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Very First Post – February 2016

Oh gosh! Every Year something is happening and I barely notice the passing of my blogiversary. Maybe it was a mistake to do my first blog post in the middle of February right around Presidents Week! My first anniversary I was stranded in Maine snow on a work trip, the second I was away in California, the third I had just moved and was feeling a bit overwhelmed and this year I was back in CA!

March 2016

Anyway…I’ve been writing this blog for four years, woot woot. It began out of a love for fashion and photography and writing and “online socializing.”

April 2016

If you haven’t been visiting long, you might want to take a look at the very first blog post. And this post (the third one!) talks about a thing I did that really led me to starting this particular blog.

January 2017

I’ve had other blogs before this one…Once I Saw a Dragonfly (which started as a way to share my vintage clothing shop) and 365 Days in Islip, which morphed into 365 Days in Brooklyn when I moved, The Mother and the Girl, and 365 Days in My House – which became A Year in a Brooklyn Apartment when I moved, phew! The ebay blog/Once I Saw a Dragonfly was the first one, started in 2009. So while this blog is only four years old, I’ve been blogging one place or another for 11 years.

August 2017

When I first started Fashion Schlub, it was more as a creative outlet than anything else. I had sort of a vague sense of blogs being able to make money, but I had no idea how that happened. I thought maybe by the time I retired (which was years and years down the road at that point) it could bring in a small supplemental income for me. I’ve learned more about how all that works, though I still haven’t really pushed myself to reach out to brands for paid collaborations. In the third year I said I want to make something. And I did. It wasn’t much at all, but it was something. This year I have an amount I want to make, but it’s low.

October 2017

In the beginning, accepting paid work is weird. You’re so excited that someone’s actually offering you money to do something you already love to do…that you might make a couple mistakes along the way, when deciding what jobs to accept and which to pass on. So bear with me if some of the first things are like, “wait, what? why is she talking about that?” Hopefully as I go along I’ll get more relevant collaborations.

March 2018

Looking back, the Top 5 Posts (i.e,. most viewed) of all time were.

  1. Product Review: Fudge Violet Toning Shampoo & Conditioner – This post from 2016 always shocks me as STILL being my most viewed post EVER.
  2. Angry at Asos – The One Where Asos Breaks Up With Me
  3. Farewell My Love – The One Where I Break Up With Sugar
  4. Influencer is Not a Bad Word <- That
  5. Let Me Tell Ya ‘Bout My Best Friend – The One Where I Lost My Dear Boy Caleb 🙁

May 2018

So…four years in and I’m still loving the blog. I love the people I’ve met, the people who follow along from post to post. I love how it continually pushes me to do more, to do better, to improve my photography, my outfits. And on the topic of photography, I want to thank all the people who have taken my pictures over the years – you guys are the best!

July 2018

As a little thank you anniversary gift, I’m going to give away a $25 Amazon Gift Card – to enter, just comment on this post before 11:59pm Saturday, Feb 29. All those names will go into a drawing generator and I’ll announce the winner in this coming Monday’s (March 2) Week in Review. Fun!

March 2019

So, Happy Anniversary to Fashion Schlub…and to all of you who have given it life for the past four years!

xoxo

May 2019

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