am looking forward to this next year of blogging and I hope to continue to grow. Not just in my blogs, but in every aspect of my life. I need to learn to give my all in everything this year, and maybe by this time next year I will have achieved everything I hope to.

I do have big plans for ShimmerMeBlue as well. I plan to keep myself very busy creating new designs and running giveaways and other great promotions on the blog. So you will finally start to see some new content. It's all going to take a bit while I learn to balance my family, blogging, jewelry making and everything else. Just bear with me!