I feel like I’ve been putting this blog post off for some time now and it really has been for no good reason. Maybe its because we’ve been in a weird quarantine time but, who knows! Even though it’s been 1 year of me blogging I still feel really odd or uncomfortable telling people that I run blog sometimes. I think it’s because it’s not what brings in a lot of money for me….YET! A lot of people would call it a hobby but ONE DAY it’ll be my full-time job! I feel like I’m able to work on it when I have time and over the last year I hadn’t had a whole lot of time with a lot of ups and downs. I know “downs” is the wrong term but what I mean is sometimes there are a lot of other things that would be considered “more important” than my blog. Thinking about it, its kinda unfair because I have huge dreams for this and always feel like blogging is so much fun. It’s always that feeling of hitting the publish button after the hundredth revision.
Also, before I go any further, shout out to my boyfriend, Randy who takes the majority of my pictures [even when he doesn’t want to] and also only yells at me for a few minutes when we have 10 packages show up to our door daily lol! He and my close friends are always there to support my wild dreams and I am so thankful to them for that.
Over the last year, I was able to go to blog conferences, meet a lot of great blogger girls, create a lot of content, and actually feel like I’ve grown in that short amount of time! With that being said, that’s why I felt the need to change my blog name from “Joy’s Not So Secret Diary” to “Styled by Coffee” because honestly, I’m a working mom, girlfriend, friend, and just generally busy person so – I run on coffee – sometimes twice a day! And not so secret diary just felt too childish [since I have matured in my blogging career] LOL.
Thankfully, I didn’t have high expectations for my first year of blogging because I know these things take time so even though there were a few months in 2019 I could’ve done better, I feel like I didn’t totally fail which I can live with. Life threw me some curveballs last year, the biggest one being losing my dad who I loved soooo much! Even still, I cry sporadically over him, he was my best friend and biggest supporter throughout my life. His life motto literally was “What Joy wants, Joy gets” LOL I was his pride and joy. He was an amazing father and loved me until his last breath. I am honestly so thankful for him because he provided me a great start in life. I’ll love him forever but I have to move on because of course, I’m crying LOL!
Anywho – I have loved learning as I go this past year in my blogging journey. I have literally started my blog from nothing and everything I’ve done I learned multiple things along the way so I am so thankful to have this opportunity to keep going. I’m sure there will be hundreds of more things that I learn this year and all the years to come!
A huge thanks to everyone for stopping by! Below is my new logo 🙂
