Hi everyone!!! Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday! I almost forgot to make my annual New Year’s post! In these posts I typically go through my goals for the new year and what goals I accomplished last year, but I didn’t really make any goals for 2021. I allowed myself to not stress over having to constantly post and so I didn’t. My blog may have suffered for it (I.e. engagement is way down) but in the great scheme of things I don’t really care LOL!

Many times I have considered just taking the whole thing down, getting rid of my domain and save the money that it takes to keep this site running, but I can’t seem to pull the trigger yet. This is not a threat or a passive aggressive move, it’s just how I feel sometimes. The cool thing about running a blog called My Xpressions means I get to express myself on it, not just through jewelry but also through non-jewelry related posts! I don’t really have any big plans for this blog, once again it’s just to try to post more and to post more content like I used to back in the early days of this blog when I used to post about my older pieces. I meant to post my Christmas themed bracelet, but once again I ran out of time. I had enough time to post about the after Christmas sale, or about my bracelet and I chose to post the sale list in order to help out my readers plan their purchases. Let me know if I should still post my Christmas themed bracelet even in the new year hehe. But getting back to my plans for this blog, unfortunately, I think the days when I used to review things are over but never say never! If I ever come by previews again and if I feel it is safe to post about them using code I will. Speaking of which, I already got to see some of the new MCU themed charms, and I do have to say they are really cute!!! Thanks to M for sending me the previews!!!

I would also like to revisit my “podcast” I haven’t done one in over a year since the app I use needs two people to make it work, so I’ve considered letting my husband come on and we can talk about silly things, this podcast doesn’t necessarily have to be jewelry centric. I mean jewelry is very visual so I don’t know how I can maintain a jewelry themed podcast so not every topic has to be about jewelry. I have some ideas on what I want to talk about but I will keep them to myself for now as sometimes I feel that once I announce things, they seem to not happen for me or someone else “gets” the same idea and executes it before I can.

As for YouTube I think I have finally run out of ideas! Last year I got really lazy and unmotivated to post regularly and so I ended up playing this weird game of catchup with me posting March content in August and so forth. I literally have maybe two more ideas on what I want to post but I have been sitting on those ideas for years now because in my mind I thought once I post these I’m officially done and out of “fresh” ideas. I can’t rely on posting collection videos as if I keep posting them, eventually my audience will grow bored of this stale content so I’m kind of at a loss for content. I haven’t done a “design a ring stack with me” in awhile so that can be fun, and I can keep posting my online catalog featuring older charms, but other than that, I’m fresh out of ideas!!

I will also continue to keep selling certain items on my Facebook selling page. It’s been awhile since I’ve sold anything, so maybe it’s time to have another sale!! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I started a Facebook selling group called Jahndra’s Jewelry, here is the link if you would like to join: Jahndra’s Jewelry | Facebook. It is open to USA residents only since the USPS right now is a royal mess and I do not feel comfortable shipping internationally. I have a package right now that was sent priority overseas. It should’ve arrived in two weeks, I sent it on 12/9/21 and the person has yet to receive it.

Other than that, I do not have any new plans for my blog. I hope to be motivated enough this year to post more regularly, and I greatly appreciate all of you who still read my posts, who still comment and who are still supporting a small time blogger like myself. Thank you so so so much!! Here’s to a better year than 2020 and 2021!