o n e ~ y e a r

It's been a year since this blog came to be.

August twenty-second, two thousand eleven.  A day when I decided that I should start blogging again.  That I should stop wallowing and re-start.  I new that God wanted me to have a fresh start, so why not just do it?  Why not go for it?

I was hoping for all of my forty-nine hard-earned followers would come pouring back, that it would not be an issue at all.  I expected that all-or at least most-of them read my blog regularly, would notice it was gone, would find a message on some website I was on and come rushing over to follow again.

I was wrong.

It took a lot more time than I thought it would just to get to twenty followers.  I felt as if this blog was less successful than that of my first, that maybe blogging wasn't for me.  I mean, I didn't have all of those followers again, did I?

But then I noticed something.  Those first fifteen followers I got quite easily, they were my real followers.  The others probably didn't care at all.  Most of them were my close friends or old fans, but some were new.

And then, I felt more optimistic.

Being here today means so much to me.  I never got to celebrate The Petite Pencil: Snow Globes in my Wardrobe's first birthday.  Did you know that?  They were all gone just a bit before I would've been blogging for a year.  I do believe I started it in November, and it was late summertime when they were erased.

So, quite technically, I've been blogging for almost two years.  ;]

But anyways, back on subject.  I just want to thank all of my beautiful followers, all fifty-six of you.  {{GOSH GUYS I LOVE YOU.  Last time I checked I was at fifty-three!  Thanks for the Blogoversary gift!}}  I even have two followers who I look up to more than anyone else in the blogging world.  But every single one of you are AMAZING and I just want to thank you for always being there for me.

Je vous aime tous tellement. Je vous remercie pour cette belle année. Voici d'autres encore. <3

xx,

Carolyn Mary

8/22/12