Oh, hello there! Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, happy every other holiday I've missed since my last post. I have a very good reason for my extended absence. I started a new website! The project that I have vaguely mentioned a few times here on VV launched in mid-December and I have been putting all my time and energy into it. This site has been a dream long time coming. While I love nails and nail art it is only a tiny fraction of the things that I love and the things that I am interested in talking about. My new site, The Mod Woman, is a lifestyle site dedicated to all the things that I love and I know a lot of women in my demographic (single, 30's, awesome) do as well. On my new site I get personal, and I also talk about fashion, beauty and pop culture. I simply didn't have the energy to focus on both sites at the same time and so I let this one go for a bit. I have been blogging on this site going on 7 years now. It's been a true blast. But as I look to where I see my life and blogging future I just want....more. And I am not saying all of this to say that Valiantly Varnished is going away. It isn't. I honestly don't know what will happen with this site. Right now I am playing it by ear. But I also didn't want to leave things hanging here. So in short: Valiantly Varnished is not going away. It is going on a bit of a hiatus (which it's technically already been on). The site will still be active and once I feel like everything with The Mod Woman is growing at a pace I am happy with, I will circle back to VV and see how I feel. It took me a while to get around to writing this post because I have seen so many of my favorite nail bloggers shutter their blogs and it always made me feel so sad and like the niche was shriveling up. I can't speak to whether that is true or not (though it kind of feels that way). I don't like to think of things as the end but rather the beginning of something new. I have so many dreams and plans for The Mod Woman. And while I know some of you may not find it to be your cup of tea, I hope those of you that do will join me on this new journey I'm on. It's scary! I have built up a loyal following here on VV and it's daunting to start something from scratch. But it's also really exciting and it has re-ignited a passion in me that had been a bit dormant for awhile. So my amazing VV peeps this is goodbye...for the moment (I do have some last reviews that I hopefully will be able to get up sometime soon!) Come on over to The Mod Woman and hang out with me :)
Where I've Been
