First Postpartum Haul!

This is my first time buying normal every day clothes as a Mom of 2! Here is the video I hope you enjoy it!!

Transitions are hard...

I have been struggling a lot lately, if you follow me on my youtube channel, here, and or my social medias then you know that I have been all over the place for years. There are a lot of things that I have been dealing with my personal life that make my professional life always take a back seat. I have been making excuses for myself and my lack of success in different ventures I have attempted, but in the end it is all on me. I have been half way trying to do so many different things that I get nothing. To combat this I have decided to close my in home daycare. I have always wanted to do youtube for real and I am finally ready to do that. My life is really hard right now and I can't keep up the daycare anymore. It seems to be getting in the way more than it is helping. I have been going through a really hard time in my marriage as well and that has been happening for the last 3 years. Even though I won't get into what all is occurring, it is important to mention it. I am at an extreme crossroads in my life right now and have this overwhelming urge to do what I want and go with it. I feel really good about this and I know I can make this work. This is my first video on my new youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3WqUXCTZJY Go check it out and subscribe, I think you will really like my content and what I have to offer.

Closing my Etsy Shop and I had a BABY!

 

  Closing my Etsy shop was a hard decision to make, but it had to be done. There are many reasons why I closed it down, the first reason is that it wasn't working. I did everything that every blog, video, and email newsletter told me to do to succeed. It had been 2 years of me doing my best with the time and attention I have to give to it. So I made my Amazon Handmade shop and closed down my Etsy. Amazon is less about the seller and more about a good price, so it works for me and my limited time and attention. I make my product, take photos, list it, and forget about it until it sells. I like that and with an almost 2 year old, a 3 week old, and an in home daycare that is what I need. I also sell out of two boutiques here in North Carolina, but dropping off inventory and getting a check every month works for me as well.

Aava

     I figured now is as good a time as any to announce that I had a baby!! She is 3 weeks old and her name is Rheina. She is a beautiful and sweet baby girl and we couldn't be happier with our new addition. Aava, my almost 2 year old, is doing amazing with her. She is gentle, sweet and hasn't been jealous or rough with her. I feel so happy and grateful for my life. I have never really touched on my marriage or anything about my husband in fact, but we are so happy with our family and we are really loving life right now. It has been a difficult adjustment for him as he is not used to having so many new responsibilities with Aava, but he is getting used to it and becoming very helpful.
     Many more updates to come in future blogs. Have a great day and I will speak to you in my next blog! Please leave a comment telling me how you handled introducing your baby to your older children, I would love to hear about it and talk.

Rheina

Link to my Amazon Handmade, I only have one product available currently as I am taking photos of my new inventory to post there over the next few days.

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I'm Scared Guys!! Adult Attention Deficit Disorder

     I am so afraid of launching this channel and still failing at it!! I have a lot riding on this succeeding. I quit my day job when my daughter was about 2 months old, so that I could pursue building up my own company. I have so much support from my husband and my family and friends and I don't want to let anyone down. I especially don't want to let myself down. I am mostly afraid that my AADD, (Adult Attention Deficit Disorder), brain will stop me from doing my best. I am not sure if I really have AADD or what, but it sure feels like it and it has my whole life. Struggling with the idea of this just being a procrastination technique I use on myself or if it really is AADD. Either way, I would like to learn to rise above it and train myself to be more productive without seeking medicine. I would love to get advice from any of you that suffer from this or if you think it is just me getting in my own way!! Haha, because I myself am not sure. That is where I will leave you, don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube Channel and follow me on my social media platforms if you want to hang out with my throughout the day! Link as always are on the side bars!

Relaunching my YouTube Channel?

Relaunching my YouTube Channel?

Since I gave birth to my daughter last Fall, I have been toying with the idea of relaunching my youtube channel. It has been the last 6 months or so that I have actually been filming and getting ready for it. My channel has never been a consistent flow of videos. I have never fully committed to it and because of this, it has never really gotten anywhere. Moving in the direction of true business ownership and making a living on my terms means pulling in income for solid places. I am working everyday without fail on my Etsy business and now it is time to couple that with my youtube channel. 

The first step in doing this was letting go of my MCN, which is a Multi-Channel-Network. This network was StyleHaul and I think I was just too small only having 2,000 subscribers for them to be able to further it at all. That and the fact that I have always been so inconsistent means it made no sense for them to take 30% of my earnings when they were abysmal at best. 

Next step in my relaunch was to assign a freaking point to my channel and what I offer to my viewers. This will become the driving force behind my channel and it's sustainability. This point is of course my Etsy Shop. Nothing else has ever had me as motivated to succeed as this business and why mess with what I am already doing. It makes sense to expand on it rather than trying to make multiple ideas happen all at once. 

Now, what are my plans moving forward? 

Share my shop items.

Shop Updates.

Business updates as well as major milestones.

Shop Vlogs.

Etsy will not be the only thing on my channel, but it is going to be the headliner. 

My channel relaunch is scheduled for my birthday, September 23rd this year. 

I will be turning 26 and want my channel to move forward with me through this new chapter in my life. 

So don't miss a second of it. 

Subscribe to both my blog here, and my YouTube Channel here.

All of my Social Media Link are on the right!!!

Thanks for reading,

-Alexandra